Machado de Assis, Blackness, and the Americas (Suny Series)

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Vanessa K. Vald s is Associate Provost for Community Engagement and Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the City College of New York. She is the author of Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg and Oshun's Daughters: The Search for Womanhood in the Americas, and the editor of Racialized Visions: Haiti and the Hispanic Caribbean and Let Spirit Speak Cultural Journeys through the African Diaspora and all published by SUNY Press. Earl E. Fitz is Professor of Portuguese, Spanish, and Comparative Literature at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of The Literatures of Spanish America and Brazil and Machado de Assis and Narrative Theory: Language, Imitation, Art, and Verisimilitude in the Last Six Novels, among many other books.b>