Tag: Lima Barreto

  • The Dialogue About “Racial Democracy” Among African-American and Afro-Brazilian Literatures University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 2008 262 pages Isabel Cristina Rodrigues Ferreira A dissertation submitted to the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of…

  • CLS 413: Comparative Studies in Theme: Generation, Degeneration, Miscegenation Northwestern University Winter 2012 César Braga-Pinto, Associate Professor of Brazilian Studies In this seminar we will discuss how and why late 19th-century and early 20th-century fiction often represented a crisis in models of biological reproduction. We will investigate how anxieties regarding miscegenation and degeneration impacted this…