This is the first volume of critical essays in English on the much-studied Lima Barreto. Each chapter explores not only his life and vast body of work but also the historical and societal conditions in which his literary voice emerged.
This is the first volume of critical essays in English on the much-studied Lima Barreto. Each chapter explores not only his life and vast body of work but also the historical and societal conditions in which his literary voice emerged.
Lamonte Aidoo is assistant professor of romance studies and African and African American studies at Duke University. Daniel F. Silva is assistant professor of Portuguese at Middlebury College.
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Introduction By Lamonte Aidoo and Daniel F. Silva Chapter 1: Lima Barreto and Gender: An Inter-American Perspective By Earl E. Fitz Chapter 2: Race and Sex in Lima Barreto and Charles Chesnutt: a Comparative Politics Between Brazil and the United States By Renata R. M. Wasserman Chapter 3: The 'Coloniality of Power' and the Fictional Biography of an Obscure Bureaucrat in Lima Barreto's Vida e Morte de M. J. Gonzaga de Sá By Nelson H. Vieira Chapter 4: Lima Barreto and the Mimetic Experience: Agency, Literature, and Madness in the Brazil of the First Republic By Lilia Moritz Schwarcz Chapter 5: A Pan-African Activist at the Turn of the 20th Century: Lima Barreto and the Denunciation of Racial Prejudice in Brazil and the United States By Emanuelle K. F. Oliveira Chapter 6: Climbing the Social Ladder as a Tragic Farce in Brazil at the Turn of the Century in Machado de Assis' "The Nurse," Lima Barreto's "The Man Who Spoke Javanese," and Monteiro Lobato's "The Funnyman Who Repented" By Paulo da-Luz-Moreira Chapter 7: Extraordinary Delusions: the Madness of Capital in Lima Barreto's writings By Vivaldo A. Santos Chapter 8: "Fatally Condemned to Wander": Lima Barreto's Nonfiction Journalism and Testimonials By Robert Anderson Chapter 9: From Synthesis to Difference: Lima Barreto's Parodic Ufanismo By Luiz Fernando Valente Chapter 10: Reading Lima Barreto against Lima Barreto By Mário Higa Chapter 11: Freyreans, Marxists, and the "Labyrinth of Nations": Lima Barreto and His Critics By Marc A. Hertzman Chapter 12: Men in their Own Wor(l)ds: Lima Barreto and the Narration of Masculinity By Talia Gúzman-González
Introduction By Lamonte Aidoo and Daniel F. Silva Chapter 1: Lima Barreto and Gender: An Inter-American Perspective By Earl E. Fitz Chapter 2: Race and Sex in Lima Barreto and Charles Chesnutt: a Comparative Politics Between Brazil and the United States By Renata R. M. Wasserman Chapter 3: The 'Coloniality of Power' and the Fictional Biography of an Obscure Bureaucrat in Lima Barreto's Vida e Morte de M. J. Gonzaga de Sá By Nelson H. Vieira Chapter 4: Lima Barreto and the Mimetic Experience: Agency, Literature, and Madness in the Brazil of the First Republic By Lilia Moritz Schwarcz Chapter 5: A Pan-African Activist at the Turn of the 20th Century: Lima Barreto and the Denunciation of Racial Prejudice in Brazil and the United States By Emanuelle K. F. Oliveira Chapter 6: Climbing the Social Ladder as a Tragic Farce in Brazil at the Turn of the Century in Machado de Assis' "The Nurse," Lima Barreto's "The Man Who Spoke Javanese," and Monteiro Lobato's "The Funnyman Who Repented" By Paulo da-Luz-Moreira Chapter 7: Extraordinary Delusions: the Madness of Capital in Lima Barreto's writings By Vivaldo A. Santos Chapter 8: "Fatally Condemned to Wander": Lima Barreto's Nonfiction Journalism and Testimonials By Robert Anderson Chapter 9: From Synthesis to Difference: Lima Barreto's Parodic Ufanismo By Luiz Fernando Valente Chapter 10: Reading Lima Barreto against Lima Barreto By Mário Higa Chapter 11: Freyreans, Marxists, and the "Labyrinth of Nations": Lima Barreto and His Critics By Marc A. Hertzman Chapter 12: Men in their Own Wor(l)ds: Lima Barreto and the Narration of Masculinity By Talia Gúzman-González
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