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Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908) was Brazil's foremost novelist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As a mulatto, Machado experienced the ambiguity of racial identity throughout his life. Literary critics first interpreted Machado as an embittered misanthrope uninterested in the plight of his fellow African Brazilians. By midcentury, however, a new generation of critics asserted that Machado's writings did reveal his interest in slavery, race, and other contemporary social issues, but their interpretations went too far in the other direction. G. Reginald Daniel, an expert on Brazilian race relations, takes a fresh look at how Machado's writings were inflected by his life—especially his experience of his own racial identity. The result is a new interpretation that sees Machado as endeavoring to transcend his racial origins by universalizing the experience of racial ambiguity and duality into a fundamental mode of human existence.
Contents
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Machado de Assis: The Critical Legacy
1 Neither Black nor White: The Brazilian Racial Order
2 The Mulatto Author: The Literary Canon and the Racial Contract
3 Black into White: Racial Identity and the Life of Machado de Assis
4 The Public Racial Text: Racial Identity and the Writings of the Unknown Machado
5 The Meta-Mulatto: Racial Identity and the Writings of Machado de Assis
6 The Hidden Racial Text: Racial Identity and the Writings of Machado de Assis
7 Toward Literary Independence: National Identity and the Writings of Machado de Assis
8 The Transformative Vision: Seeing with the Third Eye
9 Machado de Assis: From Romantic Realism to Impressionism
Epilogue: Machado de Assis: An Alternative Interpretation
G. Reginald Daniel with Gary L. Haddow
Notes
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