Press, Power, and Culture in Imperial Brazil

Edited by Hendrik Kraay, Celso Thomas Castilho and Teresa Cribelli

Published by: University of New Mexico Press

320 Pages, 6.00 x 9.00 in, 17 figs., 11 tables

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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. He is the author of Days of National Festivity in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1823-1889.

Celso Thomas Castilho is an associate professor of history at Vanderbilt University and the author of Slave Emancipation and Transformations in Brazilian Political Citizenship.

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.

"Reading this volume feels akin to the delight of looking through a kaleidoscope and seeing multiple permutations of research on the same newspaper collections."--Chelsea Berry, H-Nationalism

"This uniformly high-quality collection suggests that print media, including the material read by literate slaves, had a profound role in shaping Brazilian culture. A highly readable study."--Choice

"The essays in this collection are well researched, well written, engaging, and enjoyable. Moreover, this book is accessible to a wide variety of readers in many fields: Latin American studies, African diaspora studies, media studies, history, political science, even general readership."--Steven Byrd, The Americas

"Myriad contributions that both stand on their own and create a coherent whole."--Judy Bieber, Hispanic American Historical Review

"An excellent introduction to nineteenth-century Brazilian newspapers."--Elizabeth Anne Kuznesof, author of Household Economy and Urban Development: Sᾶo Paulo, 1765 to 1836

"This volume gathers a dynamic and original collection of essays that shed new light on how Brazilians of all backgrounds used the press to participate in public debates."--Oscar de la Torre, author of The People of the River: Nature and Identity in Black Amazonia, 1835-1945

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Preface
Abbreviations
Note on Currency and Orthography

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

Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index