Junia Ferreira Furtado offers a fascinating study of the world of a freed woman of color in a small Brazilian town where itinerant merchants, former slaves, Portuguese administrators and concubines interact across social and cultural lines. The child of an African slave and a Brazilian military nobleman of Portuguese descent, Chica da Silva won her freedom using social and matrimonial strategies. But her story is not merely the personal history of a woman, or the social history of a colonial Brazilian town. Rather, it provides a historical perspective on the cultural universe she inhabited, and the myths that were created around her in subsequent centuries, as Chica de Silva came to symbolize both an example of racial democracy and the stereotype of licentiousness and sensuality always attributed to the black or mulatta female in the Brazilian popular imagination.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13
9780521711555
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96545361
Product Key Features
Author
Junia Ferreira Furtado
Publication Name
Chica Da Silva: a Brazilian Slave of the Eighteenth Century
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
2008
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
358 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229 mm
Item Width
152 mm
Item Weight
480 g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
Title_Author
Junia Ferreira Furtado
LeafCats
2228
Series Title
New Approaches to the Americas
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