Sonia Roncador
Biographic Data
| ID | 936706 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sonia Roncador |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sonia |
| FAMILY NAME | Roncador |
| SIGNATURE | RONCADOR S |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1788-9227 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
White criadas and the ‘servant crisis’ in pre-abolition Rio de Janeiro
This article interrogates the problematic relation of whiteness and servitude in mid to late-nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro, when a fast-growing number of Portuguese female migrants, mostly from the Azorean islands, sought employment in households where domestic service had been hitherto associated with black slavery. As I argue, the accounts of elite domestic lives in popular print cultures at the time reveal a nascent narrative of ‘servant c…
As criades de Júlia
Sonia Roncador studies the figure of the maid in the work of Júlia Lopes de Almeida, one of the most influential woman writers of the Brazilian belle époque. In both her fiction and essay writing, Almeida addresses the renegotiation of the old master/slave dynamic, transposed along the lines of housewife/domestic servant relations following the abolition of slavery. Through the discussion of two of Almeida's works in particular, the "how-to manua…
Domestic Servants in Literature and Testimony in Brazil, 1889–1999
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 maid
O demonio familiar: Lavadeiras, amas-de-leite e criadas na narrativa de Julia Lopes de Almeida
This paper studies the images of domestic servants, and the strategic uses of these images in the works by Brazilian writer Júlia Lopes de Almeida (1863–1934) published in the first years of the Republic. According to historian Sandra Lauderdale Graham, the “modern” or bourgeois vision of the maid stems from patrons’ (sense of ) lost of control and authority over their servants in the years following the abolition of slavery (1888). It is also a …
A mãe-preta de Freyre e Lins do Rego
Identificadas porem a vida na escravidao, algu mas dessas pobres creaturas chegaram mesmo a idolatrar seus algozes; algumas d'ellas foram de dicadas em extremo; e, sem poderem erguer fran camente os olhos, bemdiziam aquelles que Ihes davam o pao para alimento e o dura trabalho para amenidade de suas vidas. Mai foi uma des sas creaturas; sua vida porem nao deve ficar no olvido, pois que symbolisa a existencia de um'alma dotada de sentimentos extra…
Quando o tio Sam pegar no tamborim: Uma perspectiva transcultural do Brasil
Las máscaras de la apertura: Un contexto literario
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Las máscaras de la apertura: Un contexto literario
Quando o tio Sam pegar no tamborim: Uma perspectiva transcultural do Brasil
O demonio familiar: Lavadeiras, amas-de-leite e criadas na narrativa de Julia Lopes de Almeida
This paper studies the images of domestic servants, and the strategic uses of these images in the works by Brazilian writer Júlia Lopes de Almeida (1863–1934) published in the first years of the Republic. According to historian Sandra Lauderdale Graham, the “modern” or bourgeois vision of the maid stems from patrons’ (sense of ) lost of control and authority over their servants in the years following the abolition of slavery (1888). It is also a …
A mãe-preta de Freyre e Lins do Rego
Identificadas porem a vida na escravidao, algu mas dessas pobres creaturas chegaram mesmo a idolatrar seus algozes; algumas d'ellas foram de dicadas em extremo; e, sem poderem erguer fran camente os olhos, bemdiziam aquelles que Ihes davam o pao para alimento e o dura trabalho para amenidade de suas vidas. Mai foi uma des sas creaturas; sua vida porem nao deve ficar no olvido, pois que symbolisa a existencia de um'alma dotada de sentimentos extra…
Domestic Servants in Literature and Testimony in Brazil, 1889–1999
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 maid
As criades de Júlia
Sonia Roncador studies the figure of the maid in the work of Júlia Lopes de Almeida, one of the most influential woman writers of the Brazilian belle époque. In both her fiction and essay writing, Almeida addresses the renegotiation of the old master/slave dynamic, transposed along the lines of housewife/domestic servant relations following the abolition of slavery. Through the discussion of two of Almeida's works in particular, the "how-to manua…
White criadas and the ‘servant crisis’ in pre-abolition Rio de Janeiro
This article interrogates the problematic relation of whiteness and servitude in mid to late-nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro, when a fast-growing number of Portuguese female migrants, mostly from the Azorean islands, sought employment in households where domestic service had been hitherto associated with black slavery. As I argue, the accounts of elite domestic lives in popular print cultures at the time reveal a nascent narrative of ‘servant c…
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