Machado de Assis, Blackness, and the Americas

Vanessa K. Valdés is an independent writer, scholar, speaker, and curator. Her books include Let Spirit Speak! Cultural Journeys through the African Diaspora, Oshun’s Daughters: The Search for Womanhood in the Americas, Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, and Racialized Visions: Haiti and the Hispanic Caribbean, all published by SUNY Press. Earl E. Fitz is Professor of Portuguese, Spanish, and Comparative Literature at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of The Literatures of Spanish America and Brazil and Machado de Assis and Narrative Theory: Language, Imitation, Art, and Verisimilitude in the Last Six Novels, among many other books.b>

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Complexities of Disguise: Machado de Assis and His Contemporary Moment
Vanessa K. Valdés and Earl E. Fitz

1. Machado de Assis in Brazil, the United States, and Greater America: A Writer, a Black Writer, Or . . . A Genius, Our Literary Pelé?
Earl E. Fitz

2. Black, Then White, Then Black Again: Brazil's Racial Politics and the Changing Face of Machado de Assis
Regina Castro McGowan

3. "Father against Mother": Race and/in the Reception of the Works of Machado de Assis
Paulo Dutra

4. Raimundo the Obscure: Enslavement, Abolition, and the Problematics of "Uncle Tom" Agency in Machado's Iaiá Garcia
Niyi Afolabi

5. Machado de Assis and the Color of Brazilian Literature in the United States
Benjamin Legg

6. Black Writer, White Letters? Machado's Racialized Reception of Identity and Aesthetics
Daniel F. Silva

7. Outsiders Within and Insiders Without: Narrating Race and Identity in Machado de Assis, Milton Hatoum, and Jeferson Tenório
David M. Mittelman

Afterword: A Conversation between Friends
Vanessa K. Valdés and Earl E. Fitz

Contributors
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