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Arab Brazil : fictions of ternary orientalism
\"Until recently, Arab-Brazilian relations have been largely invisible to area studies and Comparative Literature scholarship. Yet Arabs have left a permanent imprint on Brazil: from the Moorish legacy of Muslim Iberia, transmitted by Portuguese settlers; to waves of Arab immigrants since the late nineteenth century; to the prominence today of Brazilians of Arab descent in politics, the economy, literature, and culture. The first book of its kind, Arab Brazil: Fictions of Tertiary Orientalism argues that representations of Arab and Muslim immigrants in Brazilian literature and popular culture since the early twentieth century reveal anxieties and contradictions in the country's ideologies of national identity. Author Waïl S. Hassan analyzes those representations in a century of Brazilian novels, short stories, and telenovelas, to show how the Arab East works paradoxically as a site of otherness (different language, culture, and religion) and solidarity (cultural, historical, demographic, and geopolitical ties). What explains this contradiction, argues Hassan, is a Brazilian variety of Orientalism, distinct from the British, French, and U.S. varieties analyzed by Edward Said, that problematizes the idealized image of Brazil as a country built on mistura (ethnic and racial mixing) and cultural anthropophagy, or the digestion and incorporation of diverse cultural influences\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Trauma, memory and identity in five Jewish novels from the Southern Cone
The Jewish presence in Latin America is a recent chapter in Jewish history that has produced a remarkable body of literature that gives voice to the fascinating experience of Jews in Latin American lands. This book explores the complexity of Jewish identity in Latin America through the fictional Jewish characters of five novels written by Jewish authors from the Southern Cone: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay. It examines how trauma and memory have profound effects on shaping the identity of these Jewish characters who have to forge a new identity as they begin to interact with the Latin American societies of their newly adopted homes. The first three novels present stories narrated by the first generation of immigrants who arrived in Latin American lands escaping pogroms in Russia, and the increasing persecution and anti-Semitism in Europe, in the decades prior to World War II. The fourth novel analyses the identity conflicts experienced by a second generation Latin American born Jew who questions his Jewish, questions of assimilation and integration in to his society. The last novel closes this study with the existential crisis experienced by a perfectly assimilated non-religious Jew, who enquires about his Jewishness and compares himself to other Jews around him.
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Genealogical Fictions
Explores the enduring link between national space and genealogy in the modern novel. Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRL Taking its cue from recent theories of literary geography and fiction, Genealogical Fictions argues that narratives of familial decline shape the history of the modern novel, as well as the novel's relationship to history. Stories of families in crisis, Jobst Welge argues, reflect the experience of historical and social change in regions or nations perceived as \"peripheral.\" Though geographically and temporally diverse, the novels Welge considers all demonstrate a relation among family and national history, genealogical succession, and generational experience, along with social change and modernization. Welge's wide-ranging comparative study focuses on the novels of the late nineteenth century, but it also includes detailed analyses of the pre-Victorian origin of the genealogical-historical novel and the evolution of similar themes in twentieth-century literature. Moving through time, he uncovers often-unsuspected novelistic continuities and international transformations and echoes, from Maria Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent, published in 1800, to G. Tomasi di Lampedusa's 1958 book Il Gattopardo. By revealing the \"family resemblance\" of novels from Great Britain, Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Brazil, this volume shows how genealogical narratives take on special significance in contexts of cultural periphery. Welge links private and public histories, while simultaneously integrating detailed accounts of various literary fields across the globe. In combining theories of the novel, recent discussions of cultural geography, and new approaches to genealogical narratives, Genealogical Fictions addresses a significant part of European and Latin American literary history in which texts from different national cultures illuminate each other in unsuspected ways and reveal the repetition, as well as the variation, among them. This book should be of interest to students and scholars of comparative literature, world literature, and the history and theory of the modern novel.
