Kulturconfusão : on German-Brazilian Interculturalities / edited by Anke Finger, Gabi Kathöfer and Christopher Larkosh.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Finger, Anke K., editor.

Kathöfer, Gabi, editor.

Larkosh, Christopher, editor.

Series:

Interdisciplinary German cultural studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intercultural communication.

Relations.

Germany--Relations--Brazil.

Germany.

Brazil--Relations--Germany.

Brazil.

Intercultural communication--Germany.

Intercultural communication--Brazil.

Physical Description:

331 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2015]

Summary:

This collection examines cultural interactions between Germany and Brazil from the Early Modern period to the present day. The contributors represent various academic disciplines, including German Studies, Luso-Afro-Brazilian Studies, Cultural Studies, Linguistics, Art History and the social sciences. Their essays cover a wide range of works and media and offer a much-needed rethinking of the intercultural paradigm for the humanities -- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Kulturconfusão: on German-Brazilian hybridities and intercultural hermeneutics / Anke Finger, Gabi Kathöfer, and Christopher Larkosh

Indigenous projections / Ute Ritz-Deutch

Germans and Indians in Brazil: the transatlantic construction of ethnic identity in the discourse of Indian protection / Fernando Clara

"Paradise with black angels": Brazil in eighteenth-century Germany / Gabi Kathöfer

Devouring culture: cannibalism, national identity, and nineteenth-century German emigration to Brazil / Thomas O. Beebee

Cultural entanglements and ethnographic refractions: Theodor Koch-Grünberg in Brazil

Everyday cultures and media / Ricarda Musser

German-Brazilian cultural exchange in the times of the dictatorship: the cultural magazine Intercâmbio / Andrew W. Hurley

From documentation to dialogue: on bringing Brazilian popular music and jazz to West Germany / Ulrike Schröder

Conceptual metaphors: a culture-specific construction of meaning using the "life is war" metaphor in Brazilian and German rap lyrics / Wolfgang Fuhrmann

Transnational film history?: um cinema teuto-brasileiro

Literary fusions and interstitial spaces / Horst Nitschack

Tropical subjectivity and the European tradition of Bildung:

Macunaíma, a hero without a character, by Mário de Andrade / Marlen Eckl

"Everywhere paradise is lost": the Brazilian national myth in the works of refugees of Nazism / Christopher Larkosh

Submarine: Germany resurfacing in the contemporary Brazilian novel / Edith Wolfe

"Exiled from the world": German Expressionism, Brazilian Modernism and the interstitial primitivism of Lasar Segall / Rainer Guldin

Between São Paulo and Stuttgart: multilingualism, translation, and interculturality in Haroldo de Campos's and Vilém Flusser's work.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783110408096

3110408090

OCLC:

910596180