Silva, Ana Cláudia Suriani da (Ed).
(2023)
The Bankruptcy - A Novel by Júlia Lopes de Almeida.
Literature and Translation.
UCL Press: London, UK.
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Set in the early years of the Old Republic after the abolition of slavery, Júlia Lopes de Almeida's The Bankruptcy depicts the rise and fall of a wealthy coffee exporter against a kaleidoscopic background of glamour, poverty, seduction, and financial speculation. The novel introduces readers to a turbulent period in Brazilian history seething with new ideas about democracy, women’s emancipation, and the role of religion in society. Originally published in 1901, its prescient critiques of financial capitalism and the patriarchal family remain relevant today. In her lifetime, Júlia Lopes de Almeida was compared to Machado de Assis, the most important Brazilian writer of the nineteenth century. She was also considered for the inaugural list of members of the Brazilian Academy of Letters, but was excluded because of her gender. In the decades after her death, her work was largely forgotten. This publication, a winner of the English PEN award, marks the first novel-length translation of Almeida’s writing into English, including an Introduction to the novel and a Translators' Preface, and accompanies a general rediscovery of her extraordinary body of work in Brazil.
| Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| Title: | The Bankruptcy - A Novel by Júlia Lopes de Almeida |
| ISBN-13: | 9781800085664 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781800085664 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800085664 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Text © Introduction, the authors 2023 Images © Copyright holders named in captions, 2023 The authors have asserted their rights under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the authors of this work. A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from The British Library. This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Non-derivative 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). This licence allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work for personal and non-commercial use providing author and publisher attribution is clearly stated. Attribution should include the following information: Almeida, Júlia Lopes de. 2023. The Bankruptcy: A Novel. Edited by Ana Cláudia Suriani da Silva. Translated by Cintia Kozonoi Vezzani and Jason Rhys Parry. London: UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800085664 Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at http://creativecom mons.org/licenses/ |
| Keywords: | literature, translation, World literature, Brazilian literature, feminism |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > SELCS |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10173031 |
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