Comparative Perspectives on the Rise of the Brazilian Novel
Edited by Ana Cláudia Suriani da Silva and Sandra Guardini Vasconcelos
Comparative Perspectives on the Rise of the Brazilian Novel presents a framework of comparative literature based on a systemic and empirical approach to the study of the novel and applies that framework to the analysis of key nineteenth-century Brazilian novels. The works under examination were published during the period in which the forms and procedures of the novel were acclimatized as the genre established and consolidated itself in Brazil.
The 15 original essays by experienced
and early career scholars explore the links between themes,
narrative paradigms, and techniques of Brazilian, European and North American
novels and the development of the Brazilian novel. The European and
North American novels cover a wide range of literary traditions
and periods, and are in conversation with the different novelistic
trends that characterize the rise of the genre in Brazil. Chapters
reflect on both canonical and lesser-known Brazilian works from a comparatist
perspective: from the first novel by an Afro-Brazilian woman, Maria
Firmina dos Reis’s Ursula (1859) to Machado de Assis’s Dom
Casmurro (1900); and from José de Alencar’s Indianist novel, Iracema (1865),
to Júlia Lopes de Almeida’s A Falência (The Bankruptcy,
1901).
Ana Cláudia Suriani da Silva is Associate Professor of Brazilian Studies, UCL.
Sandra Guardini Vasconcelos is Full Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of São Paulo (USP). She has authored articles and chapters both in Brazil and abroad, and has recently edited Books and Periodicals in Brazil 1768-1930: A Transatlantic Perspective with Ana Cláudia Suriani da Silva (Legenda, 2014) and Tropical Gothic in Literature and Culture; the Americas with Justin D. Edwards (Routledge, 2016).
Introduction: A Novel Approach to the Rise of the Brazilian Novel
Ana Cláudia Suriani da Silva and Sandra Guardini Vasconcelos
1. Misterios el Plata: (Dis)Figuring History to Forge a Space for a Woman’s Agency
Rita Terezinha Schmidt
2. The Historical Significance of Memórias de um sargento de milícias
Edu Teruki Otsuka
3. A providência, recordação dos tempos coloniais and the Novel in Brazil
Marcus Vinicius Nogueira Soares
4. Maria Firmina dos Reis and the First Afro-Brazilian Novel
Eduardo de Assis Duarte
5. 'A suspicious sound interrupted the gentle harmony': Iracema, by José de Alencar
Thiago Rhys Bezerra Cass
6. Displaced Experience and Magic Compromise
Jorge de Almeida
7. Brazilian Landscape: A Study of Inocência
Eduardo Vieira Martins
8. Silences and Voices of Slavery: A escrava Isaura and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Heloisa Toller Gomes
9. The Construction of Pseudo-Modern Individuals in Senhora by José de Alencar
Maria Eulália Ramicelli
10. Maria Benedita Câmara Bormann’s Lésbia: The Creation of the Woman Writer in Brazil
Margaret Anne Clarke
11. O Ateneu: A Singular Masterpiece about the Nineteenth-Century Civilizational Crisis
André Luiz Barros da Silva
12. O aborto and the Rise of Erotic Popular Print in Late Nineteenth-Century Brazil,
Leonardo Mendes
13. Machado de Assis and the Novel
Sandra Guardini Vasconcelos
14. Capitu against the Elegiac Narrator
Ana Cláudia Suriani da Silva
15. On Moral and Financial Bankruptcy: Adultery and Financial Speculation in A falência by Júlia Lopes de Almeida
Cintia Kozonoi Vezzani
Index
Format: Paperback
Size: 234 × 156 mm
336 Pages
Copyright: © 2020
ISBN: 9781787354722
Publication: May 14, 2020
Series: Comparative Literature and Culture
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