Domestic Servants in Literature and Testimony in Brazil, 1889-1999

S. Roncador (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

240 Seiten

2014 | 1st ed. 2014
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-46976-5 (ISBN)

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Drawing from a variety of historical sources, theory, and fictional and non-fictional production, this book addresses the cultural imaginary of domestic servants in modern Brazil and demonstrates maids' symbolic centrality to shifting notions of servitude, subordination, femininity, and domesticity.

Sônia Roncador is Associate Professor of Brazilian Literature and Culture in Department of Spanish and Portuguese at The University of Texas at Austin, USA.

Introduction - The Burdened Legacy of Domestic Servitude in Brazil 1. Júlia's Maids: Servants in the Cultural Imaginary of the Tropical Belle Époque 2. 'My Ol' Black Mammy': Childhood Maids in Brazilian Modernist Memoirs 3. 'How to Treat a Maid?': Misencounters with Servants in Clarice Lispector's 4. Writers in Aprons: Brazilian Servants' Testimonios

Erscheinungsdatum	30.06.2020
Zusatzinfo	IX, 240 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
Schlagworte	Brazil • Childhood • City • Counter • drawing • English literature • Fiction • LibreOffice Writer • Literature • Non-fiction • Production
ISBN-10	1-349-46976-9 / 1349469769
ISBN-13	978-1-349-46976-5 / 9781349469765
Zustand	Neuware