{"id":29690,"date":"2013-03-19T20:47:19","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T20:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=29690"},"modified":"2013-03-19T21:31:29","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T21:31:29","slug":"miscegenacion-en-o-cortico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=29690","title":{"rendered":"(Miscege)naci\u00f3n en O Corti\u00e7o"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/trans.revues.org\/239\" target=\"_blank\">(Miscege)naci\u00f3n en O Corti\u00e7o<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/trans.revues.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Trans: Revue de Litt\u00e9rature G\u00e9n\u00e9rale et Compar\u00e9e<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/trans.revues.org\/103\" target=\"_blank\">Issue 5<\/a> (2008)<br \/>\n10 pages (24 paragraphs)<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/romancelanguages.wfu.edu\/faculty\/Brian%20Price.html\" target=\"_blank\">Brian L. Price<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Spanish<br \/>\n<em>Wake Forest University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Written a year after the proclamation of Brazilian independence, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=29693\" target=\"_blank\">O Corti\u00e7o<\/a><\/em> by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alu%C3%ADsio_Azevedo\" target=\"_blank\">Aluisio Azevedo<\/a> depicts the demographic composition of the country with a naturalistic sense of detail and examines the possible dangers of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=450\" target=\"_blank\">miscegenation<\/a> in the new republic. Influenced by racist European theories, Azevedo and his contemporaries feared that the mixing of races would eventually result in diluting the European ancestries which had to be the base of the new society. In the novel, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Corti%C3%A7o\" target=\"_blank\">corti\u00e7o<\/a>\u2014a kind of small proletarian town which abounded in the 19th century\u2014works as a laboratory where the different racial elements converge, entangle and destroy each other. The present essay examines the historical context during which that novel was written and its critical eye focuses on the two main love affairs. In both, a European man marries (has a love relationship with) a woman of inferior race and pays a high moral price for that. In both, the man loses the purity which the author expects from the new nation. Eventually contrary to what Azevedo expected, mixed-race Brazil triumphs over the European colony and turns into a <em>corti\u00e7o<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article (in Spanish) in <a href=\"http:\/\/trans.revues.org\/239\" target=\"_blank\">HTML<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/trans.revues.org\/pdf\/239\" target=\"_blank\">PDF<\/a> format.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Miscege)naci\u00f3n en O Corti\u00e7o Trans: Revue de Litt\u00e9rature G\u00e9n\u00e9rale et Compar\u00e9e Issue 5 (2008) 10 pages (24 paragraphs) Brian L. Price, Assistant Professor of Spanish Wake Forest University Written a year after the proclamation of Brazilian independence, O Corti\u00e7o by Aluisio Azevedo depicts the demographic composition of the country with a naturalistic sense of detail [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,83,21,1196,8],"tags":[485,14093,14091,14092,14090],"class_list":["post-29690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","tag-aluisio-azevedo","tag-aluisio-tancredo-goncalves-de-azevedo","tag-brian-l-price","tag-brian-price","tag-trans-revue-de-litterature-generale-et-comparee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29690","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=29690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}