{"product_id":"machado-de-assis-blackness-and-the-americas-9781438498829","title":"Machado de Assis, Blackness, and the Americas","description":"Considered 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Vanessa K. Vald?s\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/02\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Suny Series, Afro-Latinx Futures\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 210\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.5lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781438498829","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43293817077897,"sku":"9781438498829","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_bbe82f30-b684-4646-957b-fe1d2f5031e5.jpg?v=1737443561","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/machado-de-assis-blackness-and-the-americas-9781438498829","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}