Machado de Assis, Blackness, and the Americas
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
SUNY series, Afro-Latinx Futures
ISBN-10
1438498810
ISBN-13
9781438498812
Publisher
State University of New York Press
Imprint
State University of New York Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 1st, 2024
Print length
210 Pages
Weight
456 grams
Dimensions
23.60 x 16.00 x 1.80 cms
Product Classification:
Literature: history & criticismHistory of the AmericasEthnic studies
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Examines the reception of Brazils 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 (18391908) 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.
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