Category: Literary/Artistic Criticism

  • Machado de Assis, the Brazilian Pyrrhonian Purdue University Press 1994-06-01 248 pages 6 x 9 Hardback ISBN 10: 1557530513; ISBN 13: 9781557530516 eBook ISBN 10: 1612490948; ISBN 13: 9781612490946 José Raimundo Maia Neto, Professor of the Philosophy Federal University of Minas Gerais Machado de Assis, the Brazilian Pyrrhonian examines the towering figure of nineteenth century…

  • Rewriting of the past and paradigm of the feminine in “The Quadroons of New Orleans” by Sidonie de La Houssaye Pennsylvania State University 2008 231 pages Publication Number: AAT 3336040 ISBN: 9780549923022 Christian Hommel Les Quarteronnes de la Nouvelle-Orléans is a novel written by a Creole women of the white francophone aristocracy, and appeard as…

  • Racial Paradise or Run-around? Afro-North American Views of Race Relations in Brazil American Studies Volume 46, Number 1 (Spring 2005) pages 43-60 David J. Hellwig, Professor Emeritus of Interdisciplinary Studies St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota North American students of slavery and race relations have long used comparative approaches to examine the troubling phenomena…

  • Resistance, Silence, and Placées: Charles Bon’s Octoroon Mistress and Louisa Picquet American Literature Volume 79, Number 1 (March 2007) pages 85-112 DOI: 10.1215/00029831-2006-072 Stephanie Li, Assistant Professor of English University of Rochester In 1850, Mary Walker, a free woman of color, filed a petition in the Fourth District Court of New Orleans to enslave herself…

  • Miscegenation, Racialization and Gender (Mestiçagem, Racialização e Gênero) Sociologias Number 21 (Porto Alegre Jan./June 2009) pages 94-120 DOI: 10.1590/S1517-45222009000100006 ISSN 1517-4522 Rosely Gomes Costa, Pós-doutorado em Ciências Sociais pela Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) e pela Universidade Autônoma de Barcelona (Espanha) This paper reflects on the paradox of a mestizo Brazil and the close relationship…

  • Ciphering Nations: Performing Identity in Brazil and the Caribbean   University of Minnesota June 2011 197 pages Naomi Pueo Wood, Assistant Professor of Spanish The Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF…

  • Sigmund Feist and the End of the Idea of the Jews as a Mixed Race Shpilman Institute for Photography Blog 2011-12-04 Amos Morris Reich, Senior Lecturer of Jewish History University of Haifa Sigmnud Feist (1865-1943) is mostly remembered because of the orphanage for Jewish children that he directed in Berlin, as well as for his…

  • Anglo-Indian Identity, Knowledge, and Power: Western Ballroom Music in Lucknow The Drama Review Volume 48, Number 4 (Winter 2004) Pages 167-182 DOI: 10.1162/1054204042442053 Dr. Bradley Shope, Assistant Professor of Music Texas A&M Universtity, Corpus Christi From the 1920s to the 1940s, Anglo-Indians relished Western popular music. For this marginalized group, this music was a way…

  • Through newly unearthed texts virtually unknown in Andean studies, “Indians and Mestizos in the “Lettered City”” highlights the Andean intellectual tradition of writing in their long-term struggle for social empowerment and questions the previous understanding of the “lettered city” as a privileged space populated solely by colonial elites.

  • The Inner Life of Mestizo Nationalism University of Minnesota Press 2008 272 pages 6 x 9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-5005-7 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8166-5004-0 Estelle Tarica, Associate Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture University of California, Berkeley The only recent English-language work on Spanish-American indigenismo from a literary perspective, Estelle Tarica’s work shows how modern Mexican…