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Examines the reception of Brazil's most-canonized writer in the United States to shed light on questions of Blackness and hemispheric American experience.
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.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Complexities of Disguise: Machado de Assis and His Contemporary Moment
Vanessa K. Valdés and Earl E. Fitz
1. Machado de Assis in Brazil, the United States, and Greater America: A Writer, a Black Writer, Or... A Genius, Our Literary Pelé?
Earl E. Fitz
2. Black, Then White, Then Black Again: Brazil's Racial Politics and the Changing Face of Machado de Assis
Regina Castro McGowan
3. "Father against Mother": Race and/in the Reception of the Works of Machado de Assis
Paulo Dutra
4. Raimundo the Obscure: Enslavement, Abolition, and the Problematics of "Uncle Tom" Agency in Machado's Iaiá Garcia
Niyi Afolabi
5. Machado de Assis and the Color of Brazilian Literature in the United States
Benjamin Legg
6. Black Writer, White Letters? Machado's Racialized Reception of Identity and Aesthetics
Daniel F. Silva
7. Outsiders Within and Insiders Without: Narrating Race and Identity in Machado de Assis, Milton Hatoum, and Jeferson Tenório
David M. Mittelman
Afterword: A Conversation between Friends
Vanessa K. Valdés and Earl E. Fitz
Contributors
Index
