Lima Barreto / / edited by Lamonte Aidoo and Daniel F. Silva

• Pubblicazione: Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , [2013]; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (249 p.)
• Disciplina: 869.341
• Soggetto topico: Brazilian literature - History and criticism
• Altri autori: AidooLamonte <1986-> SilvaDaniel F. <1985->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Lima Barreto
• ISBN: 0-7391-7613-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910790841103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II