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Memoirs of a Militia Sergeant

Author : Manuel Antônio de Almeida
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199761671
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of a Militia Sergeant written by Manuel Antônio de Almeida and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-06 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recognized as a turning point in Brazilian literature, this entertaining novel of urban manners follows the neer-do-well Leonardo through his various romantic liaisons and frequent scrapes with the law. First printed in weekly installments in 1852, and later published in two volumes in 1854-55, Memoirs of a Militia Sergeant comprises a series of humorous vignettes held together by the adventures and misfortunes of this young rogue--who matures from a handful of a toddler into a ruffian of a boy and an idler of a young man--and his father, also named Leonardo. Manuel Antonio De Almeida tells a story in everyday language that is rich in detail of life on the streets and the modest circumstances of the free poor of Rio de Janeiro. Through satirical accounts of the escapades of characters who always seem close to the brink of some personal crisis or social misstep, yet who manage to pull through by hook or by crook, Almeida makes a subtle and incisive comment on Brazilian urban society and culture of the nineteenth century. Now available in a new and lively translation, Memoirs of a Military Sergeant occupies an important position in the satirical literature of Brazil and the world.

Memoirs of a Militia Sergeant

Author : Manuel Antônio de Almeida
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780197725238
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Memoirs of a militia sergeant

Author : Manuel Antônio de Almeida
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788563437013
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of a militia sergeant written by Manuel Antônio de Almeida and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A linguagem popular e a vida das camadas pobres e médias são as protagonistas deste romance que faz uma crônica de costumes do Brasil de dom João VI. Publicado pela primeira vez como folhetim, este romance descreve a trajetória do anti-herói Leonardo, endiabrado filho de imigrantes portugueses que, após uma infância atribulada, escolhe a vadiagem como ocupação e, depois de inúmeros percalços, acaba se tornando um sargento de milícias.

Punishment in Paradise

Author : Peter M. Beattie
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822375893
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Punishment in Paradise written by Peter M. Beattie and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-20 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the nineteenth century the idyllic island of Fernando de Noronha, which lies two hundred miles off Brazil's northeastern coast, was home to Brazil's largest forced labor penal colony. In Punishment in Paradise Peter M. Beattie uses Noronha as a case study to understand nineteenth-century Brazil's varied social and cultural values, especially in relation to justice, class, color, civil condition, human rights and labor. As Brazil’s slave population declined after 1850, the use of colonial-era disciplinary practices at Noronha—such as flogging and forced labor—stoked anxieties about human rights and Brazil’s international image. Beattie contends that the treatment of slaves, convicts, and other social categories subject to coercive labor extraction were interconnected and that reforms that benefitted one of these categories made them harder to deny to others. In detailing Noronha's history and the end of slavery as part of an international expansion of human rights, Beattie places Brazil firmly in the purview of Atlantic history.

Rio de Janeiro

Author : Ruy Castro
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 159691985X
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (969 download)

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Download or read book Rio de Janeiro written by Ruy Castro and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-12-07 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ruy Castro delves into the past and present of Rio, where even in periods of comparative calm there has always been a palpable excitement in the air - the feeling of a city on fire. In this spellbinding fifth entry in Bloomsbury's The Writer and the City series, Rio de Janeiro's vibrant history unfolds. While stiff-collared poets flirted with prim young ladies in coffeehouses during the belle époque, revolts were being plotted that almost destroyed the city. We learn how the iconic wave-patterned mosaics of Copacabana pavements were baptized with blood, and how more than a hundred years before the girl from Ipanema passed by, the girls from Ouvidor Street adopted French chic - and never really gave it up. From what is arguably the most breathtakingly beautiful city in the world, the people of Rio - the Cariocas - tell their stories: of cannibals charming European intellectuals; of elegant slaves and their shabby masters; of how a casual chat between two people drinking coffee on Avenida Rio Branco could affect world coffee markets; of an awe-inspiring beach life; of favelas, drugs, police, carnival, football, and music. With his own Carioca good humor and great storytelling gifts, Ruy Castro brings the reader thrillingly close to the flames.

