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UNINA9910790841103321 |
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Titolo |
Lima Barreto / / edited by Lamonte Aidoo and Daniel F. Silva |
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Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , [2013] |
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©2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (249 p.) |
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Collana |
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New critical perspectives |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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AidooLamonte <1986-> |
SilvaDaniel F. <1985-> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Brazilian literature - History and criticism |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Introduction; 1 Lima Barreto and Gender; 2 Race and Sex in Lima Barreto and Charles Chesnutt; 3 Endo-Colonialist Impulses; 4 Lima Barreto and the Mimetic Experience; 5 A Brazilian Pan-Africanistat the Turn of the Century; 6 Climbing the Social Ladder as a Tragic Farce in Brazil at the Turn of the Century; 7 Extraordinary Delusions; 8 "Fatally Condemned to Wander"; 9 From Synthesis to Difference; 10 Reading Lima Barretoagainst Lima Barreto; 11 Freyreans, Marxists, and the "Labyrinth of Nations"; 12 Men in their Wor(l)ds; Index; About the Contributors |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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