Machado de Assis, Blackness, and the Americas (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781438498829)

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.

Author: Vanessa K. Vald?s
ISBN-10: 1438498829
ISBN-13: 9781438498829
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Language: English
Published: 02/02/2025
Pages: 210
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d