Emerging Dialogues on Machado de Assis

1. Introduction
Lamonte Aidoo, Daniel F. Silva

Part I. Situating Machado de Assis in History, Literature, and Philosophy

2. Machado de Assis: Creator and Character in a Troubled Scene
Lília Moritz Schwarcz

3. Machado de Assis and Realism: A Literary Genealogy
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht

4. Machado de Assis and Pascal
Pedro Meira Monteiro

Part II. Machado on Race, Identity, and Society

5. The Legacy of Slavery: Tales of Gender and Racial Violence in Machado de Assis
Sidney Chalhoub

6. Machado de Assis: From “Tragic Mulatto” to Human Tragicomedy
G. Reginald Daniel

7. “Father versus Mother”: Slavery and Its Apparatuses
Fernando Sousa Rocha

8. The “Chinese Question” in Machado’s Journalism
Sonia Roncador

Part III. Women in Machado’s Work

9. Writing Womanhood in the New Brazil: Machado’s Lição de Botânica

Earl E. Fitz

10. Capitu’s Curiosity: Undecidability and Questions of Gender in Dom Casmurro

Marta Peixoto

Part IV. Machado on Masculinity and Queer Relations

11. Machado’s Wounded Males
Luiz Fernando Valente

12. Homoaffectivity Exemplified in Dom Casmurro

Camilo Gomides

13. Masculinity and Matrimonial Secrets in Dom Casmurro

Richard Miskolci

Part V. Machado, Allegory, and the Narration of Violence

14. Machado’s Tales of the Fantastic: Allegory and the Macabre
M. Elizabeth Ginway

15. Machado de Assis and the Secret Heart of Literature
Paulo Moreira

16. Framing Violence: Narrator and Reader in “Pai contra mãe”
Giulia Ricco

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Latin American Culture, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Comparative Literature