Three Sad Races : Racial Identity and National Consciousness in Brazilian Literature (Paperback)

Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. From Indians to Indianism; 2. The songs of an exile: Antonio Goncalves Dias; 3. The novelist as matchmaker: Jose de Alencar; 4. The poet as slave: Antonio de Castro Alves; 5. A journey through the escape hatch: Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis; 6. The black swan: Joao da Cruz e Sousa; 7. From despair to Modernism; 8. The harlequin: Mario de Andrade; Conclusion: the Edenic metaphor; Notes; Selected bibliography; Index.