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Utopias of Otherness

Author : Fernando Arenas
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452905363
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Utopias of Otherness written by Fernando Arenas and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forges a new understanding of how these two Lusophone nations are connected. The closely entwined histories of Portugal and Brazil remain key references for understanding developments--past and present--in either country. Accordingly, Fernando Arenas considers Portugal and Brazil in relation to one another in this exploration of changing definitions of nationhood, subjectivity, and utopias in both cultures. Examining the two nations' shared language and histories as well as their cultural, social, and political points of divergence, Arenas pursues these definitive changes through the realms of literature, intellectual thought, popular culture, and political discourse. Both Brazil and Portugal are subject to the economic, political, and cultural forces of postmodern globalization. Arenas analyzes responses to these trends in contemporary writers including Jose Saramago, Caio Fernando Abreu, Maria Isabel Barreno, Vergilio Ferreira, Clarice Lispector, and Maria Gabriela Llansol. Ultimately, Utopias of Otherness shows how these writers have redefined the concept of nationhood, not only through their investment in utopian or emancipatory causes such as Marxist revolution, women's liberation, or sexual revolution but also by shifting their attention to alternative modes of conceiving the ethical and political realms.

Exile within Exiles

Author : James N. Green
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478002352
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Exile within Exiles written by James N. Green and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-14 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herbert Daniel was a significant and complex figure in Brazilian leftist revolutionary politics and social activism from the mid-1960s until his death in 1992. As a medical student, he joined a revolutionary guerrilla organization but was forced to conceal his sexual identity from his comrades, a situation Daniel described as internal exile. After a government crackdown, he spent much of the 1970s in Europe, where his political self-education continued. He returned to Brazil in 1981, becoming engaged in electoral politics and social activism to champion gay rights, feminism, and environmental justice, achieving global recognition for fighting discrimination against those with HIV/AIDS. In Exile within Exiles, James N. Green paints a full and dynamic portrait of Daniel's deep commitment to leftist politics, using Daniel's personal and political experiences to investigate the opposition to Brazil's military dictatorship, the left's construction of a revolutionary masculinity, and the challenge that the transition to democracy posed to radical movements. Green positions Daniel as a vital bridge linking former revolutionaries to the new social movements, engendering productive dialogue between divergent perspectives in his writings and activism.

Kate Chopin Reconsidered

Author : Lynda S. Boren
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807124352
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Kate Chopin Reconsidered written by Lynda S. Boren and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1999-09-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this indispensable volume, fourteen intellectually compelling essays consider Kate Chopin’s life and art from a variety of critical perspectives—biographical, New Historicist, materialist, poststructuralist, feminist—with several of the pieces focusing on Chopin’s classic novel, The Awakening. “ A worthwhile collection of essays offering usefully eclectic critical perspectives of Chopin and her work.”—Mississippi Quarterly

Metalepsis

Author : Sebastian Matzner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192586297
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Metalepsis written by Sebastian Matzner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-28 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Metalepsis' is a term from classical rhetoric, but in the twentieth century, it was re-framed more broadly as a crossing of the boundaries that separate distinct narrative worlds. This modern notion of metalepsis, introduced by Gérard Genette, has so far largely been theorized on the basis of examples from post-modern novels and films. Yet metalepsis has a much greater potential to address all sorts of transgressions between 'worlds' or 'levels', not only in post-modern but also pre-modern literature. This volume explores metalepsis in classical antiquity, considering questions such as: if metalepsis consists fundamentally in the breaking down of barriers, what sort of barriers and what sort of transgressions can the concept be fruitfully applied to? Can it be used within approaches other than narratology? Does metalepsis require recognisable levels of reality and fictionality, and if so, what role might be played by other planes, such as the past, the mythical or the divine? What form does metalepsis take in less obviously 'narrative' genres, such as lyric poetry? And how should it be understood in visual media? Reflecting on these questions sheds new light on important dynamics in ancient texts, and advances literary theory by probing how explorations of ancient metalepsis might change, refine, or extend our understanding of the concept itself.

Driven by Eros

Author : Juan Filipe Stacul
Publisher : Clock-Book Press
ISBN 13 : 8592525098
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Driven by Eros written by Juan Filipe Stacul and published by Clock-Book Press. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a great opportunity to learn more about Brazilian literature and its connections with American contemporary culture. In his work, Juan Stacul, former Visiting Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and researcher of the Capes Foundation (Brazil), proposes a comparative analysis between the novel Whatever Happened to Dulce Veiga?, written by the Brazilian writer Caio Fernando Abreu, and the screenplay of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire. In his analysis, Stacul shows how these authors associate gender roles with the expression of desire, as well as the intimate connection between gender construction and the ideas of movement, transition and indefiniteness.

