This book examines the nature and function of the main female
characters in the nine novels of Machado de Assis. The basic
argument is that Machado had a particular interest in female
characterization and that his fictional women became increasingly
sophisticated and complex as he matured and developed as a writer
and social commentator. This book argues that Machado developed,
especially after 1880 (and what is usually considered the beginning
of his "mature" period), a kind of anti-realistic, "new narrative,"
one that presents itself as self-referential fictional artifice but
one that also cultivates a keen social consciousness. The book also
contends that Machado increasingly uses his female
characterizations to convey this social consciousness and to show
that the new Brazil that is emerging both before and after the
establishment of the Brazilian Republic (1889) requires not only
the emancipation of the black slaves but the emancipation of its
women as well.
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