Domestic Servants In Literature And Testimony In Brazil, 1889-1999

Drawing from a variety of historical sources, theory, and fictional and non-fictional production, this book addresses the cultural imaginary of domestic servants in modern Brazil and demonstrates maids' symbolic centrality to shifting notions of servitude, subordination, femininity, and domesticity.

• • Author: S. Roncador
• • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• • Publication Date: Feb 05, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 249 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1349469769
• • ISBN-13: 9781349469765