Lusosex

Author : Susan Canty Quinlan
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9781452905617
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book Lusosex written by Susan Canty Quinlan and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of the most compelling theoretical debates in the humanities today center on representations of sexuality. This volume is the first to focus on the topic -- in particular, the connections between nationhood, sex, and gender -- in the Lusophone, or Portuguese-speaking, world. Written by prominent scholars in Brazilian, Portuguese, and Lusophone African literary and cultural studies, the essays range across multiple discourses and cultural expressions, historical periods and theoretical approaches to offer a uniquely comprehensive perspective on the issues of sex and sexuality in the literature and culture of the Portuguese-speaking world that extends from Portugal to Brazil to Angola, Cape Verde, and Mozambique. Through the critical lenses of gay and lesbian studies, queer theory, postcolonial studies, feminist theory, and postmodern theory, the authors consider the work of such influential literary figures as Clarice Lispector and Silviano Santiago. An important aspect of the volume is the publication of a newly discovered-and explicitly homoerotic -- poem by Fernando Pessoa, published here for the first time in the original Portuguese and in English translation. Chapters take up questions of queer performativity and activism, female subjectivity and erotic desire, the sexual customs of indigenous versus European Brazilians, and the impact of popular music (as represented by Caetano Veloso and others) on interpretations of gender and sexuality. Challenging static notions of sexualities within the Portuguese-speaking world, these essays expand our understanding of the multiplicity of differences and marginalized subjectivities that fall under the intersections of sexuality,gender, and race.

Performing Disunion

Author : Lawrence T. McDonnell
Publisher : Cambridge Studies on the Ameri
ISBN 13 : 1107184932
Total Pages : 571 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Performing Disunion written by Lawrence T. McDonnell and published by Cambridge Studies on the Ameri. This book was released on 2018-06-21 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new history of the causes of the American Civil War, highlighting the role played by ordinary men in the secession debate and process.

Cannibalizing Queer

Author : João Nemi Neto
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814346111
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book Cannibalizing Queer written by João Nemi Neto and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Puts forward a new, provocative history of queer cinema in Brazil. Through an analysis of contemporary Brazilian cinematic production, Cannibalizing Queer: Brazilian Cinema from 1970 to 2015 discusses which queer representations are erased and which are acknowledged in the complex processes of cultural translation, adaptation, and "devouring" that defines the Brazilian understanding of sexual dissidents and minorities. João Nemi Neto argues for Brazilian cinema studies to acknowledge the importance of 1920s modernism and of antropografia, a conceptual mode of cannibalism, to adopt and extrapolate a perverse form of absorption and raise the stakes on queer theory and postcolonialism, and to demonstrate how they are crucial to the development of a queer tradition in Brazilian cinema. In five chapters and two "trailers," Nemi Neto understands the term "queer" through its political dimensions because the films he analyzes represent characters that conform neither to American coming-out politics nor to Brazilian identity politics. Nonetheless, the films are queer precisely because the queer experiences and affection explored in these films do not necessarily insist on identifying characters as a particular sexuality or gender identity. Therefore, attention to characters within a unique cinematic world raises the stakes on several issues that hinge on cinematic form, narrative, and representation. Nemi Neto interviews and examines the work of João Silvério Trevisan and provides readings of films such as AIDS o furor do sexo explícito (AIDS the Furor of Explicit Sex, 1986), and Dzi Croquetes (Dzi Croquetes, 2009) to theorize a productive overlap between queer and antropofagia. Moreover, the films analyzed here depict queer alternative representations to both homonormativity and heteronormativity as forms of resistance, at the same time as prejudice and heteronormativity remain present in contemporary Brazilian social practices. Graduate students and scholars of cinema and media studies, queer studies, Brazilian modernism, and Latin American studies will value what one early reader called "a point of departure for all future research on Brazilian queer cinema."

Transgressions

Author : Anthony Julius
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226415369
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book Transgressions written by Anthony Julius and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2003-03 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The evidence assembled, Julius concludes his hard-hitting dissection of the landscapes of contemporary art by posing some important questions: what is art's future when its boundary-exceeding, taboo-breaking endeavors become the norm? And is anything of value lost when we submit to art's violation?"--BOOK JACKET.

Handbook of the American Short Story

Author : Erik Redling
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110585324
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of the American Short Story written by Erik Redling and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-01-19 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American short story has always been characterized by exciting aesthetic innovations and an immense range of topics. This handbook offers students and researchers a comprehensive introduction to the multifaceted genre with a special focus on recent developments due to the rise of new media. Part I provides systematic overviews of significant contexts ranging from historical-political backgrounds, short story theories developed by writers, print and digital culture, to current theoretical approaches and canon formation. Part II consists of 35 paired readings of representative short stories by eminent authors, charting major steps in the evolution of the American short story from its beginnings as an art form in the early nineteenth century up to the digital age. The handbook examines historically, methodologically, and theoretically the coming together of the enduring narrative practice of compression and concision in American literature. It offers fresh and original readings relevant to studying the American short story and shows how the genre performs American culture.

Performing Brazil

Author : Severino J. Albuquerque
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299300641
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Performing Brazil written by Severino J. Albuquerque and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2015 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays on Brazilian performance culture comprise the first English-language book to study the varied manifestations of performance in and beyond Brazil, from carnival and capoeira to gender acts, curatorial practice, and political protest.

