Jane-Marie Collins

List of John Benjamins publications for which Jane-Marie Collins plays a role.

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Collins, Jane-Marie 2024 Chapter 6. Politics and faith, slavery and abolition in nineteenth-century Brazilian literature: Maria Firmina dos Reis’s Úrsula (1859) and A escrava (1887) A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery: The Atlantic world and beyond, Dobie, Madeleine, Mads Anders Baggesgaard and Karen-Margrethe Simonsen (eds.), pp. 112–137 | Chapter
The first Brazilian abolitionist novel, Úrsula (1859), was written by a Black woman, Maria Firmina dos Reis (1825–1917). Reis’s entire literary production was lost for over a century and discovery and recovery commenced only in the 1960s. This chapter examines Úrsula, and Reis’s short story A… read more