Machado de Assis, the Apprentice Journalist
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4014687 |
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| Authors | Cristiane Costa (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Pages | 561-569 |
| Publication date | 2017-03-16 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1521-804X • E-ISSN: 2573-1432 |
| Publisher | University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.62791/5bay3463 |
| OpenAlex | W4401213143 |
| Language | EN |
This paper analyzes Machado de Assis' literary career from the standpoint of journalism. Machado followed the same strategy to find his path as other writer-journalists of color, such as Teixeira e Souza and Paula Brito, had already done. After all, how could a poor, young mulatto, an orphan and epileptic, come to be the most famous writer in slave-owning Brazil? Only by entering the great halls of literature through the service entrance of journalism
Apprenticeship · Archaeology · Art · Cultural, Media, and Literary Studies · History · Linguistics and Education Research · Literature, Culture, and Criticism
| Highly cited | No |
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