Machado De Assis, Blackness, and the Americas

Examines the reception of Brazil's most-canonized writer in the United States to shed light on questions of Blackness and hemispheric American experience.

About the author

Vanessa K. Valdés is Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the City College of New York, City University of New York. She is the editor of Let Spirit Speak! Cultural Journeys through the African Diaspora and the author of Oshun's Daughters: The Search for Womanhood in the Americas, both also published by SUNY Press.

Product details

• Authors: Vanessa K. Fitz Valdes
• Assisted by: Fitz Earl E. (Editor), Vanessa K. Valdés (Editor)
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.02.2025
• EAN: 9781438498829
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-9882-9
• No. of pages: 210
• Series: SUNY series, Afro-Latinx Futures
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; USA, South America, Ethnic Studies, Latin America, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global), HISTORY / Latin America / South America, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American, Comparative Literature, Caribbean islands, Literature: history & criticism, United States of America, USA, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, History of the Americas, Literature: history and criticism, Black & Asian Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American & Black, Relating to African American / Black American people, Relating to people of the African diasporas / heritage