KulturConfusão : on German-Brazilian interculturalities / editors, Anke Finger, Gabi Kathöfer, Christopher Larkosh.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Finger, Anke K., editor.

Kathöfer, Gabi, editor.

Larkosh, Christopher, editor.

Series:

Interdisciplinary German cultural studies ; 19.

Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies, 1861-8030 ; Volume 19

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intercultural communication--Germany.

Intercultural communication.

Intercultural communication--Brazil.

Germany--Relations--Brazil.

Germany.

Brazil--Relations--Germany.

Brazil.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 331 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin : De Gruyter, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The analyses of German and Brazilian cultures found in this book offer a much-needed rethinking of the intercultural paradigm for the humanities and literary and cultural studies. This collection examines cultural interactions between Germany and Brazil from the Early Modern period to the present day, especially how authors, artists and other intellectuals address the development of society, intervene in the construction and transformation of cultural identities, and observe the introduction of differing cultural elements in and beyond the limits of the nation. 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 the issues they address are relevant not only for each of the scholarly disciplines involved, but also in discussions of current cultural practices in connection to all forms of media. The collection thus serves as a model for further intercultural research, since it calls into question the very terms through which we understand the relationships between cultures, as well as their products, practices, and perspectives.

Contents:

Front matter

Table of Contents

KulturConfusão: On German-Brazilian Hybridities and Intercultural Hermeneutics / Finger, Anke / Kathöfer, Gabi / Larkosh, Christopher

Indigenous Projections

Germans and Indians in Brazil: The Transatlantic Construction of Ethnic Identity in the Discourse of Indian Protection / Ritz-Deutch, Ute

"Paradise with Black Angels": Brazil in Eighteenth-Century Germany / Clara, Fernando

Devouring Culture: Cannibalism, National Identity, and Nineteenth-Century German Emigration to Brazil / Kathöfer, Gabi

Cultural Entanglements and Ethnographic Refractions: Theodor Koch-Grünberg in Brazil / Beebee, Thomas O.

Everyday Cultures and Media

German-Brazilian Cultural Exchange in the Times of the Dictatorship: The Cultural Magazine Intercâmbio / Musser, Ricarda

From Documentation to Dialogue: On Bringing Brazilian Popular Music and Jazz to West Germany / Hurley, Andrew W.

Conceptual Metaphors: A Culture-Specific Construction of Meaning Using the "Life Is War" Metaphor in Brazilian and German Rap Lyrics / Schröder, Ulrike

Transnational Film History? Um Cinema Teuto-Brasileiro / Fuhrmann, Wolfgang

Literary Fusions and Interstitial Spaces

Tropical Subjectivity and the European Tradition of Bildung: Macunaíma, a Hero Without a Character, by Mário de Andrade / Nitschack, Horst

"Everywhere Paradise Is Lost": The Brazilian National Myth in the Works of Refugees of Nazism / Eckl, Marlen

Submarine: Germany Resurfacing in the Contemporary Brazilian Novel / Larkosh, Christopher

"Exiled from the World": German Expressionism, Brazilian Modernism, and the Interstitial Primitivism of Lasar Segall / Wolfe, Edith

Between São Paulo and Stuttgart: Multilingualism, Translation, and Interculturality in Haroldo de Campos's and Vilém Flusser's Work / Guldin, Rainer

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110408225

3110408228

9783110408447

3110408449

OCLC:

918623323