Machado de Assis, Blackness, and the Americas
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by Vanessa K. Valdés, Earl E. Fitz
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1438498810 | 212 Pages | PDF | 4.23 MB
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.
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