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--from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century"--
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Morgantown :
West Virginia University Press,
2019.
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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


