{"id":18391,"date":"2013-01-31T02:18:16","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T02:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=18391"},"modified":"2019-07-16T01:42:21","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T01:42:21","slug":"machado-de-assis-multiracial-identity-and-the-brazilian-novelist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=18391","title":{"rendered":"Machado de Assis: Multiracial Identity and the Brazilian Novelist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.psupress.org\/books\/titles\/978-0-271-05246-5.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Machado de Assis: Multiracial Identity and the Brazilian Novelist<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.psupress.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Penn State University Press<\/a><br \/>\n2012-05-19<br \/>\n336 pages<br \/>\n6 x 9, 1 illustration<br \/>\nHardcover ISBN: 978-0-271-05246-5<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.soc.ucsb.edu\/faculty\/g-reginald-daniel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">G. Reginald Daniel<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>University of California, Santa Barbara<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.psupress.org\/books\/titles\/978-0-271-05246-5.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.psupress.org\/images\/covers\/294wide\/978-0-271-05246-5md_294.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joaquim_Maria_Machado_de_Assis\">Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis<\/a> (1839\u20131908) was Brazil\u2019s foremost novelist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=451\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mulatto<\/a>, Machado experienced the ambiguity of racial identity throughout his life. Literary critics first interpreted Machado as an embittered misanthrope uninterested in the plight of his fellow African Brazilians. By midcentury, however, a new generation of critics asserted that Machado\u2019s writings did reveal his interest in slavery, race, and other contemporary social issues, but their interpretations went too far in the other direction. Reginald Daniel, whose expertise on Brazilian race relations gives him special insights, takes a fresh look at how Machado\u2019s life\u2014especially his experience of his own racial identity\u2014was inflected in his writings. The result is a new interpretation that sees Machado as endeavoring to transcend his racial origins by universalizing the experience of racial ambiguity and duality into a fundamental mode of human existence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839\u20131908) was Brazil\u2019s foremost novelist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As a mulatto, Machado experienced the ambiguity of racial identity throughout his life. Literary critics first interpreted Machado as an embittered misanthrope uninterested in the plight of his fellow African Brazilians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1245,11,83,21,125,1196,8,17,6940,394],"tags":[142,8370,3781,8369],"class_list":["post-18391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","category-books","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-identitydevelopment","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-slavery","category-socialscience","tag-g-reginald-daniel","tag-joaquim-machado","tag-joaquim-maria-machado-de-assis","tag-penn-state-university-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18391"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58521,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18391\/revisions\/58521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}