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Domestic Servants in Literature and Testimony in Brazil, 1889-1999 (Hardcover)
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Domestic Servants in Literature and Testimony in Brazil, 1889-1999 (Hardcover)
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This book demonstrates the symbolic centrality of servants in
Brazilian intellectual discourse (fiction, memoirs, conduct
literature, and journalism) over the course of one century--from
the aftermath of the abolition of slavery (1888) to late
twentieth-century maids' testimonies. It explores demeaning images
of servants to examine the ways intellectuals reconciled the
colonial legacy of servitude with Brazil's modernization. While the
first chapters examine the discourse of 'the servant problem, '
revealing the elite's power anxieties vis-a-vis post-abolition
transformations of domestic social contracts, later chapters
explore new nuances of cross-racial conflicts facing contemporary
servants' grassroots movements and the increase in female
white-collar employment.
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