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The black butterfly : Brazilian slavery and the literary imagination /

"The Black Butterfly focuses on the slavery writings of three of Brazil's literary giants--Machado de Assis, Castro Alves, and Euclides da Cunha. These authors wrote in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as Brazil moved into and then through the 1888 abolition of slavery. A...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wood, Marcus (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2019.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Intro; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; 1. Castro Alves, O Navio Negreiro, and a New Poetics of the Middle Passage; 2. Castro Alves, Voices of Africa, and the Paulo Afonso Falls: From Afro-Brazilian Monologic Propopeia to Brazilian Plantation Anti-Pastoral; 3. Obscure Agency: Machado de Assis Framing Black Servitudes; 4. "The child is father to the man": Bad Big Daddy and the Dilemmas of Planter Patriarchy in Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas; 5. Magnifying Signifying Silence: Afro-Brazilians and Slavery in Euclides da Cunha, Os Sertões
  • 6. After-Words and After-Worlds: Freyre, Llosa, Slavery, and the Cultural Inheritance of Os SertõesConclusion; Notes; Index