{"product_id":"machado-de-assis-multiracial-identity-and-the-brazilian-novelist-paperback","title":"Machado de Assis: Multiracial Identity and the Brazilian Novelist - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eG. Reginald Daniel\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908) was Brazil's foremost novelist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As a mulatto, Machado experienced the ambiguity of racial identity throughout his life. Literary critics first interpreted Machado as an embittered misanthrope uninterested in the plight of his fellow African Brazilians. By midcentury, however, a new generation of critics asserted that Machado's writings \u003ci\u003edid\u003c\/i\u003e reveal his interest in slavery, race, and other contemporary social issues, but their interpretations went too far in the other direction. G. Reginald Daniel, an expert on Brazilian race relations, takes a fresh look at how Machado's writings were inflected by his life--especially his experience of his own racial identity. The result is a new interpretation that sees Machado as endeavoring to transcend his racial origins by universalizing the experience of racial ambiguity and duality into a fundamental mode of human existence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eG. Reginald Daniel is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eRace and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths?\u003c\/i\u003e (Penn State, 2006), among other works.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 344\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.77 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 15, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47373749977266,"sku":"9780271052472","price":61.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/a48bed69601662ac667176f95a09679b.webp?v=1777662473","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/machado-de-assis-multiracial-identity-and-the-brazilian-novelist-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}