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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.
This edited volume is a collection of twelve interdisciplinary
essays from various Brazilian literary scholars, historians, and
anthropologists analyzing the work of 19th- and 20th-century
Afro-Brazilian writer Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto. This is the
first collection to present a cohesive analysis of this writer's
work in English. It is an intellectually diverse collection of
essays that recover Barreto's oeuvre and consider a wide range of
topics, including Barreto's treatment of race, family, class,
social and gender politics of postabolition Brazil, neocolonialism,
the disjuncture between urban and suburban spaces, and national
identity politics.
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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The Girl in the Photograph (Paperback)
Lygia Fagundes Telles; Translated by Margaret A Neves; Introduction by Earl E. Fitz
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Complex and hauntingly beautiful, Lygia Fagundes Telles's most
acclaimed novel is a journey into the inner lives of three young
women, each revealing her secrets and loves, each awaiting a
destiny tied to the colorful and violent world of modern Brazil.
Sensual and wealthy Lorena dreams of a tryst with a married man.
Unhappy Lia burns with a frantic desire to free her imprisoned
fianc?. Glamorous Ana Clara, unable to escape her past, falls
toward a tragedy of drugs and obsession. Intimate and
unforgettable, "The Girl in the Photograph" creates an
extraordinary picture of the wonder and the darkness that come to
possess a woman's mind, and stands as one of the greatest novels to
come out of Brazil in the late twentieth century.
In this survey of Central and South American literature, Earl E.
Fitz provides the first book in English to analyze the Portuguese-
and Spanish-language American canons in conjunction, uncovering
valuable insights about both. Fitz works by comparisons and
contrasts: the political and cultural situation at the turn of the
fifteenth century in Spain and Portugal; the indigenous American
cultures encountered by the Spanish and Portuguese and their legacy
of influence; the documented discoveries of Colón and Caminha; the
colonial poetry of Mexico’s Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and
Brazil’s Gregório de Matos; culminating in a meticulous
evaluation of the poetry of Nicaragua’s Rubén Darío and the
prose fiction of Brazil’s Machado de Assis. Fitz, an
award-winning scholar of comparative literature, contends that at
the end of the nineteenth century, Latin America produced two great
literary revolutions, both unique in the western hemisphere, and
best understood together.
This book makes the argument that Machado de Assis, hailed as one
of Latin American literature’s greatest writers, was also a major
theoretician of the modern novel form. Steeped in the works of
Western literature and an imaginative reader of French Symbolist
poetry, Machado creates, between 1880 and 1908, a “new
narrative,” one that will presage the groundbreaking theories of
Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure by showing how even the
language of narrative cannot escape being elusive and ambiguous in
terms of meaning. It is from this discovery about the nature of
language as a self-referential semiotic system that Machado crafts
his “new narrative.” Long celebrated in Brazil as a dazzlingly
original writer, Machado has struggled to gain respect and
attention outside the Luso-Brazilian ken. He is the epitome of the
“outsider” or “marginal,” the iconoclastic and wildly
innovative genius who hails from a culture rarely studied in the
Western literary hierarchy and so consigned to the status of
“eccentric.” Had the Brazilian master written not in Portuguese
but English, French, or German, he would today be regarded as one
of the true exemplars of the modern novel, in expression as well as
in theory. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed
worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
In this survey of Central and South American literature, Earl E.
Fitz provides the first book in English to analyze the Portuguese-
and Spanish-language American canons in conjunction, uncovering
valuable insights about both. Fitz works by comparisons and
contrasts: the political and cultural situation at the turn of the
fifteenth century in Spain and Portugal; the indigenous American
cultures encountered by the Spanish and Portuguese and their legacy
of influence; the documented discoveries of Colón and Caminha; the
colonial poetry of Mexico’s Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and
Brazil’s Gregório de Matos; culminating in a meticulous
evaluation of the poetry of Nicaragua’s Rubén Darío and the
prose fiction of Brazil’s Machado de Assis. Fitz, an
award-winning scholar of comparative literature, contends that at
the end of the nineteenth century, Latin America produced two great
literary revolutions, both unique in the western hemisphere, and
best understood together.