The Tribute of Blood

Author : Peter M. Beattie
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822381109
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book The Tribute of Blood written by Peter M. Beattie and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2001-09-26 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Tribute of Blood Peter M. Beattie analyzes the transformation of army recruitment and service in Brazil between 1864 and 1945, using this history of common soldiers to examine nation building and the social history of Latin America’s largest nation. Tracing the army’s reliance on coercive recruitment to fill its lower ranks, Beattie shows how enlisted service became associated with criminality, perversion, and dishonor, as nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Brazilian officials rounded up the “dishonorable” poor—including petty criminals, vagrants, and “sodomites”—and forced them to serve as soldiers. Beattie looks through sociological, anthropological, and historical lenses to analyze archival sources such as court-martial cases, parliamentary debates, published reports, and the memoirs and correspondence of soldiers and officers. Combining these materials with a colorful array of less traditional sources—such as song lyrics, slang, grammatical evidence, and tattoo analysis—he reveals how the need to reform military recruitment with a conscription lottery became increasingly apparent in the wake of the Paraguayan War of 1865–1870 and again during World War I. Because this crucial reform required more than changing the army’s institutional roles and the conditions of service, The Tribute of Blood is ultimately the story of how entrenched conceptions of manhood, honor, race, citizenship, and nation were transformed throughout Brazil. Those interested in social, military, and South American history, state building and national identity, and the sociology of the poor will be enriched by this pathbreaking study.

Latin Music [2 volumes]

Author : Ilan Stavans
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1751 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book Latin Music [2 volumes] written by Ilan Stavans and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 1751 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This definitive two-volume encyclopedia of Latin music spans 5 centuries and 25 countries, showcasing musicians from Celia Cruz to Plácido Domingo and describing dozens of rhythms and essential themes. Eight years in the making, Latin Music: Musicians, Genres, and Themes is the definitive work on the topic, providing an unparalleled resource for students and scholars of music, Latino culture, Hispanic civilization, popular culture, and Latin American countries. Comprising work from nearly 50 contributors from Spain, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States, this two-volume work showcases how Latin music—regardless of its specific form or cultural origins—is the passionate expression of a people in constant dialogue with the world. The entries in this expansive encyclopedia range over topics as diverse as musical instruments, record cover art, festivals and celebrations, the institution of slavery, feminism, and patriotism. The music, traditions, and history of more than two dozen countries—such as Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Spain, and Venezuela—are detailed, allowing readers to see past common stereotypes and appreciate the many different forms of this broadly defined art form.

Economic Informality and World Literature

Author : Josh Jewell
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031531345
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Economic Informality and World Literature written by Josh Jewell and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Masters and the Slaves

Author : Gilberto Freyre
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520337077
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The Masters and the Slaves written by Gilberto Freyre and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1986.

Porous City

Author : Bruno Carvalho
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1786948591
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (869 download)

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Download or read book Porous City written by Bruno Carvalho and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely and original cultural history of Rio de Janeiro.

Rhythms of Resistance

Author : Peter Fryer
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780819564184
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (641 download)

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Download or read book Rhythms of Resistance written by Peter Fryer and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2000-06 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First published in 2000 by Pluto Press, London, England"--T.p. verso.

Classics Illustrated

Author : William Bryan Jones, Jr.
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476651019
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Classics Illustrated written by William Bryan Jones, Jr. and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-04-17 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its expanded third edition, this definitive work on Classics Illustrated explores the enduring series of comic-book adaptations of literary masterpieces in even greater depth, with twice the number of color plates as in the second edition. Drawing on interviews, correspondence, fanzines, and archival research, the book covers in full detail the work of the artists, editors, scriptwriters, and publishers who contributed to the success of the "World's Finest Juvenile Publication." Many previously unpublished reproductions of original art are included, along with new chapters covering editor Meyer Kaplan, art director L.B. Cole, and artist John Parker; additional information on contributions from Black artists and scriptwriters such as Matt Baker, Ezra Jackson, George D. Lipscomb, and Lorenz Graham; and a complete issue-by-issue listing of significant international series.

