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Emerging Dialogues on Machado de Assis

Palgrave Macmillan

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

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxii
  2. Introduction

    • Lamonte Aidoo, Daniel F. Silva
    Pages 1-10
  3. Situating Machado de Assis in History, Literature, and Philosophy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
    2. Machado de Assis and Realism: A Literary Genealogy

      • Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
      Pages 27-36
    3. Machado de Assis and Pascal

      • Pedro Meira Monteiro
      Pages 37-51
  4. Machado on Race, Identity, and Society

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 53-53
    2. “Father versus Mother”: Slavery and Its Apparatuses

      • Fernando Sousa de Rocha
      Pages 91-103
  5. Women in Machado’s Work

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 123-123
  6. Machado on Masculinity and Queer Relations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163
    2. Machado’s Wounded Males

      • Luiz Fernando Valente
      Pages 165-179
    3. Homoaffectivity Exemplified in Dom Casmurro

      • Camilo Gomides
      Pages 181-187
  7. Machado, Allegory, and the Narration of Violence

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 209-209

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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