{"product_id":"machado-de-assis-blackness-and-the-americas-9781438498829","title":"Machado de Assis, Blackness, and the Americas","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExamines the reception of Brazil's most-canonized writer in the United States to shed light on questions of Blackness and hemispheric American experience.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConsidered a genius in his own lifetime, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908) is Brazil's most canonized writer. Yet, he remains a contested and even enigmatic figure to readers in Brazil and abroad, his relative silence on slavery leaving him vulnerable to charges of aspirations to whiteness. \u003ci\u003eMachado de Assis, Blackness, and the Americas\u003c\/i\u003e reconsiders this issue by exploring how his prose fiction has been received in the United States. In seven original essays, contributors re-examine his novels and short stories, as well as photographs of the writer, in order to better understand the strategies he employed to navigate Brazil's literary scene as a man of African descent. Framed by a contextualizing introduction and an afterword in the form of a conversation between the editors, the volume speaks to and with our own historical moment and the realities of Black lives in the Americas over the course of the last two centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVanessa K. Vald?s \u003c\/b\u003eis an independent writer, scholar, speaker, and curator. Her books include \u003ci\u003eLet Spirit Speak! Cultural Journeys through the African Diaspora\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOshun's Daughters: The Search for Womanhood in the Americas\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDiasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eRacialized Visions: Haiti and the Hispanic Caribbean\u003c\/i\u003e, all published by SUNY Press. \u003cb\u003eEarl E. Fitz \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of Portuguese, Spanish, and Comparative Literature at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Literatures of Spanish America and Brazil\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMachado de Assis and Narrative Theory: Language, Imitation, Art, and Verisimilitude in the Last Six Novels\u003c\/i\u003e, among many other books.b\u0026gt;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51181979697426,"sku":"9781438498829","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_01a56233-b9b0-4850-9d29-dafc88f1959a.jpg?v=1744411981","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/machado-de-assis-blackness-and-the-americas-9781438498829","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}