Lima Barreto

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<span><span>This edited volume is a collection of</span><span>twelve</span><span>interdisciplinary essays from various Brazilian literary scholars, historians, and anthropologists analyzing the work of 19</span><span><sup>th</sup></span><span>- and 20</span><span><sup>th</sup></span><span>-century Afro-Brazilian writer Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto. This is the first collection to present a cohesive analysis of this writers work in English. It is an intellectually diverse collection of essays that recover Barretos ½uvre</span><span></span><span>and consider a wide range of topics, including Barretos treatment of race, family, class, social and gender politics of postabolition Brazil, neocolonialism, the disjuncture between urban and suburban spaces, and national identity politics.</span></span>

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<span><span>Lamonte Aidoo is assistant professor of romance studies and African and African American studies at Duke University.</span></span><br><span></span><br><span><span>Daniel F. Silva is assistant professor of Portuguese at Middlebury College.</span></span>

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