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// Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies4/5 Brazil 2001.A Revisionary History of Brazillian Literature and Culture.Guest editor: João Cezar de Castro Rocha, In one of his most intriguing poems, Carlos Drummond de Andrade provides inspiration for this current volume of Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies - Brazil 2001: A Revisionary History of Brazilian Literature and Culture. The poem, called "Hino Nacional," is a paradoxical reconstruction of variegated efforts aimed at the building of the nation. In the final lines of the poem, however, it is "Brazil" - as an impossible Kantian thing-in-itself - that emerges and refuses all attempts to grasp its essence: Brazil does not want us! It is sick and tired of us! |
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Introduction - "There is no Brazil": A Poet's Writing of Cultural History João Cezar de Castro Rocha |
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Gilberto Freyre: 100 Years |
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31 |
A Sea Full of Waves: Ambiguity and Modernity in Brazilian Culture |
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41 |
The Road to Casa-Grande. Itineraries by Gilberto Freyre |
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51 |
The UNESCO Project: Social Sciences and Race Studies in Brazil in the 1950s |
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65 |
The Mansions and the Shanties: "The Flesh and the Stone" in Nineteenth-Century Brazil |
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73 |
The Origins and Errors of Brazilian Cordiality |
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Literature |
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91 |
Theater of the Impressed: The Brazilian Stage in the Nineteenth Century |
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103 |
Gonçalves Dias |
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113 |
Memoirs of a Militia Sergeant: A Singular Novel |
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121 |
Iracema: The Tupinization of Portuguese |
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135 |
Machado de Assis and The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas |
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149 |
Rebellion in the Backlands: Landscape with Figures |
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157 |
The Patriot: The Exclusion of the Hero Full of Character |
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167 |
Plantation Boy: The Memory of Loss |
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177 |
Monteiro Lobato Today-Semicolon |
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189 |
Contemporary Brazilian Women's Autobiography and the Forgotten Case of Adalgisa Nery |
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197 |
Devil to Pay in the Backlands and João Guimarães Rosa's Quest of Universality |
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207 |
Archives and Memories of Pedro Nava |
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213 |
The Hour of the Star or Clarice Lispector's Trash Hour |
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223 |
The Case of Rubem Fonseca The Search for Reality |
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233 |
João Cabral in Perspective |
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245 |
Two Poetics, Two Moments |
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255 |
Brazilian Fiction Today: A Point of Departure |
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269 |
A Brief Introduction to Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Women's Literature |
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277 |
Down with Tordesilhas! |
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Culture |
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303 |
Politics as History and Literature |
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313 |
Manoel Bomfim: The State and Elites Seen as Parasites of the People-Nation |
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325 |
Dom João VI no Brasil |
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335 |
Citizenship in Rui Barbosa: "A Questão Social e Política no Brasil" |
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343 |
"A Portrait of Brazil" in the Postmodern Context |
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351 |
The USA and Brazil: Capitalism and Pre-Capitalism According to Oliveira Vianna |
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359 |
Raymundo Faoro's Roundabout Voyage in Os Donos do Poder |
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369 |
America, Joy of Man's Desiring: A Comparison of Visão do Paraíso with Wilderness and Paradise in Christian Thought |
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377 |
Florestan Fernandes: Memory and Utopia |
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385 |
Discovering "Brazil's Soul": A Reading of Luís da Câmara Cascudo |
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397 |
The Theater of Politics: The King as Character in the Imperial Brazilian State-A Reading of A Construção da Ordem: A Elite Política Imperial and Teatro de Sombras: A Política Imperial |
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405 |
References, Responsibilities and Reading: A Época Pombalina |
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413 |
The Nation's Borders and the Construction of Plural Identities: Carnivals, Rogues and Heroes or Roberto DaMatta and the In-between Place of Brazilian Culture |
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Cultural Intermediaries |
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423 |
Who Was Pero Vaz de Caminha? |
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435 |
José de Anchieta: Performing the History of Christianity in Brazil |
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445 |
Guidelines for Reading Vieira |
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453 |
The Image of Brazil in Robinson Crusoe |
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461 |
Ferdinand Denis and Brazilian Literature: A Successful Tutelary Relationship |
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467 |
"Watercolors of Brazil": Jean Baptiste Debret's Work |
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481 |
Stefan Zweig's Brazil, Land of the Future: A Topic of Debate |
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489 |
Elizabeth Bishop as Cultural Intermediary |
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499 |
Roger Bastide and Brazil: At the Crossroads Between Viewpoints |
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507 |
The Logic of the Backward and the Boomerang Effect: The Case of Ziembinski |
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515 |
Otto Maria Carpeaux |
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521 |
The Foreigner |
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529 |
Back to the Tristes Tropiques: Notes on Lévi-Strauss and Brazil |
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Literary History and Literary Criticism |
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541 |
Brazilian Literary Historiography: Its Beginnings |
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549 |
Between Two Histories: From Sílvio Romero to José Veríssimo |
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559 |
"The Abstract Brazilian": Antonio Candido's Malandro as National Persona |
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577 |
Roberto Schwarz' Dialectical Criticism |
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585 |
Hybrid Criticism and Historical Form |
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595 |
The Itinerary of a Problem: Luiz Costa Lima and the "Control of the Imaginary" |
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607 |
Comparative Literature in Brazil in the 1990s |
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Audiovisual |
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617 |
The Role of Radio in Everyday Brazilian Society (1923-1960) |
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625 |
The Orphan Brotherland: Rap's Civilizing Effort on the Periphery of São Paulo |
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643 |
Funk and Hip-Hop Transculture: Cultural Conciliation and Racial Identification in the "Divided City" |
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659 |
Politics and the Aesthetics of Myth in Black God, White Devil |
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671 |
Redemption Through the Excess of Sin |
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681 |
Brazil 2001 and Walter Salles: Cinema for the Global Village? |
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697 |
Praying in the Sand: Paula Rego and Visual Representations of the First Mass in Brazil |
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711 |
The Media: The Past and the Years to Come |
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717 |
Abstracts/Resumo |
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739 |
Contributors/Colaboradore |
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755 |
Translators/Tradutores |
Last Updated On: 1/11/07