Emerging Dialogues On Machado De Assis

Author : Lamonte Aidoo
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137541741
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Emerging Dialogues on Machado de Assis written by Lamonte Aidoo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-06-24 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book-length edited collection on Machado de Assis, this volume offers essays on Machado de Assis' work that offer new critical perspectives not only Brazilian literature and history, but also to social, cultural, and political phenomena that continue to have global repercussions.

Author : Mario Higa
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1855663627
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Machado de Assis written by Mario Higa and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2022-12-06 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively and accessible introduction to Machado de Assis and his work

Author : Vanessa K. Valdés
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438498837
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Machado de Assis, Blackness, and the Americas written by Vanessa K. Valdés and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2024-08-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considered a genius in his own lifetime, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839–1908) is Brazil's most canonized writer. Yet, he remains a contested and even enigmatic figure to readers in Brazil and abroad, his relative silence on slavery leaving him vulnerable to charges of aspirations to whiteness. Machado de Assis, Blackness, and the Americas reconsiders this issue by exploring how his prose fiction has been received in the United States. In seven original essays, contributors re-examine his novels and short stories, as well as photographs of the writer, in order to better understand the strategies he employed to navigate Brazil's literary scene as a man of African descent. Framed by a contextualizing introduction and an afterword in the form of a conversation between the editors, the volume speaks to and with our own historical moment and the realities of Black lives in the Americas over the course of the last two centuries.

Author : Edwin Murillo
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1837720010
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Latin America and Existentialism written by Edwin Murillo and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2023-06-15 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latin America and Existentialism is a preliminary intellectual history, prioritising literature and contextualising Latin American philosophical contributions from the 1860s to the late 1930s, decades that coincide with the canon’s foundational years. This study takes a Pan-American approach to move the critical focus away from the River Plate, a region that has received some critical attention. In doing so, it focuses on existentially-neglected writers such as Brazil’s Machado de Assis and Graciliano Ramos, José Asunción Silva from Colombia, Cuba’s Enrique Labrador Ruiz, and the Chilean María Luisa Bombal. Underappreciated Latin American philosophical voices and existentialism’s canonical perspectives allow the author to discuss the many problems concerning the experiencing ‘I’ of these authors, and to consider such existential themes as ethical vacuity, forlornness, the crisis of insufficiency, the conundrum of choice, and the enigma of authentic being. The concentration on Latin America’s existentially-hued interest in the human condition is an invitation to the reader to reconsider the peripheral status in the existentialism canon.

Author : Josh Jewell
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031531345
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Economic Informality and World Literature written by Josh Jewell and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Amândio Reis
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031066812
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Short Stories, Knowledge and the Supernatural written by Amândio Reis and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-07-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book proposes a comparative approach to the supernatural short stories of Machado de Assis, Henry James and Guy de Maupassant. It offers an alternative to predominantly novel-centric and Anglo-centric perspectives on literary pre-modernism by investigating a transnational and multilingual connection between genre, theme and theory, i.e., between the modern short story, the supernatural and the problem of knowledge. Incorporating a close analysis of the literary texts into a discussion of their historical context, the book argues that Machado, James and Maupassant explore and reinvent the supernatural short story as a metafictional genre. This modernized and innovative form allows them to challenge the dichotomies and conventions of realist and supernatural fiction, inviting their past and present readers to question common assumptions on reality and literary representation.

Author : Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525506683
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas written by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of the wittiest, most playful, and . . . most alive and ageless books ever written." --Dave Eggers, The New Yorker A revelatory new translation of the playful, incomparable masterpiece of one of the greatest Black authors in the Americas A Penguin Classic The mixed-race grandson of ex-slaves, Machado de Assis is not only Brazil's most celebrated writer but also a writer of world stature, who has been championed by the likes of Philip Roth, Susan Sontag, Allen Ginsberg, John Updike, and Salman Rushdie. In his masterpiece, the 1881 novel The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas (translated also as Epitaph of a Small Winner), the ghost of a decadent and disagreeable aristocrat decides to write his memoir. He dedicates it to the worms gnawing at his corpse and tells of his failed romances and halfhearted political ambitions, serves up harebrained philosophies, and complains with gusto from the depths of his grave. Wildly imaginative, wickedly witty, and ahead of its time, the novel has been compared to the work of everyone from Cervantes to Sterne to Joyce to Nabokov to Borges to Calvino, and has influenced generations of writers around the world. This new English translation is the first to include extensive notes providing crucial historical and cultural context. Unlike other editions, it also preserves Machado's original chapter breaks--each of the novel's 160 short chapters begins on a new page--and includes excerpts from previous versions of the novel never before published in English.

Author : Bede Scott
Publisher : Postcolonialism Across the Dis
ISBN 13 : 1786941708
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Affective Disorders written by Bede Scott and published by Postcolonialism Across the Dis. This book was released on 2019 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Affective Disorders explores the significance of emotion in a range of colonial and postcolonial narratives. Through close readings of Naguib Mahfouz, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, and Upamanyu Chatterjee, among others, Bede Scott argues that literary representations of emotion need not be interpreted solely at the level of character, individual psychology, or the contingencies of plotting, but could also be related to broader sociopolitical forces.

Author : Sandra Casanova-Vizcaíno
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315307650
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Latin American Gothic in Literature and Culture written by Sandra Casanova-Vizcaíno and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the Gothic mode as it appears in the literature, visual arts, and culture of different areas of Latin America. Focusing on works from authors in Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, the Andes, Brazil, and the Southern Cone, the essays in this volume illuminate the existence of native representations of the Gothic, while also exploring the presence of universal archetypes of terror and horror. Through the analysis of global and local Gothic topics and themes, they evaluate the reality of a multifaceted territory marked by a shifting colonial and postcolonial relationship with Europe and the United States. The book asks questions such as: Is there such a thing as "Latin American Gothic" in the same sense that there is an "American Gothic" and "British Gothic"? What are the main elements that particularly characterize Latin American Gothic? How does Latin American Gothic function in the context of globalization? What do these elements represent in relation to specific national literatures? What is the relationship between the Gothic and the Postcolonial? What can Gothic criticism bring to the study of Latin American cultural manifestations and, conversely, what can these offer the Gothic? The analysis performed here reflects a body of criticism that understands the Gothic as a global phenomenon with specific manifestations in particular territories while also acknowledging the effects of "Globalgothic" on a transnational and transcultural level. Thus, the volume seeks to open new spaces and areas of scholarly research and academic discussion both regionally and globally with the presentation of a solid analysis of Latin American texts and other cultural phenomena which are manifestly related to the Gothic world.

Author : Earl E. Fitz
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813950023
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Literatures of Spanish America and Brazil written by Earl E. Fitz and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2023-08-21 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this survey of Central and South American literature, Earl E. Fitz provides the first book in English to analyze the Portuguese- and Spanish-language American canons in conjunction, uncovering valuable insights about both. Fitz works by comparisons and contrasts: the political and cultural situation at the end of the fifteenth century in Spain and Portugal; the indigenous American cultures encountered by the Spanish and Portuguese and their legacy of influence; the documented discoveries of Colón and Caminha; the colonial poetry of Mexico’s Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and Brazil’s Gregório de Matos; culminating in a meticulous evaluation of the poetry of Nicaragua’s Rubén Darío and the prose fiction of Brazil’s Machado de Assis. Fitz, an award-winning scholar of comparative literature, contends that at the end of the nineteenth century, Latin America produced two great literary revolutions, both unique in the western hemisphere, and best understood together.