S. Roncador
Palgrave Macmillan US
e druk, 2014
9781349469765
Domestic Servants in Literature and Testimony in Brazil, 1889-1999
Specificaties
Paperback, blz.
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Engels
Palgrave Macmillan US |
e druk, 2014
ISBN13: 9781349469765
Rubricering
Levertijd ongeveer 8 werkdagen
Samenvatting
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.
Specificaties
ISBN13:9781349469765
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan US
Inhoudsopgave
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