Titlebook: Emerging Dialogues on Machado de Assis; Lamonte Aidoo,Daniel F. Silva Book 2016 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016 Macha

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Introduction, mark on Brazilian literature as well as the letters of Latin America. In recent decades, his oeuvre has gained increasing relevance in world literature, reaching new audiences. His nuanced plots and characters—along with his innovations in terms of narration—have influenced innumerable writers and

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Machado de Assis and Realism: A Literary Genealogyode of realism in Brazilian literature focuses on Machado and his often contentious place within literary movements. More importantly, Gumbrecht addresses how Machado reconfigured realist aesthetics to the demands of his time, engendering a new brand of realism—in stark contrast to the European real

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Machado de Assis and Pascaland how the French moralists, especially Blaise Pascal, enabled Machado to explore the limitations and shortcomings of the modern conception of an autonomous subject, most strikingly in his late work. This chapter studies the influence of moralists in how Machado portrays individuals who cannot esca

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The Legacy of Slavery: Tales of Gender and Racial Violence in Machado de Assisdentify three moments, successive but also to some degree coeval, in the way in which Machado approached and interrelated these subjects. First, he denounced the seigneurial custom of resorting to sexual violence against free and enslaved black women, and depicted these women’s dignity in dealing wi

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Machado de Assis: From “Tragic Mulatto” to Human Tragicomedys were inflected by his life—especially the experience of his racial identity. He argues that Machado endeavored to transcend, rather than deny, his racial background by embracing his greater humanity. Machado presents a challenge to the notion that the most important thing about one’s personhood is

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“Father versus Mother”: Slavery and Its Apparatusesf Afro-descendants, even those who were free continued to experience slavery as it permeated all aspects of everyday life. Machado’s story begins with the assertion that, with slavery, there came occupations and apparatuses that were specific to it, such as slave catching. What interests Rocha is th

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The “Chinese Question” in Machado’s Journalismneteenth-century debates regarding Chinese immigration to Brazil. In order to examine Machado’s ambivalent position on this question, Roncador relies on his .(chronicles), reflecting on the visit of Mandarin Tong King Sing and his African-American assistant, G.A. Butley, to Brazil in October 1883. A

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Writing Womanhood in the New Brazil: Machado’s ,heatrical works, particularly .(Botanical Lesson). More than mere props or foils for his more famous male characters, Machado’s fictional women possess their own narrative logic and their functions are quite distinct from those of his better-known male characters. Machado’s fictional women are also

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Capitu’s Curiosity: Undecidability and Questions of Gender in , of Capitu’s radically undecidable moral substance, in relation to the position of women on the brink of change in nineteenth-century Brazil. If we read the novel in full awareness of the undecidability of some of its key components, as a literary character, Capitu remains both extremely devious and