SCA-UA 572 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Senhor, Dom Casmurro, Romanticism
5 Feb 2015
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Caetana : status as slave > status of women. Literacy: had no effect for caetana but it was the downfall for. Her last wishes were not brought to reality. For caetana it didn"t matter because she wasn"t involved in court proceedings: forced to marry vs never married. Because she didn"t marry she doesn"t have to share any of it. In cia"s family"s priority was to keep property consolidated within the family. Slide: gender and honor: honor: social recognition, not necessarily just behavior (ex/ slaves , women were only honorable within context of honorable family) Slide: honorific titles: dom is only used for the emperor, high church officials (archbishops, doutor, senhor, dona. Slide: the house and the street (roberto da matta) Slide: joaquim maria machado de assis (dom casmurro: he had a wealthy patron who funded his education and made it possible for him to become a writer, patronage was crucial in cases of social mobility.
