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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.
The first book-length edited collection on Machado de Assis, this
volume offers essays on Machado de Assis' work that offer new
critical perspectives not only Brazilian literature and history,
but also to social, cultural, and political phenomena that continue
to have global repercussions.
In Slavery Unseen, Lamonte Aidoo upends the narrative of Brazil as
a racial democracy, showing how the myth of racial democracy elides
the history of sexual violence, patriarchal terror, and
exploitation of slaves. Drawing on sources ranging from inquisition
trial documents to travel accounts and literature, Aidoo
demonstrates how interracial and same-sex sexual violence operated
as a key mechanism of the production and perpetuation of slavery as
well as racial and gender inequality. The myth of racial democracy,
Aidoo contends, does not stem from or reflect racial progress;
rather, it is an antiblack apparatus that upholds and protects the
heteronormative white patriarchy throughout Brazil's past and on
into the present.
In Slavery Unseen, Lamonte Aidoo upends the narrative of Brazil as
a racial democracy, showing how the myth of racial democracy elides
the history of sexual violence, patriarchal terror, and
exploitation of slaves. Drawing on sources ranging from inquisition
trial documents to travel accounts and literature, Aidoo
demonstrates how interracial and same-sex sexual violence operated
as a key mechanism of the production and perpetuation of slavery as
well as racial and gender inequality. The myth of racial democracy,
Aidoo contends, does not stem from or reflect racial progress;
rather, it is an antiblack apparatus that upholds and protects the
heteronormative white patriarchy throughout Brazil's past and on
into the present.
This book examines today’s massive migrations between Global
South and Global North in light of Spain and Portugal’s
complicated colonial legacies. It offers unique material on
Spanish-speaking and Lusophone Africa in conjunction to
transatlantic and transpacific perspectives encompassing the
Americas, Asia, and the Caribbean. For the first time, these are
brought together to explore how movement within and beyond these
former metropoles came to define the Iberian Peninsula. The
collection is composed of papers that study human mobility in
Spanish-speaking or Lusophone contexts from a myriad of approaches.
The project thus sheds critical light on migratory movement within
the Luso-Hispanic world, and also beyond its traditional
geo-linguistic parameters, through an eclectic and
inter-disciplinary collection of essays, traversing anthropology,
literary studies, theater, and popular culture. Beyond focusing
solely on the geo-political limits of Peninsular space, several
essays interrogate the legacies of Iberian colonial projects in a
global perspective, and how the discursive underpinnings of these
impact the politics of migration in the broader Luso-Hispanic
world.
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