Press, power, and culture in imperial Brazil / edited by Hendrik Kraay, Celso Thomas Castilho, and Teresa Cribelli.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of illustrations -- Preface / Hendrik Kraay, Celso Thomas Castilho, and Teresa Cribelli -- Abbreviations -- Note on currency and orthography -- Introduction. From colonial gazettes to the "largest circulation in South America" / Hendrik Kraay, Celso Thomas Castilho, and Teresa Cribelli -- One. The "print arena" : Press, politics, and the public sphere, 1822-1840 / Marcello Basile -- Two. "Adapted to our customs and dictated by our interests" : The press and the African slave trade, 1831-1840 / Alain El Youssef -- Three. Printers, typographers, and readers : Slavery and print culture / Rodrigo Camargo de Godoi -- Four. Outbreaks, shares, and contracts : The press and the migrant trade / Jos�e Juan P�erez Mel�endez -- Five. Fictionalizing 'Cr�onicas' : Transformations of an article genre / Ludmila de Souza Maia -- Six. "For Rent" and "For Sale" : Newspapers, advertising, property, and markets in Rio de Janeiro, 1820s-1890s / Matthew Nestler and Zephyr Frank -- Seven. Much more than images : Visual culture and the public sphere in illustrated satirical magazines / Arnaldo Lucas Pires Junior -- Eight. To "judge the state of this province" : Correspondence to Rio de Janeiro newspapers from Bahia, 1868 / Hendrik Kraay -- Nine. 'Apedidos' and public discourse : Paid letters and articles in the 'Jornal do Commercio', 1870 / Teresa Cribelli -- Ten. The sun rises in the north : Brazilian periodicals published in the United States in the 1870s / Roberto Saba -- Eleven. A "gallery of illustrious men of color" : Recife's 'O Homem', the Black press, and Transatlantic literary genres / Celso Thomas Castilho -- Bibliography -- List of contributors -- Index.

"'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."--publisher description.

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