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Machado de Assis, Blackness, and the Americas
Engelsk Paperback
Machado de Assis, Blackness, and the Americas
Engelsk Paperback

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Examines the reception of Brazil''s most-canonized writer in the United States to shed light on questions of Blackness and hemispheric American experience.

Considered a genius in his own lifetime, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839–1908) is Brazil''s most canonized writer. Yet, he remains a contested and even enigmatic figure to readers in Brazil and abroad, his relative silence on slavery leaving him vulnerable to charges of aspirations to whiteness. Machado de Assis, Blackness, and the Americas reconsiders this issue by exploring how his prose fiction has been received in the United States. In seven original essays, contributors re-examine his novels and short stories, as well as photographs of the writer, in order to better understand the strategies he employed to navigate Brazil''s literary scene as a man of African descent. Framed by a contextualizing introduction and an afterword in the form of a conversation between the editors, the volume speaks to and with our own historical moment and the realities of Black lives in the Americas over the course of the last two centuries.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
210
ISBN-13:
9781438498829
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1438498829
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
2 feb 2025
Længde:
15mm
Bredde:
151mm
Højde:
228mm
Forlag:
State University of New York Press
Oplagsdato:
2 feb 2025
Forfatter(e):
Kategori sammenhænge