Emerging dialogues on Machado de Assis. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Lamonte Aidoo, Daniel F. Silva.
• Editors: Aidoo, Lamonte, 1986-; Silva, Daniel F, 1985-
• Contents: Foreword: Machado de Assis: the Brazilian Master Then and Now Nelson H. Vieira.- Introduction: Lamonte Aidoo and Daniel F. Silva.- Part I: Situating Machado de Assis in History, Literature, and Philosophy.- 1 Machado de Assis: Creator and Character in a Troubled Scene Lilia Moritz Schwarcz.- 2 Machado de Assis and Realism: A Literary Genealogy Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht.- 3 Machado de Assis and Pascal Pedro Meira Monteiro.- Part II: Machado on Race, Identity, and Society.- 4 Machado de Assis: From 'Tragic Mulatto' to Human Tragicomedy G. Reginald Daniel.- 5 'Father Versus Mother': Slavery and its Apparatuses Fernando Rocha.- 6 The 'Chinese Question' in Machado's Journalism Sonia Roncador.- Part III: Women in Machado's Work.- 7 Writing Womanhood in the New Brazil: Machado's Lição de Botânica Earl E. Fitz.- 8 Curiosity: Undecidability and Gender in Dom Casmurro Marta Peixoto.- Part IV: Machado on Masculinity and Queer Relations.- 9 Machado's Wounded Males Luiz Fernando Valente.- 10 Homoaffectivity Exemplified in Dom Casmurro Camilo Gomides.- 11 Masculinity and Matrimonial Secrets in Dom Casmurro Richard Miskolci.- Part V: Machado, Allegory, and the Narration of Violence.- 12 Machado's Tales of the Fantastic: Allegory and the Macabre M. Elizabeth Ginway.- 13 Machado de Assis and the Secret Heart of Literature Paulo Moreira.- 14 Framing Violence: Narrator and Reader in 'Father versus Mother' Giulia Ricco.
• Publisher Details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2016
• Copyright Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (264 pages)
• Subjects: 869.3; Criticism and interpretation
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137541741
• Related ISBNs: 9781137543431
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