Foreword: Machado de Assis: the Brazilian Master Then and Now Nelson H. Vieira
Introduction: Lamonte Aidoo and Daniel F. Silva
Part I: Situating Machado de Assis in History, Literature, and Philosophy
1 Machado de Assis: Creator and Character in a Troubled Scene Lilia Moritz Schwarcz
2 Machado de Assis and Realism: A Literary Genealogy Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
3 Machado de Assis and Pascal Pedro Meira Monteiro
Part II: Machado on Race, Identity, and Society
4 Machado de Assis: From “Tragic Mulatto” to Human Tragicomedy G. Reginald Daniel
5 “Father Versus Mother”: Slavery and its Apparatuses Fernando Rocha
6 The “Chinese Question” in Machado’s Journalism Sonia Roncador
Part III: Women in Machado’s Work
7 Writing Womanhood in the New Brazil: Machado’s Lição de Botânica Earl E. Fitz
8 Curiosity: Undecidability and Gender in Dom Casmurro Marta Peixoto
Part IV: Machado on Masculinity and Queer Relations
9 Machado’s Wounded Males Luiz Fernando Valente
10 Homoaffectivity Exemplified in Dom Casmurro Camilo Gomides
11 Masculinity and Matrimonial Secrets in Dom Casmurro Richard Miskolci
Part V: Machado, Allegory, and the Narration of Violence
12 Machado’s Tales of the Fantastic: Allegory and the Macabre M. Elizabeth Ginway
13 Machado de Assis and the Secret Heart of Literature Paulo Moreira
14 Framing Violence: Narrator and Reader in “Father versus Mother” Giulia Ricco. .