Emerging Dialogues on Machado de Assis
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Erschienen am 24. Juni 2016
XXXII, 264 Seiten
978-1-137-54174-1 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
The first book-length edited collection on Machado de Assis, this volume offers essays on Machado de Assis' work that offer new critical perspectives not only Brazilian literature and history, but also to social, cultural, and political phenomena that continue to have global repercussions.
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Lamonte Aidoo is the Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Romance Studies at Duke University, USA. He is the author of Slavery Unseen: Sex, Power, and Brazil's Myth of Racial Democracy , and co-editor of Lima Barreto: New Critical Perspectives .
Daniel F. Silva is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Comparative Literature at Middlebury College, USA. He is the author of Subjectivity and the Reproduction of Imperial Power: Empire's Individuals and co-editor of Lima Barreto: New Critical Perspectives .Inhalt
Foreword: Machado de Assis: the Brazilian Master Then and Now Nelson H. Vieira.- Introduction: Lamonte Aidoo and Daniel F. Silva.- Part I: Situating Machado de Assis in History, Literature, and Philosophy.- 1 Machado de Assis: Creator and Character in a Troubled Scene Lilia Moritz Schwarcz.- 2 Machado de Assis and Realism: A Literary Genealogy Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht.- 3 Machado de Assis and Pascal Pedro Meira Monteiro.- Part II: Machado on Race, Identity, and Society.- 4 Machado de Assis: From "Tragic Mulatto" to Human Tragicomedy G. Reginald Daniel.- 5 "Father Versus Mother": Slavery and its Apparatuses Fernando Rocha.- 6 The "Chinese Question" in Machado's Journalism Sonia Roncador.- Part III: Women in Machado's Work.- 7 Writing Womanhood in the New Brazil: Machado's
Lição de Botânica
Earl E. Fitz.- 8 Curiosity: Undecidability and Gender in
Dom Casmurro
Marta Peixoto.- Part IV: Machado on Masculinity and Queer Relations.- 9 Machado's Wounded Males Luiz Fernando Valente.- 10 Homoaffectivity Exemplified in
Dom Casmurro
Camilo Gomides.- 11 Masculinity and Matrimonial Secrets in
Dom Casmurro
Richard Miskolci.- Part V: Machado, Allegory, and the Narration of Violence.- 12 Machado's Tales of the Fantastic: Allegory and the Macabre M. Elizabeth Ginway.- 13 Machado de Assis and the Secret Heart of Literature Paulo Moreira.- 14 Framing Violence: Narrator and Reader in "Father versus Mother" Giulia Ricco.
