Chica da Silva : A Brazilian Slave of the Eighteenth Century

Name: Chica da Silva
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521884655
Price: 8850 KES
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ISBN: 9780521884655

by Júnia Ferreira Furtado

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Format Hardback

Book Series New Approaches to the Americas

ISBN-10 0521884659

ISBN-13 9780521884655

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Dec 8th, 2008

Print length 348 Pages

Weight 600 grams

Dimensions 23.50 x 16.00 x 2.60 cms

Product Classification: History of the Americas Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 Social & cultural history Slavery & abolition of slavery History History of the Americas Social and cultural history Slavery, enslaved persons and abolition of slavery

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A fascinating study of Chica da Silva, a freed woman of color in a Brazilian town. Her story reveals the world she inhabited, and the myths that were later created around her. She came to symbolise both racial democracy, and the stereotypes attributed to the Brazilian black or mulatta female.

Júnia Ferreira Furtado offers a fascinating study of the world of a freed woman of color in a small Brazilian town where itinerant merchants, former slaves, Portuguese administrators and concubines interact across social and cultural lines. The child of an African slave and a Brazilian military nobleman of Portuguese descent, Chica da Silva won her freedom using social and matrimonial strategies. But her story is not merely the personal history of a woman, or the social history of a colonial Brazilian town. Rather, it provides a historical perspective on the cultural universe she inhabited, and the myths that were created around her in subsequent centuries, as Chica de Silva came to symbolize both an example of racial democracy and the stereotype of licentiousness and sensuality always attributed to the black or mulatta female in the Brazilian popular imagination.

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