Inter-American literary study is an exciting and fast-growing area
of comparative scholarship. The Americas are tied together by a
common historical heritage and by a history of social, political,
economic, and cultural interaction. As a contribution to this
field, this book brings together the literatures and literary
histories of English and French Canada, the United States, Spanish
America, the Caribbean, and Brazil. The periods focused on include
the Colonial Period, the Nineteenth Century, Modernism and
Modernity, the 1960s, and the Contemporary Moment. The author
contrasts the different European heritages that were brought to the
New World. In addition, the literature and culture of Native
America is referred to in each of these sections that will be of
use to the reader interested in this important topic, which we can
rightly think of as the common denominator of all American
literature.
"Fitz is a well-established scholar whose work on Lispector is
highly respected, and this is a well-focused and very knowledgeable
study. One of the things I particularly like about this book is
that it makes a case for reading Lispector in the light of
poststructuralist theory without overwhelming the reader." --Debra
A. Castillo, Professor of Romance Studies and Director of Latin
American Studies Program, Cornell University Driven by an
unfulfilled desire for the unattainable, ultimately indefinable
Other, the protagonists of the novels and stories of acclaimed
Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector exemplify and humanize many of
the issues central to poststructuralist thought, from the nature of
language, truth, and meaning to the unstable relationships between
language, being, and reality. In this book, Earl Fitz demonstrates
that, in turn, poststructuralism offers important and revealing
insights into all aspects of Lispector's writing, including her
style, sense of structure, characters, themes, and socio-political
conscience. Fitz draws on Lispector's entire oeuvre--novels,
stories, cronicas, and children's literature--to argue that her
writing consistently reflects the basic tenets of poststructuralist
theory. He shows how Lispector's characters struggle over and
humanize poststructuralist dilemmas and how their essential sense
of being is deeply dependent on a shifting, and typically
transgressive, sense of desire and sexuality.
This book makes the argument that Machado de Assis, hailed as one
of Latin American literature's greatest writers, was also a major
theoretician of the modern novel form. Steeped in the works of
Western literature and an imaginative reader of French Symbolist
poetry, Machado creates, between 1880 and 1908, a 'new narrative,'
one that will presage the groundbreaking theories of Swiss linguist
Ferdinand de Saussure by showing how even the language of narrative
cannot escape being elusive and ambiguous in terms of meaning. It
is from this discovery about the nature of language as a
self-referential semiotic system that Machado crafts his 'new
narrative.' Long celebrated in Brazil as a dazzlingly original
writer, Machado has struggled to gain respect and attention outside
the Luso-Brazilian ken. He is the epitome of the 'outsider' or
'marginal,' the iconoclastic and wildly innovative genius who hails
from a culture rarely studied in the Western literary hierarchy and
so consigned to the status of 'eccentric.' Had the Brazilian master
written not in Portuguese but English, French, or German, he would
today be regarded as one of the true exemplars of the modern novel,
in expression as well as in theory.
The genesis of Comparative Cultural Studies and Latin America stems
from the contributors' conviction that, given its vitality and
excellence, Latin American literature deserves a more prominent
place in comparative literature publications, curricula, and
disciplinary discussions. The editors introduce the volume by first
arguing that there still exists, in some quarters, a lingering bias
against literature written in Spanish and Portuguese. Secondly, the
authors assert that by embracing Latin American literature and
culture more enthusiastically, comparative literature would find
itself reinvigorated, placed into productive discourse with a host
of issues, languages, literatures, and cultures that have too long
been paid scant academic attention. Following an introduction by
the editors, the volume contains papers by Gene H. Bell-Villada on
the question of canon, by Gordon Brotherston and Lucia de Sa on the
First Peoples of the Americas and their literature, by Elizabeth
Coonrod Martinez on the Latin American novel of the 1920s, by Roman
de la Campa on Latin American Studies, by Earl E. Fitz on Spanish
American and Brazilian literature, by Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria
on Latin American and comparative literature, by Sophia A.
McClennen on comparative literature and Latin American Studies, by
Alberto Moreiras on Borges, by Julio Ortega on the critical debate
about Latin American cultural studies, by Christina Marie Tourino
on Cuban Americas in New York City, by Mario J. Valdes on the
comparative history of literary cultures in Latin America, and by
Lois Parkinson Zamora on comparative literature and globalization.
The volume also contains a bibliography of scholarship in
comparative Latin American culture and literature and biographical
abstracts of the contributors to the volume.
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