{"product_id":"the-black-butterfly-brazilian-slavery-and-the-literary-imagination-paperback","title":"The Black Butterfly: Brazilian Slavery and the Literary Imagination - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMarcus Wood\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The Black Butterfly focuses on the slavery writings of three of Brazil's literary giants--Machado de Assis, Castro Alves, and Euclides da Cunha--from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century\"--\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Black Butterfly\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on the slavery writings of three of Brazil's literary giants--Machado de Assis, Castro Alves, and Euclides da Cunha. These authors wrote in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as Brazil moved into and then through the 1888 abolition of slavery. Assis was Brazil's most experimental novelist; Alves was a Romantic poet with passionate liberationist politics, popularly known as \"the poet of the slaves\"; and da Cunha is known for the masterpiece \u003ci\u003eOs Sertões\u003c\/i\u003e (The Backlands), a work of genius that remains strangely neglected in the scholarship of transatlantic slavery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWood finds that all three writers responded to the memory of slavery in ways that departed from their counterparts in Europe and North America, where emancipation has typically been depicted as a moment of closure. He ends by setting up a wider literary context for his core authors by introducing a comparative study of their great literary abolitionist predecessors Luís Gonzaga Pinto da Gama and Joaquim Nabuco. \u003ci\u003eThe Black Butterfly\u003c\/i\u003e is a revolutionary text that insists Brazilian culture has always refused a clean break between slavery and its aftermath. Brazilian slavery thus emerges as a living legacy subject to continual renegotiation and reinvention.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarcus Wood is professor of English at the University of Sussex and the author of several books, including \u003ci\u003eBlack Milk: Imagining Slavery in the Visual Cultures of Brazil\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmerica \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The Horrible Gift of Freedom: Atlantic Slavery and the Representation of Emancipation\u003c\/i\u003e. His book \u003ci\u003eBlind Memory: Visual Representations of Slavery in England and America\u003c\/i\u003e was awarded the best book prize from the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 360\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51796027572512,"sku":"9781949199031","price":47.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/5a4197ea082cb2f7ce4119123987c773.webp?v=1780748297","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-black-butterfly-brazilian-slavery-and-the-literary-imagination-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}