Cristina Ferreira Pinto-Bailey has taught at the University of Texas at Austin, Texas State University, and Pontifícia Universidade Católica–Rio Grande do Sul. Her scholarly work and literary translations appear in Latin American Literature Today, Absinthe, Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas, Revistabrasileira de literatura comparada, Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures, and other venues. Paulo Dutra is Associate Professor of Portuguese and Spanish at the University of New Mexico. He is the author of Aversão oficial: resumida (Malê, 2018), abliterações (Malê, 2019), and O alívio da influência: Machado, Borges e Cervantes na América Latina (EDUFES).

• IntroductionCristina Ferreira Pinto-Bailey and Paulo DutraI. Pioneering Voices in Afro-Brazilian Literature & Cultural ProductionChapter 1: Cristina Ferreira Pinto-Bailey, “Maria Firmina dos Reis’s Abolitionist Narrative”Chapter 2: Paulo Moreira, “Apulco de Castro: A Black Radical Republican in the Empire”Chapter 3: Earl E. Fitz, “Afro-Brazilian Literature Comes to the United States: Reading Machado de Assis in the Context of Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and Toni Morrison”Chapter 4: Luiz Fernando Valente, “The Transformative Sociology of Alberto Guerreiro Ramos (1915-1982)”Chapter 5: Juan Suárez Ontaneda, “Quilombo(s) in the Classroom: A Guide for Teaching the Oeuvre of Abdias Nascimento”II. The Politics & Poetics of Racial IdentityChapter 6: Maria Aparecida Andrade Salgueiro, “Escrevivência: a Literary Concept of Afro-Brazilian Identity”Chapter 7: Leonora S. Paula, “Encruzilhadas and Black Geographies in Eliana Alves Cruz’s O Crime do Cais do Valongo”Chapter 8: Paulo Dutra, “Racionais MC’s: Brazilian Rap and the Poetics of Spatiality”Chapter 9: Ayodeji R. Olugbuyiro, “‘In the Land of the Orixás’: Yoruba Divinity Archetypes in Selected Afro-Brazilian Poems”Chapter 10: Jordan Jones, “Disconcerting Self-Reflection: Contemporary How-To Guides for Thinking Through Race”III. Gender and Black AgencyChapter 11: Felipe Fanuel, “Unraveling the Knots of the Afro-Diasporic Novel: Language, History, and Transformation in Eliana Alves Cruz’s Nada Digo de Ti, Que em Ti Não Veja”Chapter 12: Niyi Afolabi, “Afro-Brazilian Feminine Agency and Insurgency: Space and the Political Quest for Identity Self-Fashioning” Chapter 13: John Maddox, “Afro-Lesbian Queens in the Land of the Future, Brazil”Chapter 14: Daniel da Silva, “Resonant Lemonade. Black Queer Femme Diaspora in Linn da Quebrada’s Pajubá”IV. Contributors

Cristina Ferreira Pinto-Bailey has taught at the University of Texas at Austin, Texas State University, and Pontifícia Universidade Católica–Rio Grande do Sul. Her scholarly work and literary translations appear in Latin American Literature Today, Absinthe, Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas, Revistabrasileira de literatura comparada, Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures, and other venues. Paulo Dutra is Associate Professor of Portuguese and Spanish at the University of New Mexico. He is the author of Aversão oficial: resumida (Malê, 2018), abliterações (Malê, 2019), and O alívio da influência: Machado, Borges e Cervantes na América Latina (EDUFES).

