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Emerging Dialogues on Machado de Assis

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  • © 2016

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Part of the book series: New Directions in Latino American Cultures (NDLAC)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Situating Machado de Assis in History, Literature, and Philosophy

  2. Machado on Race, Identity, and Society

  3. Machado on Masculinity and Queer Relations

  4. Machado, Allegory, and the Narration of Violence

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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Duke University, Durham, USA

    Lamonte Aidoo

  • Middlebury College, Middlebury, USA

    Daniel F. Silva

About the editors

Lamonte Aidoo is the Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Romance Studies at Duke University, USA. He is the author of Slavery Unseen: Sex, Power, and Brazil’s Myth of Racial Democracy, and co-editor of Lima Barreto: New Critical Perspectives


Daniel F. Silva is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Comparative Literature at Middlebury College, USA. He is the author of Subjectivity and the Reproduction of Imperial Power: Empire’s Individuals and co-editor of Lima Barreto: New Critical Perspectives.


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