ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on concepts discussed in preceding chapters of this book. The book explores and explains the subjective crisis that many of Clarice Lispector's characters undergo in her novels. It suggests the subjective crisis was connected to the subject's need to construct a personal identity within the historical and ideological context of modern Brazil. The chapter proposes the unique and persistent subjective investigations that Lispector's characters undertake do not isolate them from their national environment but, on the contrary, dramatize their intimate experience of the nation and their attempts to construct their subjectivities within it. It shows how the concept of performativity explains the experience of passing, presenting race as a nuanced notion; which varies depending on how the body is performed. In the case of A maca no escuro the protagonist Martim seems to choose a position of voluntary exclusion from the national environment.
