The black butterfly: Brazilian slavery and the literary imagination
- Submitting institution
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University of Sussex
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 97133_84577
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- West Virginia University Press
- ISBN
- 9781949199024
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- The Black Butterfly (West Virginia UP, 2019) is a major, Leverhulme Fellowship-supported study (360pp) of the slavery writings of three of Brazil’s late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literary giants—Machado de Assis, Castro Alves, and Euclides da Cunha – who wrote as Brazil moved into and then through the 1888 abolition of slavery. All three have been neglected in the scholarship of transatlantic slavery and this book (based on extensive research in Brazil) redresses that neglect to insist Brazilian culture has always refused a clean break between slavery and its aftermath, creating a living legacy subject to continual renegotiation and reinvention.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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