Lima Barreto (eBook, PDF)

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

• Format: PDF

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: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216311850
• Artikelnr.: 74398996

Autorenporträt

Edited by Lamonte Aidoo and Daniel F. Silva - Contributions by Earl E. Fitz; Renata R. M. Wasserman; Nelson H. Vieira; Lilia Moritz Schwarcz; Emanuelle K. F. Oliveira; Paulo da-Luz-Moreira; Vivaldo A. Santos; Robert Anderson; Luiz Fernando Valente; Mário

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