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.
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Part I Situating Machado de Assis in History, Literature, and Philosophy |
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2 Machado de Assis: Creator and Character in a Troubled Scene |
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13 | (14) |
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3 Machado de Assis and Realism: A Literary Genealogy |
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27 | (10) |
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4 Machado de Assis and Pascal |
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37 | (16) |
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Part II Machado on Race, Identity, and Society |
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53 | (70) |
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5 The Legacy of Slavery: Tales of Gender and Racial Violence in Machado de Assis |
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55 | (16) |
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6 Machado de Assis: From "Tragic Mulatto" to Human Tragicomedy |
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71 | (20) |
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7 "Father versus Mother": Slavery and Its Apparatuses |
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91 | (14) |
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8 The "Chinese Question" in Machado's Journalism |
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105 | (18) |
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Part III Women in Machado's Work |
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123 | (40) |
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9 Writing Womanhood in the New Brazil: Machado's Licao de Botanica |
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125 | (24) |
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10 Capitu's Curiosity: Undecidability and Questions of Gender in Dom Casmurro |
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149 | (14) |
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Part IV Machado on Masculinity and Queer Relations |
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163 | (46) |
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11 Machado's Wounded Males |
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165 | (16) |
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12 Homoaffectivity Exemplified in Dom Casmurro |
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181 | (8) |
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13 Masculinity and Matrimonial Secrets in Dom Casmurro |
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189 | (20) |
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Part V Machado, Allegory, and the Narration of Violence |
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209 | (42) |
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14 Machado's Tales of the Fantastic: Allegory and the Macabre |
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211 | (12) |
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15 Machado de Assis and the Secret Heart of Literature |
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223 | (16) |
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16 Framing Violence: Narrator and Reader in "Pai contra mae" |
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239 | (12) |
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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.
