Title
Machado de Assis: Multiracial Identity and the Brazilian Novelist by G. Reginald Daniel (Review)
Document Type
Journal Article
Date of this Version
2014
Publication Source
Hispanic Review
Volume
82
Issue
1
Start Page
116
Last Page
119
DOI
10.1353/hir.2014.0008
Abstract
In Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity, the sociologist Erving Goffman (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1963) discusses the relationship between individuals who possess a social stigma and the "normals" (8). Reginald Daniel's new book, Machado de Assis: Multiracial Identity and the Brazilian Novelist, discusses the stigmatized identity of the most celebrated Brazilian novelist as perceived in his literary work. Machado's biography is traced, his work commented on, and we are offered a picture of the Brazilian mulatto writer as a way to understand the inclusion, or lack thereof, of race relations and black identification in his writings.
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Keywords
Reginald G. Daniel, Machado de Assis, race in literature, identity, stigma, Mércia Santana Flannery
Recommended Citation
Flannery, M. (2014). Machado de Assis: Multiracial Identity and the Brazilian Novelist by G. Reginald Daniel (Review). Hispanic Review, 82 (1), 116-119. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hir.2014.0008
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Date Posted: 26 April 2016
This document has been peer reviewed.
Comments
This is a review of Machado de Assis: Multiracial Identity and the Brazilian Novelist by G. Reginald Daniel