Black Butterfly
«“A groundbreaking interpretation of Brazilian literature in the context of transatlantic slavery and studies of race.”- Aquiles Alencar Brayner, the British Library»
The Black Butterfly focuses on the slavery writings of three of Brazil's literary giants-Machado de Assis, Castro Alves, and Euclides da Cunha. These authors wrote in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as Brazil moved into and then through the 1888 abolition of slavery. Les mer
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Wood finds that all three writers responded to the memory of slavery in ways that departed from their counterparts in Europe and North America, where emancipation has typically been depicted as a moment of closure. He ends by setting up a wider literary context for his core authors by introducing a comparative study of their great literary abolitionist predecessors Luis Gonzaga Pinto da Gama and Joaquim Nabuco. The Black Butterfly is a revolutionary text that insists Brazilian culture has always refused a clean break between slavery and its aftermath. Brazilian slavery thus emerges as a living legacy subject to continual renegotiation and reinvention.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- West Virginia University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781949199024
- Utgivelsesår
- 2019
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
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«“A groundbreaking interpretation of Brazilian literature in the context of transatlantic slavery and studies of race.”- Aquiles Alencar Brayner, the British Library»
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