Flannery, Mércia Regina Santana2023-05-232023-05-232014-01-012016-04-21https://repository.upenn.edu/handle/20.500.14332/45779In Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity, the sociologist Erving Goffman (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1963) discusses the relationship between individuals who possess a social stigma and the "normals" (8). Reginald Daniel's new book, Machado de Assis: Multiracial Identity and the Brazilian Novelist, discusses the stigmatized identity of the most celebrated Brazilian novelist as perceived in his literary work. Machado's biography is traced, his work commented on, and we are offered a picture of the Brazilian mulatto writer as a way to understand the inclusion, or lack thereof, of race relations and black identification in his writings.All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations used for purposes of scholarly citation, none of this work may be reproduced in any form by any means without written permission from the publisher. For information address the University of Pennsylvania Press, 3905 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-4112.Reginald G. DanielMachado de Assisrace in literatureidentitystigmaMércia Santana FlanneryLatin American Languages and SocietiesLatin American LiteraturePortuguese LiteratureRace and EthnicitySocial and Cultural AnthropologySociology of CultureArticle