Machado Black and Blur

Pedro Meira Monteiro

doi:10.1590/SciELOPreprints.6518

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Machado Black and Blur

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Pedro Meira Monteiro Princeton University https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2536-2991

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/SciELOPreprints.6518

Keywords:

Machado de Assis, Black struggle, memory and image, Fred Moten, Eduardo de Assis Duarte

Abstract

Paying attention to the construction of the images of the author over time, I propose the inadequacy of the procedures that intend to rescue the “real Machado de Assis’. By discussing certain strides in the criticism, photographs, posts, and a recent film, I connect the Machadian perspective with Fred Moten’s propositions on the oscillating nature of the Black struggle, and Eduardo de Assis Duarte's propositions on Machado’s indirect treatment of history.