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

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

by S. Roncador
Domestic Servants in Literature and Testimony in Brazil, 1889-1999

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

by S. Roncador

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781137353801
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 02/05/2014
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 240
File size: 459 KB

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

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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