Literature and Ethics in Contemporary Brazil

ISBN-13: 9780367667924 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 274 str.

Vinicius Mariano de Carvalho; Nicola Gavioli

Opis

Illuminating the relevance of literature as a catalyst for rethinking Brazil, this book offers a resistance to the official discourses that have worked to conceal social tensions, injustices, and secular inequities in Brazilian society.

Spis treści

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Contributors

Foreword

DOMINIC RAINSFORD

Introduction

VINICIUS MARIANO DE CARVALHO and NICOLA GAVIOLI

1. 2013 Frankfurt Book Fair’s Speech

LUIZ RUFFATO

2. Brazilian Contemporary Fiction and the Representation of Poverty

REGINA DALCASTAGNÈ

3. Memorials of Words: The Victim in Brazilian Literature

ROBERTO VECCHI

4. Deciphered Brazil and Enigma Brazil: Notes on Social Exclusion and Violence in Contemporary Brazilian Literature

EDIMILSON DE ALMEIDA PEREIRA

5. Journeys of Resistance in Afro-Brazilian Literature: the Case of Conceição Evaristo

SARA BRANDELLERO

6. Growing Up to Human Rights: The Bildungsroman and the Discourse of Human Rights in Um defeito de cor

LEILA LEHNEN

7. Narrating other Perspectives, Re-drawing History. The Protagonization of Afro-Brazilians in the Work of Graphic Novelist Marcelo d’Salete

JASMIN WROBEL

8. Neither Here nor There: Unsettling Encounters in Paulo Scott’s Habitante Irreal

CLAIRE WILLIAMS

9. Can’t You Hear my Call? The Guarani Kaiowá Letter and the Right to Land and Literature in Brazil

MARÍLIA LIBRANDI-ROCHA

10. In Search of a New Invisibilty

DENILSON LOPES

11. Revisions of Masculinity under Dictatorship: Gabeira, Caio and Noll

IDELBER AVELAR

12. Testimonial Performance: Fictions of the Real in Contemporary Art

MÁRCIO SELIGMANN-SILVA

13. Lyrical Guides to the Peripheries of Rio de Janeiro: Two Historical Moments

FELIPE BOTELHO CORRÊA

14. Nicolas Behr’s Futuristic braxília and the Critical Reinvention of Brasiliensidade (brasília-em-cidade)

STEVEN F. BUTTERMAN

15. The Night Explodes in the Cities: Three Hypotheses about Vinagre: uma antologia de poetas neobarracos

GUSTAVO SILVEIRA RIBEIRO

O autorze

Vinicius Mariano de Carvalho is Lecturer at King’s Brazil Institute at King's College London, UK.

Nicola Gavioli is Assistant Professor of Portuguese at Florida International University, USA.