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"The Black Butterfly focuses on the slavery writings of three of Brazil's literary giants--Machado de Assis, Castro Alves, and Euclides da Cunha. These authors wrote in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as Brazil moved into and then through the 1888 abolition of slavery. Assis was Brazil's most experimental novelist; Alves was a Romantic poet with passionate liberationist politics, popularly known as "the poet of the slaves"; and da Cunha is known for the masterpiece Os Sertoes/Sertőes (The Backlands), a work of genius that remains strangely neglected in the scholarship of transatlantic slavery. Wood finds that all three writers responded to the memory of slavery in ways that departed from their counterparts in Europe and North America, where emancipation has typically been depicted as a moment of closure. He ends by setting up a wider literary context for his core authors by introducing a comparative study of their great literary abolitionist predecessors Luis/Luís Gonzaga Pinto da Gama and Joaquim Nabuco. The Black Butterfly is a revolutionary text that insists Brazilian culture has always refused a clean break between slavery and its aftermath. Brazilian slavery thus emerges as a living legacy subject to continual renegotiation and reinvention"-- "The Black Butterfly focuses on the slavery writings of three of Brazil's literary giants--Machado de Assis, Castro Alves, and Euclides da Cunha--from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century"--

Brazilian literature --- Slavery in literature. --- Slavery --- Abolitionists --- Africans --- Blacks --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery. --- History and criticism. --- History. --- Alves, Castro, --- Machado de Assis, --- Cunha, Euclides da, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Ethnology --- Social reformers --- Slavery and slaves in literature --- Slaves in literature --- Cunha, Euclydes da, --- Da Cunha, Euclides, --- Pimenta da Cunha, Euclides Rodrigues, --- Rodrigues Pimenta da Cunha, Euclides, --- Assis, Joaquim Maria Machado de, --- Assis, Machado de, --- De Assis, Joaquim Maria Machado, --- De Assis, Machado, --- Machado de Assis, Joaquim Maria, --- Machado de Assis, Joaquín María, --- Mashado de Assiz, Zhoakin, --- Alves, Antônio de Castro, --- Castro Alves, Antônio Frederico de, --- De Castro Alves, Antônio Frederico, --- Alves, Antônio Frederico de Castro, --- Castro Alves, Antônio de, --- Black persons --- Negroes --- Black people --- Semana --- Enslaved persons in literature