S. Roncador

Domestic Servants in Literature and Testimony in Brazil, 1889-1999

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing from a variety of historical sources, theory, and fictional and non-fictional production, this book addresses the cultural imaginary of domestic servants in modern Brazil and demonstrates maids' symbolic centrality to shifting notions of servitude, subordination, femininity, and domesticity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Macmillan Education / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-35379-5
• 2014
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 142mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 441g
• ISBN-13: 9781137353795
• ISBN-10: 1137353791
• Artikelnr.: 40449755

Autorenporträt

Sônia Roncador is Associate Professor of Brazilian Literature and Culture in Department of Spanish and Portuguese at The University of Texas at Austin, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - The Burdened Legacy of Domestic Servitude in Brazil 1. Júlia's Maids: Servants in the Cultural Imaginary of the Tropical Belle Époque 2. 'My Ol' Black Mammy': Childhood Maids in Brazilian Modernist Memoirs 3. 'How to Treat a Maid?': Misencounters with Servants in Clarice Lispector's 4. Writers in Aprons: Brazilian Servants' Testimonios

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Introduction - The Burdened Legacy of Domestic Servitude in Brazil 1.
Júlia's Maids: Servants in the Cultural Imaginary of the Tropical Belle
Époque 2. 'My Ol' Black Mammy': Childhood Maids in Brazilian Modernist
Memoirs 3. 'How to Treat a Maid?': Misencounters with Servants in Clarice
Lispector's 4. Writers in Aprons: Brazilian Servants' Testimonios