Originally published as "O Ateneu "in 1888," The Athenaeum "is a classic of Brazilian literature, here translated into English in its entirety for the first time. The first-person narrator, Sergio, looks back to his time at the eponymous boarding school, with its autocratic principal and terrifying student body. Sergio s account of his humiliating experiences as a student, with its frank discussion of corruption and homoerotic bullying, makes it clear that his school is structured and administered so as to reproduce the class divisions and power structure of the larger Brazilian society....
Originally published as "O Ateneu "in 1888," The Athenaeum "is a classic of Brazilian literature, here translated into English in its entirety for ...
In this highly original and critically informed book, Renata R. Mautner Wasserman looks at how, during the first decades following political independence, writers in the United States and Brazil assimilated and subverted European images of an "exotic" New World to create new literatures that asserted cultural independence and defined national...
In this highly original and critically informed book, Renata R. Mautner Wasserman looks at how, during the first decades following political independe...
