Fool or almighty?: readings on Machado de Assis and slavery

Machado de Assis’s understanding of slavery and mainly of the abolitionist process is in the core of the readings which support a close linkage between Assis’s literary work and Brazilian society under the Second Reign. Such understanding is not, however, consensual among experts on the writer’s wor...

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Autor principal: Campos, Raquel Machado Alves de
Formato: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Lenguaje:Portugués
Publicado: Revista de Letras 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://periodicos.fclar.unesp.br/letras/article/view/1192
http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/61640
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Sumario:Machado de Assis’s understanding of slavery and mainly of the abolitionist process is in the core of the readings which support a close linkage between Assis’s literary work and Brazilian society under the Second Reign. Such understanding is not, however, consensual among experts on the writer’s work. The issues dealt with in this paper concern the different visions of how Assis portrayed abolition and the slaves themselves, as well as the relation such visions bear with historiography of slavery in Imperial Brazil. Keywords: Critique of Machado de Assis. Historiography of slavery. “Bons Dias!”.