Press, Power, and Culture in Imperial Brazil introduces recent Brazilian scholarship to English-language readers, providing fresh perspectives on newspaper and periodical culture in the Brazilian empire from 1822 to 1889. Through a multifaceted exploration of the periodical press, contributors to this volume offer new insights into the workings of Brazilian power, culture, and public life. Collectively arguing that newspapers are contested projects rather than stable recordings of daily life, individual chapters demonstrate how the periodical press played a prominent role in creating and contesting hierarchies of race, gender, class, and culture. Contributors challenge traditional views of newspapers and magazines as mechanisms of state- and nation-building. Rather, the scholars in this volume view them as integral to current debates over the nature of Brazil. Including perspectives from Brazil's leading scholars of the periodical press, this volume will be the starting point for future scholarship on print culture for years to come.
Hendrik Kraay is a professor of history at the University of Calgary and the author of Days of National Festivity in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1823-1889.
Teresa Cribelli is an associate professor of history at the University of Alabama and the author of Industrial Forests and Mechanical Marvels: Modernization in Nineteenth-Century Brazil.
Celso Thomas Castilho is an associate professor of history at Vanderbilt University and the author of Slave Emancipation and Transformations in Brazilian Political Citizenship.
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Introduction: From Colonial Gazettes to the "Largest Circulation in South America"
Hendrik Kraay, Celso Thomas Castilho, Teresa Cribelli
Chapter One. The "Print Arena": Press, Politics, and the Public Sphere, 1822-1840
Marcello Basile
Chapter Two. "Adapted to Our Customs and Dictated by Our Interests": The Press and the African Slave Trade, 1831-1840
Alain El Youssef
Chapter Three. Printers, Typographers, and Readers: Slavery and Print Culture
Rodrigo Camargo de Godoi
Chapter Four. Outbreaks, Shares, and Contracts: The Press and the Migrant Trade
José Juan Pérez Meléndez
Chapter Five. Fictionalizing Crônicas: Transformations of an Article Genre
Ludmila de Souza Maia
Chapter Six. "FOR RENT" and "FOR SALE": Newspapers, Advertising, Property, and Markets in Rio de Janeiro, 1820s-1890s
Matthew Nestler and Zephyr Frank
Chapter Seven. Much More Than Images: Visual Culture and the Public Sphere in Illustrated Satirical Magazines
Arnaldo Lucas Pires Junior
Chapter Eight. To "Judge the State of This Province": Correspondence to Rio de Janeiro Newspapers from Bahia, 1868
Hendrik Kraay
Chapter Nine. Apedidos and Public Discourse: Paid Letters and Articles in the Jornal do Commercio, 1870
Teresa Cribelli
Chapter Ten. The Sun Rises in the North: Brazilian Periodicals Published in the United States in the 1870s
Roberto Saba
Chapter Eleven. A "Gallery of Illustrious Men of Color": Recife's O Homem, the Black Press, and Transatlantic Literary Genres
Celso Thomas Castilho
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List of Contributors
Index