• IntroductionCristina Ferreira Pinto-Bailey and Paulo DutraI. Pioneering Voices in Afro-Brazilian Literature & Cultural ProductionChapter 1: Cristina Ferreira Pinto-Bailey, “Maria Firmina dos Reis’s Abolitionist Narrative”Chapter 2: Paulo Moreira, “Apulco de Castro: A Black Radical Republican in the Empire”Chapter 3: Earl E. Fitz, “Afro-Brazilian Literature Comes to the United States: Reading Machado de Assis in the Context of Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and Toni Morrison”Chapter 4: Luiz Fernando Valente, “The Transformative Sociology of Alberto Guerreiro Ramos (1915-1982)”Chapter 5: Juan Suárez Ontaneda, “Quilombo(s) in the Classroom: A Guide for Teaching the Oeuvre of Abdias Nascimento”II. The Politics & Poetics of Racial IdentityChapter 6: Maria Aparecida Andrade Salgueiro, “Escrevivência: a Literary Concept of Afro-Brazilian Identity”Chapter 7: Leonora S. Paula, “Encruzilhadas and Black Geographies in Eliana Alves Cruz’s O Crime do Cais do Valongo”Chapter 8: Paulo Dutra, “Racionais MC’s: Brazilian Rap and the Poetics of Spatiality”Chapter 9: Ayodeji R. Olugbuyiro, “‘In the Land of the Orixás’: Yoruba Divinity Archetypes in Selected Afro-Brazilian Poems”Chapter 10: Jordan Jones, “Disconcerting Self-Reflection: Contemporary How-To Guides for Thinking Through Race”III. Gender and Black AgencyChapter 11: Felipe Fanuel, “Unraveling the Knots of the Afro-Diasporic Novel: Language, History, and Transformation in Eliana Alves Cruz’s Nada Digo de Ti, Que em Ti Não Veja”Chapter 12: Niyi Afolabi, “Afro-Brazilian Feminine Agency and Insurgency: Space and the Political Quest for Identity Self-Fashioning” Chapter 13: John Maddox, “Afro-Lesbian Queens in the Land of the Future, Brazil”Chapter 14: Daniel da Silva, “Resonant Lemonade. Black Queer Femme Diaspora in Linn da Quebrada’s Pajubá”IV. Contributors

Cristina Ferreira Pinto-Bailey has taught at the University of Texas at Austin, Texas State University, and Pontifícia Universidade Católica–Rio Grande do Sul. Her scholarly work and literary translations appear in Latin American Literature Today, Absinthe, Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas, Revistabrasileira de literatura comparada, Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures, and other venues. Paulo Dutra is Associate Professor of Portuguese and Spanish at the University of New Mexico. He is the author of Aversão oficial: resumida (Malê, 2018), abliterações (Malê, 2019), and O alívio da influência: Machado, Borges e Cervantes na América Latina (EDUFES).

• IntroductionCristina Ferreira Pinto-Bailey and Paulo DutraI. Pioneering Voices in Afro-Brazilian Literature & Cultural ProductionChapter 1: Cristina Ferreira Pinto-Bailey, “Maria Firmina dos Reis’s Abolitionist Narrative”Chapter 2: Paulo Moreira, “Apulco de Castro: A Black Radical Republican in the Empire”Chapter 3: Earl E. Fitz, “Afro-Brazilian Literature Comes to the United States: Reading Machado de Assis in the Context of Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and Toni Morrison”Chapter 4: Luiz Fernando Valente, “The Transformative Sociology of Alberto Guerreiro Ramos (1915-1982)”Chapter 5: Juan Suárez Ontaneda, “Quilombo(s) in the Classroom: A Guide for Teaching the Oeuvre of Abdias Nascimento”II. The Politics & Poetics of Racial IdentityChapter 6: Maria Aparecida Andrade Salgueiro, “Escrevivência: a Literary Concept of Afro-Brazilian Identity”Chapter 7: Leonora S. Paula, “Encruzilhadas and Black Geographies in Eliana Alves Cruz’s O Crime do Cais do Valongo”Chapter 8: Paulo Dutra, “Racionais MC’s: Brazilian Rap and the Poetics of Spatiality”Chapter 9: Ayodeji R. Olugbuyiro, “‘In the Land of the Orixás’: Yoruba Divinity Archetypes in Selected Afro-Brazilian Poems”Chapter 10: Jordan Jones, “Disconcerting Self-Reflection: Contemporary How-To Guides for Thinking Through Race”III. Gender and Black AgencyChapter 11: Felipe Fanuel, “Unraveling the Knots of the Afro-Diasporic Novel: Language, History, and Transformation in Eliana Alves Cruz’s Nada Digo de Ti, Que em Ti Não Veja”Chapter 12: Niyi Afolabi, “Afro-Brazilian Feminine Agency and Insurgency: Space and the Political Quest for Identity Self-Fashioning” Chapter 13: John Maddox, “Afro-Lesbian Queens in the Land of the Future, Brazil”Chapter 14: Daniel da Silva, “Resonant Lemonade. Black Queer Femme Diaspora in Linn da Quebrada’s Pajubá”IV. Contributors