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  • Chapter 3 - Coffee

  • from Part I - Commodities
  • Edited by Fernando Degiovanni, City University of New York, Javier Uriarte, Stony Brook University, State University of New York
  • Book:
    Latin American Literature in Transition 1870–1930
    Published online:
    14 January 2023
    Print publication:
    08 December 2022, pp 44-58

  • Summary

    The production of coffee for export organized racial capitalism in Brazil and Colombia during the late nineteenth and the early twentieth century. The literary fiction from this period reveals an effort by the intellectuals of these countries to conceptualize their nations in the face of the organization of their national economies around deeply racialized modes of production. This chapter surveys a wide range of this fiction, including texts by José Bento Monteiro Lobato, Fernando González, Mário de Andrade, and José Restrepo Jaramillo. It also puts this fiction in dialogue with nonfictional texts such as essays by the Swiss-French writer Blaise Cendrars and the Colombian economist Alejandro López. The chapter shows that the imbrication of racialization and capitalism is particularly evident after the end of the coffee boom in 1929, when writers became more skeptical of the triumphalist narratives of the coffee industry.