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Women, Bandits, and Power in the Brazilian Northeast: Rachel de Queiroz

Renata R. M. Wasserman is Professor Emerita of English and Comparative Literature at Wayne State University. Her books include Exotic Nations (1994), on literature and cultural identity in Brazil and the US, and, most recently, her translation of Raul Pompeia’s novelOAteneu (1888; The Athenaeum, 2015). This essay has been adapted from “AWoman’s Place: Rachel de Queiroz,” chapter 2 in her book Central at the Margin: Five Brazilian Women Writers (Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2007).