Domestic Servants in Literature and Testimony in Brazil, 1889-1999
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Domestic Servants in Literature and Testimony in Brazil, 1889-1999

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Domestic Servants in Literature and Testimony in Brazil, 1889-1999

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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.

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Index
abolitionism in Brazil, 7, 10, 45–7, 70, 161
women abolitionists, 47, 51
Agamben, Giorgio, 170
Agassiz, Elizabeth, 29
Alencastro, Luiz Filipe de, 30, 69, 115–6
Almeida, Inez Barros de (author of the household manual Da conversa cricri), 118
domestic guides in era of the newly politicized servant, 119
Almeida, Julia Lopes de (black(ened) domesticity: contagion in MemĂłrias de Marta), 26, 39, 40
physical degradation in A falĂȘncia, 59, 63–4
racialized dress code in “O vĂ©u: memĂłrias de um estudante”, 62–3
rationalizing domesticity in Correio da Roça, 59
Almeida, Julia Lopes de (middle-class domesticity), 23, 26, 34, 40–4, 51–4, 64–5
analysis of Livro das Donas e donzellas, 23–4, 26, 45, 66
breastfeeding in Maternidade, 59, 64
domestic woman in A familia Medeiros, 26, 45, 47–8, 52, 57
international resonance of middle-class domesticity in A casa verde, 26, 55–6
utopian domestic work in A intrusa, 59–60, 65
Almeida, Julia Lopes de (the maid imaginary in Rio’s Belle Époque), 26, 28
race-inflected hierarchy among servants in A viĂșva SimĂ”es, 31
servitude and immigration, 31
thieving and envious servants, 35
Almeida, Maria Suely Kofes, 5, 35–6
Alvarez, Sonia, 164–5
Andrade, Carlos Drummond de, 72, 75, 101–2
Alguma Poesia, 102–4, 106
Andrade’s mammy Siá Maria, 103–6
autobiographical trilogy, 103
childhood sensualism, 102–7
social criticism of maid exploitation, 105
Andrade, MĂĄrio de, 88
Andrade, Oswald de, 101
Andrews, George Reid, 71
ArĂȘas, Vilma, 134
Arias, Arturo, 163
Armstro...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Introduction  The Burdened Legacy of Domestic Servitude in Brazil
  4. One   JĂșlia’s Maids: Servants in the Cultural Imaginary of the Tropical Belle Époque
  5. Two   “My Ol’ Black Mammy”: Childhood Maids in Brazilian Modernist Memoirs
  6. Three   “How to Treat a Maid?”: Misencounters with Servants in Clarice Lispector’s Journalism
  7. Four   Writers in Aprons: Brazilian Servants’ Testimonios
  8. Notes
  9. Works Cited
  10. Index