Name: Emerging Dialogues on Machado de Assis By Lamonte Aidoo
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Emerging Dialogues on Machado de Assis by Lamonte Aidoo

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.

About Lamonte Aidoo

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 Brazils 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: Empires Individuals and co-editor of Lima Barreto: New Critical Perspectives.

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 Machados Journalism Sonia Roncador.- Part III: Women in Machados Work.- 7 Writing Womanhood in the New Brazil: Machados Licao de Botanica Earl E. Fitz.- 8 Curiosity: Undecidability and Gender in Dom Casmurro Marta Peixoto.- Part IV: Machado on Masculinity and Queer Relations.- 9 Machados Wounded MalesLuiz 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 Machados 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.

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Title

Emerging Dialogues on Machado de Assis by Lamonte Aidoo

Author

Lamonte Aidoo

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New Directions in Latino American Cultures

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Hardback

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Palgrave Macmillan

Year published

2016-06-24

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264

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Emerging Dialogues on Machado de Assis Lamonte Aidoo

Emerging Dialogues on Machado de Assis by Lamonte Aidoo

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Emerging Dialogues on Machado de Assis by Lamonte Aidoo

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