Lima Barreto (eBook, ePUB)

New Critical Perspectives
Redaktion: Aidoo, Lamonte; Silva, Daniel F.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This edited volume is a collection of twelve interdisciplinary essays from various Brazilian literary scholars, historians, and anthropologists analyzing the work of 19th- and 20th-century Afro-Brazilian writer Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto. This is the first collection to present a cohesive analysis of this writer's work in English. It is an intellectually diverse collection of essays that recover Barreto's oeuvreand consider a wide range of topics, including Barreto's treatment of race, family, class, social and gender politics of postabolition Brazil, neocolonialism, the disjuncture between urban and suburban spaces, and national identity politics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780739176139
• Artikelnr.: 40055979

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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