Viral Dramaturgies

Author : Alyson Campbell
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331970317X
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Viral Dramaturgies written by Alyson Campbell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the impact of HIV and AIDS on performance in the twenty-first century from an international perspective. It marks a necessary reaffirmation of the productive power of performance to respond to a public and political health crisis and act as a mode of resistance to cultural amnesia, discrimination and stigmatisation. It sets out a number of challenges and contexts for HIV and AIDS performance in the twenty-first century, including: the financial interests of the pharmaceutical industry; the unequal access to treatment and prevention technologies in the Global North and Global South; the problematic division between dominant (white, gay, urban, cis-male) and marginalised narratives of HIV; the tension between a damaging cultural amnesia and a potentially equally damaging partner ‘AIDS nostalgia’; the criminalisation of HIV non-disclosure; and, sustaining and sustained by all of these, the ongoing stigmatisation of people living with HIV. This collection presents work from a vast range of contexts, grouped around four main areas: women’s voices and experiences; generations, memories and temporalities; inter/national narratives; and artistic and personal reflections and interventions.

3 Contemporary Brazilian Plays

Author : Elzbieta Szoka
Publisher : Host Publications, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780924047299
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (472 download)

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Download or read book 3 Contemporary Brazilian Plays written by Elzbieta Szoka and published by Host Publications, Inc.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drama. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated from the Portuguese by various. The 2nd Edition of THREE CONTEMPORARY BRAZILIAN PLAYS reintroduces three of Brazil's most dynamic and gifted playwrights to the English-speaking audience. Plinio Marcos' Two Lost in the Filthy Night shows language as the only possession of two paupers living in claustrophobic conditions. The rapid and vigorous dialogue lashes out, enclosing the reader in a brutal game. Leilah Assumpcao, in Moist Lips, Quiet Passion, dramatizes the sexual life of a couple trying to achieve their Big Orgasm. They remember their frustrating games by the dates of the military coups. Existence is possible only through games. In Walking Papers by Consuleo de Castro, a man and a woman interact in fragmented situations bordering on insanity. There is no reference to socio-political events, but the obsessive language and the exacerbating rituals of the claustrophobic relationship projects the shadow of the repressive system.

Global Healing

Author : Karen Laura Thornber
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004420185
Total Pages : 709 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Global Healing written by Karen Laura Thornber and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page 709 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read an interview with Karen Thornber. In Global Healing: Literature, Advocacy, Care, Karen Laura Thornber analyzes how narratives from diverse communities globally engage with a broad variety of diseases and other serious health conditions and advocate for empathic, compassionate, and respectful care that facilitates healing and enables wellbeing. The three parts of this book discuss writings from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Oceania that implore societies to shatter the devastating social stigmas which prevent billions from accessing effective care; to increase the availability of quality person-focused healthcare; and to prioritize partnerships that facilitate healing and enable wellbeing for both patients and loved ones. Thornber’s Global Healing remaps the contours of comparative literature, world literature, the medical humanities, and the health humanities. Watch a video interview with Thornber by the Mahindra Humanities Center, part of their conversations on Covid-19. Read an interview with Thornber on Brill's Humanities Matter blog.

Bayou Folk and a Night in Acadie

Author : Kate Chopin
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780140436815
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book Bayou Folk and a Night in Acadie written by Kate Chopin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1999-03-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In one volume, the two short-story collections that established Kate Chopin as one of America's best-loved realist writers. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Liminality, Transgression and Space Across the World

Author : Basak Tanulku
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040001289
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Liminality, Transgression and Space Across the World written by Basak Tanulku and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses various forms of liminality and transgression in different geographies and demonstrates how and why various physical and symbolic boundaries create liminality and transgression. Its focus is on comprehending the ways in which these borders and boundaries generate liminality and transgression rather than viewing them solely as issues. It provides case studies from the past and present, allowing readers to connect subjects, periods, and geographies. It consists of theoretical and empirical chapters that demonstrate how borders and liminality are interconnected. The book also benefits from the power of several visual essays by artists to complete the theoretical and empirical chapters which demonstrate different forms of liminality without need of much words. The book will be of interest to researchers and students working in the fields of urban and rural studies, urban sociology, cities and communities, urban and regional planning, urban anthropology, political science, migration studies, human geography, cultural geography, urban anthropology, and visual arts.

The Brazil Reader

Author : James N. Green
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822371790
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book The Brazil Reader written by James N. Green and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-06 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the first encounters between the Portuguese and indigenous peoples in 1500 to the current political turmoil, the history of Brazil is much more complex and dynamic than the usual representations of it as the home of Carnival, soccer, the Amazon, and samba would suggest. This extensively revised and expanded second edition of the best-selling Brazil Reader dives deep into the past and present of a country marked by its geographical vastness and cultural, ethnic, and environmental diversity. Containing over one hundred selections—many of which appear in English for the first time and which range from sermons by Jesuit missionaries and poetry to political speeches and biographical portraits of famous public figures, intellectuals, and artists—this collection presents the lived experience of Brazilians from all social and economic classes, racial backgrounds, genders, and political perspectives over the past half millennium. Whether outlining the legacy of slavery, the roles of women in Brazilian public life, or the importance of political and social movements, The Brazil Reader provides an unparalleled look at Brazil’s history, culture, and politics.