Lima Barreto
By: edited by Lamonte Aidoo and Daniel F. Silva
Series: New critical perspectives; New critical perspectives
Publisher: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9780739176122
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Lamonte Aidoo and Daniel F. Silva; title: 1: Lima Barreto and Gender: An Inter-American Perspective / Earl E. Fitz; title: 2: Race and Sex in Lima Barreto and Charles Chesnutt: a Comparative Politics Between Brazil and the United States / Renata R. M. Wasserman; title: 3: The 'Coloniality of Power' and the Fictional Biography of an Obscure Bureaucrat in Lima Barreto's Vida e Morte de M. J. Gonzaga de Sa / Nelson H. Vieira; title: 4: Lima Barreto and the Mimetic Experience: Agency, Literature, and Madness in the Brazil of the First Republic / Lilia Moritz Schwarcz; title: 5: A Pan-African Activist at the Turn of the 20th Century: Lima Barreto and the Denunciation of Racial Prejudice in Brazil and the United States / Emanuelle K. F. Oliveira; title: 6: Climbing the Social Ladder as a Tragic Farce in Brazil at the Turn of the Century in Machado de Assis' "The Nurse," Lima Barreto's "The Man Who Spoke Javanese," and Monteiro Lobato's "The Funnyman Who Repented" / Paulo da-Luz-Moreira; title: 7: Extraordinary Delusions: the Madness of Capital in Lima Barreto's writings / Vivaldo A. Santos; title: 8: "Fatally Condemned to Wander": Lima Barreto's Nonfiction Journalism and Testimonials / Robert Anderson; title: 9: From Synthesis to Difference: Lima Barreto's Parodic Ufanismo / Luiz Fernando Valente; title: 10: Reading Lima Barreto against Lima Barreto / Mario Higa; title: 11: Freyreans, Marxists, and the "Labyrinth of Nations": Lima Barreto and His Critics / Marc A. Hertzman; title: 12: Men in their Own Wor(l)ds: Lima Barreto and the Narration of Masculinity / Talia Guzman-Gonzalez; title: Index.