The Negro in Brazilian Fiction Since 1888
Author : Gregory Rabassa
Publisher :
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 49,11 MB
Release : 1974
Category : African Americans in literature
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Author : Gregory Rabassa
Publisher :
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 49,11 MB
Release : 1974
Category : African Americans in literature
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Author : Raymond S. Sayers
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 26,25 MB
Release : 1956
Category : African Americans in literature
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Author : Marcus Wood
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,3 MB
Release : 2019
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
ISBN : 9781949199031
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. Assis was Brazil's most experimental novelist; Alves was a Romantic poet with passionate liberationist politics, popularly known as "the poet of the slaves"; and da Cunha is known for the masterpiece Os Sertões (The Backlands), a work of genius that remains strangely neglected in the scholarship of transatlantic slavery. Wood finds that all three writers responded to the memory of slavery in ways that departed from their counterparts in Europe and North America, where emancipation has typically been depicted as a moment of closure. He ends by setting up a wider literary context for his core authors by introducing a comparative study of their great literary abolitionist predecessors Luís Gonzaga Pinto da Gama and Joaquim Nabuco. The Black Butterfly is a revolutionary text that insists Brazilian culture has always refused a clean break between slavery and its aftermath. Brazilian slavery thus emerges as a living legacy subject to continual renegotiation and reinvention.
Author : Antônio Olinto
Publisher :
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 13,42 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Brazilian literature
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Author : Werner Sollors
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 14,73 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780674607804
Why can a "white" woman give birth to a "black" baby, while a "black" woman can never give birth to a "white" baby in the United States? What makes racial "passing" so different from social mobility? Why are interracial and incestuous relations often confused or conflated in literature, making "miscegenation" appear as if it were incest? Werner Sollors examines these questions and others in "Neither Black nor White yet Both," a fully researched investigation of literary works that, in the past, have been read more for a black-white contrast of "either-or" than for an interracial realm of "neither, nor, both, and in-between." From the origins of the term "race" to the cultural sources of the "Tragic Mulatto," and from the calculus of color to the retellings of various plots, Sollors examines what we know about race, analyzing recurrent motifs in scientific and legal works as well as in fiction, drama, and poetry. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author : Barry DeWayne Amis
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Page : 464 pages
File Size : 26,59 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Black people
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Author : Emanuelle Oliveira
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,93 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9781557534859
In the late 1970s, Brazil was experiencing the return to democracy through a gradual political opening and the re-birth of its civil society. Writing Identity examines the intricate connections between artistic production and political action. It centers on the politics of the black movement and the literary production of a Sao Paulo-based group of Afro-Brazilian writers, the Quilombhoje. Using Pierre Bourdieu's theory of the field of cultural production, the manuscript explores the relationship between black writers and the Brazilian dominant canon, studying the reception and criticism of contemporary Afro-Brazilian literature. After the 1940s, the Brazilian literary field underwent several transformations. Literary criticism's displacement from the newspapers to the universities placed a growing emphasis on aesthetics and style. Academic critics denounced the focus on a political and racial agenda as major weaknesses of Afro-Brazilian writing, and stressed, the need for aesthetic experimentation within the literary field. Writing Identity investigates how Afro-Brazilian writers maintained strong connections to the black movement in Brazil, and yet sought to fuse a social and racial agenda with more sophisticated literary practices. As active militants in the black movement, Quilombhoje authors strove to strengthen a collective sense of black identity for Afro-Brazilians.
Author : Chicago Public Library
Publisher :
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 41,50 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Africa
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Author : Richard L. Jackson
Publisher : Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 11,25 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Literary Criticism
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Author : George Reid Andrews
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 26,22 MB
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299131043
In Buried Indians, Laurie Hovell McMillin presents the struggle of her hometown, Trempealeau, Wisconsin, to determine whether platform mounds atop Trempealeau Mountain constitute authentic Indian mounds. This dispute, as McMillin subtly demonstrates, reveals much about the attitude and interaction - past and present - between the white and Indian inhabitants of this Midwestern town. McMillin's account, rich in detail and sensitive to current political issues of American Indian interactions with the dominant European American culture, locates two opposing views: one that denies a Native American presence outright and one that asserts its long history and ruthless destruction. The highly reflective oral histories McMillin includes turn Buried Indians into an accessible, readable portrait of a uniquely American culture clash and a dramatic narrative grounded in people's genuine perceptions of what the platform mounds mean.