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Imagining Brazil / edited by Jessé Souza and Valter Sinder.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Global encounters
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Brazil--Civilization--20th century.
- Brazil.
- Civilization.
- Brazil--Politics and government--20th century.
- Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 311 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, [2005]
- Summary:
- Imagining Brazil provides a comprehensive and multifaceted picture of Brazil in the age of globalization. Privileging diversity in relation to the authors as well as the manner in which Brazil is perceived, Jessz Souza and Valter Sinder have assembled historians, political scientists, sociologists, literary critics, and scholars of culture in an attempt to understand a complex society in all its richness and diversity.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Part 1. Society and politics. The singularity of the peripheral social inequality / Jessé Souza
- Culture, democracy and the formation of the public space in Brazil / Leonardo Avritzer
- Between under-integration and over-integration : not taking citizenship seriously / Marcelo Neves
- The Paraguayan War : a constitutional, political, and economic turning point for Brazil / Thomas E. Skidmore
- Max Weber and the interpretation of Brazil / Luiz Werneck Vianna
- Racial democracy / Antonio Sérgio Alfredo Guimarães
- From Bahia to Brazil : the UNESCO Race Relations Project / Marcos Chor Maio. Part 2. Literature and culture. Brazilian cultural critique : possible scenarios of a pending debate / Valter Sinder and Paulo Jorge Ribeiro
- The republic and the suburb : literary imagination and modernity in Brazil / Heloisa Maria Murgel Starling
- Identity is the other / João Trajano Sento-Sé
- The relevance of Machado de Assis / Dain Borges
- From bossa nova to tropicália : restraint and excess in popular music / Santuza Cambraia Naves
- Elective infidelities : intellectuals and politics / Helena Bomeny
- An amphibious literature / Silviano Santiago.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0739110136
- OCLC:
- 57286184
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