![]() ![]() It gets more than one star because the information is actually really interesting from a historical perspective, but this book was SO difficult to read. Part of that could be chalked up to translation difficulties, as the original text was in Portuguese, but even so, the translation was inconsistent (switching between "an historical" and "a historical" without rhyme or reason, for instance), and the book was full of incomplete sentences that led nowhere. Rather, it provides a historical perspective on a woman's agency, the cultural universe she inhabited, and the myths that were created around her in subsequent centuries, as Chica de Silva came to symbolize both an example of racial democracy and the stereotype of licentiousness and sensuality always attributed to the black or mulatta female in the Brazilian popular imagination.more But the story of Chica da Silva is not merely the personal history of a woman, or the social history of a colonial Brazilian town. The child of an African slave from the Costa da Mina and a Brazilian military nobleman of Portuguese descent, Chica da Silva won her freedom using social and matrimonial strategies. The child of an African slave from the Costa da Mina and a Brazilian military nobleman of Portuguese descent, Chica da Silva won her J�nia Ferreira Furtado offers a fascinating study of the world of a freed woman of color in a small Brazilian town where itinerant merchants, former slaves, Portuguese administrators, and concubines interact across social and cultural lines. ![]() ![]() ![]() J�nia Ferreira Furtado offers a fascinating study of the world of a freed woman of color in a small Brazilian town where itinerant merchants, former slaves, Portuguese administrators, and concubines interact across social and cultural lines. ![]()
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