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Informationen zum Autor Edited by Lamonte Aidoo and Daniel F. Silva - Contributions by Earl E. Fitz; Renata R. M. Wasserman; Nelson H. Vieira; Lilia Moritz Schwarcz; Emanuelle K. F. Oliveira; Paulo da-Luz-Moreira; Vivaldo A. Santos; Robert Anderson; Luiz Fernando Valente; Mário Klappentext This is the first volume of critical essays in English on the much-studied Lima Barreto. Each chapter explores not only his life and vast body of work but also the historical and societal conditions in which his literary voice emerged. Lima Barreto's fiction, journalism, and diaries, as well as his personal and professional trajectories, remain a powerful challenge to most canonical interpretations of Brazilian race relations and national identity. This collection of critical essays achieves the important task of gathering a number of respected scholars from different regions and disciplines to offer a variety of highly innovative readings of his works, as well as rigorous analyses of life in early 20th-century Brazil. It offers an invaluable contribution to the fields of comparative literature, hemispheric studies, African diaspora, gender and race studies, and Decolonial thinking. It will certainly become an essential resource for both the specialist and those looking for an informed introduction to Brazilian culture. -- Cesar Braga-Pinto, Associate Professor of Brazilian Studies, Northwestern University Zusammenfassung This is the first volume of critical essays in English on the much-studied Lima Barreto. Each chapter explores not only his life and vast body of work but also the historical and societal conditions in which his literary voice emerged. Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionBy Lamonte Aidoo and Daniel F. Silva Chapter 1: Lima Barreto and Gender: An Inter-American PerspectiveBy Earl E. Fitz Chapter 2: Race and Sex in Lima Barreto and Charles Chesnutt: a Comparative Politics Between Brazil and the United StatesBy Renata R. M. Wasserman Chapter 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 SáBy Nelson H. Vieira Chapter 4: Lima Barreto and the Mimetic Experience: Agency, Literature, and Madness in the Brazil of the First RepublicBy Lilia Moritz Schwarcz Chapter 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 By Emanuelle K. F. Oliveira Chapter 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"By Paulo da-Luz-Moreira Chapter 7: Extraordinary Delusions: the Madness of Capital in Lima Barreto's writingsBy Vivaldo A. Santos Chapter 8: "Fatally Condemned to Wander": Lima Barreto's Nonfiction Journalism and TestimonialsBy Robert Anderson Chapter 9: From Synthesis to Difference: Lima Barreto's Parodic UfanismoBy Luiz Fernando Valente Chapter 10: Reading Lima Barreto against Lima BarretoBy Mário Higa Chapter 11: Freyreans, Marxists, and the "Labyrinth of Nations": Lima Barreto and His Critics By Marc A. Hertzman Chapter 12: Men in their Own Wor(l)ds: Lima Barreto and the Narration of MasculinityBy Talia Gúzman-González...
