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About the Author
Vanessa K. Valdes is an independent writer, scholar, speaker, and curator. Her books include Let Spirit Speak! Cultural Journeys through the African Diaspora, Oshun's Daughters: The Search for Womanhood in the Americas, Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, and Racialized Visions: Haiti and the Hispanic Caribbean, all published by SUNY Press. Earl E. Fitz is Professor of Portuguese, Spanish, and Comparative Literature at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of The Literatures of Spanish America and Brazil and Machado de Assis and Narrative Theory: Language, Imitation, Art, and Verisimilitude in the Last Six Novels, among many other books.b>
Reviews
"This book asks not what Machadian Blackness is, but, more importantly, what does it do? How does the author's racial identity open the text and his biography to new debates and discoveries? What are critics to do when an author does not perform his identity in the way he is expected to? Comparisons to Harriet Beecher Stowe, Toni Morrison, Milton Hatoum, and Jeferson Tenorio show how an inter-American approach to Machado-one that focuses on how his marginalization influenced his aesthetics, point of view, and characterization-has relevance far beyond understanding this single author." - John T. Maddox IV, author of Fractal Families in New Millennium Narrative by Afro-Puerto Rican Women
Book Information
ISBN 9781438498829
Author Vanessa K. Valdes
Format Paperback
Page Count 210
Imprint State University of New York Press
Publisher State University of New York Press
Weight(grams) 227g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 25mm