Raised under the knuckles of Mistress Ignacia, the abused, dehumanised leading character in this story is a seven-year-old who, unnamed throughout the story, trusts her real name is Negrinha-a Portuguese word that means little black girl.It's December and the child has a cheerful encounter that changes her take on life.Although it was published for the first time in 1920, Negrinha is a story set some thirty years earlier. The titlecharacter was born...