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Fictional Environments
Fictional Environments: Mimesis, Deforestation, and
Development in Latin America investigates how fictional works
have become sites for the production of knowledge, imagination, and
intervention in Latin American environments. It investigates the
dynamic relationship between fictional images and real places, as
the lasting representations of forests, rural areas, and deserts in
novels clash with collective perceptions of changes like
deforestation and urbanization.
From the backlands of Brazil to a developing Rio de Janeiro, and
from the rainforests of Venezuela and Peru to the Mexican
countryside, rapid deforestation took place in Latin America in the
second half of the twentieth century. How do fictional works and
other cultural objects dramatize, resist, and intervene in these
ecological transformations? Through analyses of work by João
Guimarães Rosa, Alejo Carpentier, Juan Rulfo, Clarice Lispector,
and Mario Vargas Llosa, Victoria Saramago shows how novels have
inspired conservationist initiatives and offered counterpoints to
developmentalist policies, and how environmental concerns have
informed the agendas of novelists as essayists, politicians, and
public intellectuals. This book seeks to understand the role of
literary representation, or mimesis, in shaping, sustaining, and
negotiating environmental imaginaries during the deep, ongoing
transformations that have taken place from the 1950s to the
present.
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Utopias of Otherness
In Utopias of Otherness, Fernando Arenas considers Portugal and Brazil, both subject to the economic, political, and cultural forces of postmodern globalization. Arenas analyzes responses to these trends in contemporary writers including José Saramago, Caio Fernando Abreu, Maria Isabel Barreno, Vergílio Ferreira, Clarice Lispector, and Maria Gabriela Llansol, ultimately revealing how these writers have redefined the concept of nationhood.
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EccentriCities
An innovative, interdisciplinary, incisive scholarly study remapping and redefining domains and dynamics of modernism, EccentriCities: Writing in the margins of modernism critically considers how geo-historically distant and disparate urban sites, concentrating Russian and Luso-Brazilian cultural dialogue and definition, give rise to peculiarly parallel anachronistic and alternative fictional forms. While comparatively reframing these literary traditions through an extensive survey of Russian and Brazilian literature, cartography, urban design and development, foregrounding innovative close readings of works by Gogol, Dostoevsky, Bely, Almeida, Machado de Assis, Lima Barreto, Mário de Andrade, the book also redefines new constellations (eccentric, concentric, ex-centric) for understanding geo-cultural and generic dimensions of modernist and post-modern literature and theory.
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The Cinema Section of Foto Cine Clube Bandeirante: Ideals and Reality of Amateur Film Production in São Paulo, Brazil
This essay undertakes a historical investigation of the activities of Foto Cine Clube Bandeirante's cinema section during the 1940s and 1950s and the discourses surrounding amateur film practice in Brazil at the time. Through the pages of Boletim Foto-Cine, the club's official publication, we can identify how commercial narrative cinema and foreign standards were initially considered the models for amateur production. In addition, the beginning of the amateur-film contests in 1950 created a rich context for amateur practice, inspiring the production of different film genres and close attention to Brazilian culture. The connection with the international cinema-club circuit will also be highlighted, as well as the particularities concerning Brazilian amateur cine culture.
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Fiction as History: The Case of Joao Ubaldo Ribeiro
Hayden White suggests in The Content of the Form that historiography depends upon the existence of a social center that allows the historian to locate events in relation to one another and “to charge them with ethical or moral significance” (White 1987, 11). This center makes it possible for the historical narrative—as opposed to the annals and the chronicle—to achieve closure. White specifies, however, that “in order to qualify as historical, an event must be susceptible to at least two narrations of its occurrence” (White 1987, 20). According to this perspective, the historical narrative is informed by the historian's need to assert his or her authority over other competing accounts of the past. In questioning the privileged position traditionally held by historians and suggesting that historians' discourse is only one of many paths leading to a truthful (re)presentation of the past, White's version of historiography holds particular appeal for those of us who, despite having been trained in fields other than history, consider ourselves to be authoritative interpreters of Brazil.
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