The Black Butterfly: Brazilian Slavery and the Literary Imagination

"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"--

Author: Marcus Wood
Publisher: West Virginia University Press
Published: 10/01/2019
Pages: 360
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9781949199031
ISBN10: 1949199037
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Caribbean & Latin American
- Social Science | Slavery
- Literary Criticism | European | Spanish & Portuguese

About the Author

Marcus Wood is professor of English at the University of Sussex and the author of several books, including Black Milk: Imagining Slavery in the Visual Cultures of BrazilandAmerica and The Horrible Gift of Freedom: Atlantic Slavery and the Representation of Emancipation. His book Blind Memory: Visual Representations of Slavery in England and America was awarded the best book prize from the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic.