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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.
Based upon the author's own experiences of life, exile, and return
under the dictatorship that gripped Brazil in the 1960s and 1970s,
Freedom Sun in the Tropics follows Lena, a journalist, as she
resists violence and political repression, and decides to flee to
Paris. Upon her eventual return, Lena soon discovers that the
dictatorship's prison walls have enclosed private lives and hold
strong even after the collapse of authoritarianism. With
friendship, truth, and family broken, she struggles to make the
difficult return to freedom and regain a sense of life -- and
simple decency -- on the other side of trauma. Originally published
in 1988, Ana Maria Machado's novel vividly captures one of the
darkest periods in recent Brazilian history.
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