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Tag: Machado de Assis
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The Alienist and Other Stories of Nineteenth-Century Brazil Hackett Publishing Company March 2013 ca. 152 pages Cloth ISBN: 1-60384-853-3; 978-1-60384-853-4 Paper ISBN: 1-60384-852-5; 978-1-60384-852-7 Examination ISBN: 1-60384-852-5; 978-1-60384-852-7 Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908) Edited by: John Charles Chasteen, Patterson Distinguished Term Professor of History University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Accompanied by a thorough…
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Machado de Assis: A Literary Life Yale University Press 2015-05-26 360 pages 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 2 b/w illus. ISBN: 9780300180824 K. David Jackson, Professor of Portuguese and Director of Undergraduate Studies of Portuguese Yale University Novelist, poet, playwright, and short story writer Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839–1908) is widely regarded as Brazil’s…
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chado de Assis is among the most original creative minds in Brazils rich, four-century-long literary tradition. Miss Caldwell’s critical and biographical study explores Machado’s purpose, meaning, and artistic method in each of his nine novels, published between 1872 and 1908.
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Machado de Assis: Multiracial Identity and the Brazilian Novelist by G. Reginald Daniel (review) Hispanic Review Volume 82, Number 1, Winter 2014 pages 116-119 DOI: 10.1353/hir.2014.0008 Mércia Santana Flannery, Lecturer of Portuguese Romance Languages Department University of Pennsylvania G. Reginald Daniel, Machado de Assis: Multiracial Identity and the Brazilian Novelist, 336 pages, hardcover ISBN: 978-0-271-05246-5.…
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Whiter Shades of Pale: “Coloring In” Machado de Assis and Race in Contemporary Brazil Latin American Research Review Volume 48, Number 3 (2013) pages 3-24 DOI: 10.1353/lar.2013.0046 Alex Flynn, Lecturer in Anthropology Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom Elena Calvo-González, Professor of Anthropology Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil Marcelo Mendes de Souza Department of Comparative Literature…
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Notwithstanding the long-held belief that Machado sought to at best to camouflage and at worst deny being a mulatto, I contend that his primary motivation was to achieve a sense of racelessness. He endeavored to go beyond the physical limitations of being a mulatto to become a “meta-mulatto,” that is, a mulatto whose writing grappled…
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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…