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.

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Publisher

SUNY Press

Year

2024

ISBN

9781438498836

Topic

Literature

Subtopic

Latin American & Caribbean Literary Criticism

Index

Literature

Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction The Complexities of Disguise: Machado de Assis and His Contemporary Moment
Chapter One Machado de Assis in Brazil, the United States, and Greater America: A Writer, a Black Writer, Or … A Genius, Our Literary Pelé?
Chapter Two Black, Then White, Then Black Again: Brazil’s Racial Politics and the Changing Face of Machado de Assis
Chapter Three “Father against Mother”: Race and/in the Reception of the Works of Machado de Assis
Chapter Four Raimundo the Obscure: Enslavement, Abolition, and the Problematics of “Uncle Tom” Agency in Machado’s Iaiá Garcia
Chapter Five Machado de Assis and the Color of Brazilian Literature in the United States
Chapter Six Black Writer, White Letters?: Machado’s Racialized Reception of Identity and Aesthetics
Chapter Seven Outsiders Within and Insiders Without: Narrating Race and Identity in Machado de Assis, Milton Hatoum, and Jeferson Tenório1
Afterword A Conversation between Friends
Contributors
Index
Back Cover