A Master on the Periphery of Capitalism

Author : Roberto Schwarz
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822380803
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book A Master on the Periphery of Capitalism written by Roberto Schwarz and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2001-12-12 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Master on the Periphery of Capitalism is a translation (from the original Portuguese) of Roberto Schwarz’s renowned study of the work of Brazilian novelist Machado de Assis (1839–1908). A leading Brazilian theorist and author of the highly influential notion of “misplaced ideas,” Schwarz focuses his literary and cultural analysis on Machado’s The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas, which was published in 1880. Writing in the Marxist tradition, Schwarz investigates in particular how social structure gets internalized as literary form, arguing that Machado’s style replicates and reveals the deeply embedded class divisions of nineteenth-century Brazil. Widely acknowledged as the most important novelist to have written in Latin America before 1940, Machado had a surprisingly modern style. Schwarz notes that the unprecedented wit, sarcasm, structural inventiveness, and mercurial changes of tone and subject matter found in The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas marked a crucial moment in the history of Latin American literature. He argues that Machado’s vanguard narrative reflects the Brazilian owner class and its peculiar status in both national and international contexts, and shows why this novel’s success was no accident. The author was able to confront some of the most prestigious ideologies of the nineteenth century with some uncomfortable truths, not the least of which was that slavery remained the basis of the Brazilian economy. A Master on the Periphery of Capitalism will appeal to those with interests in Latin American literature, nineteenth century history, and Marxist literary theory.

Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women's Rights Movement

Author : Sally Gregory McMillen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195393333
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women's Rights Movement written by Sally Gregory McMillen and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2009 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Separate spheres : law, faith, tradition -- Fashioning a better world -- Seneca Falls -- The woman's movement begins, 1850-1860 -- War, disillusionment, division -- Friction and reunification, 1870-1890 -- Epilogue : make the world better.

Reading Rio de Janeiro

Author : Zephyr Frank
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804797307
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Reading Rio de Janeiro written by Zephyr Frank and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-06 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading Rio de Janeiro blazes a new trail for understanding the cultural history of 19th-century Brazil. To bring the social fabric of Rio de Janeiro alive, Zephyr Frank flips the historian's usual interest in literature as a source of evidence and, instead, uses the historical context to understand literature. By focusing on the theme of social integration through the novels of José de Alencar, Machado de Assis, and Aluisio Azevedo, the author draws the reader's attention to the way characters are caught between conflicting moral imperatives as they encounter the newly mobile, capitalist, urban society, so different from the slave-based plantations of the past. Some characters grow and triumph in this setting; others are defeated by it. Though literature infuses this social history of 19th-century Rio, it is replete with maps, graphs, non-fiction sources, and statistical data and analysis that are the historian's stock-in-trade. By connecting a literary understanding of the social problems with the quantitative data traditional historical methods provide, Frank creates a richer and deeper understanding of society in 19th-century Rio.

Capoeira

Author : Gerard Taylor
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 1556436017
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (564 download)

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Download or read book Capoeira written by Gerard Taylor and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2005-10-13 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in a two-volume series on capoeira, Volume One traces the origins of the popular martial art and dance form from the beginning of the slave trade in the Americas in the 1500s to the early years of the Brazilian Republic in the 20th century. Focusing on the people and events that shaped the art form in Brazil prior to the "academy" period of the last century, Capoeira: The Jogo de Angola from Luanda to Cyberspace explores the subject from many vantage points. Author Gerard Taylor explains how the fighting techniques of African forces laid the groundwork for capoeira movements. He shows how work songs, religion, and various percussive traditions and instruments shaped capoeira music over the years. Drawing on archival sources and historical accounts, the book paints a vivid picture of capoeira’s dramatic evolution from the sugar plantations of Pernambuco through the brutal backstreets of Rio and the Minas Gerais goldmines on its way to becoming a world-class practice.

Gender, Discourse, and Desire in Twentieth-century Brazilian Women's Literature

Author : Cristina Ferreira Pinto
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781557533524
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (335 download)

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Download or read book Gender, Discourse, and Desire in Twentieth-century Brazilian Women's Literature written by Cristina Ferreira Pinto and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work studies the poetic and narrative strategies 20th century Brazilian women writers use to achieve new forms of representation of the female body, sexuality and desire, while deconstructing cultural myths of femininity and female behaviour.