Everyday Consumption in Twenty-First-Century Brazilian Fiction / Lígia Bezerra.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bezerra, Ligia, author.

Series:

Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures Series

Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures, 85.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brazilian fiction.

Brazillian fiction--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Brazillian fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Purdue University Press 2022

West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press 2022.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Everyday Consumption in Twenty-First-Century Brazilian Fiction is the first in-depth study to map out the representation of consumption in contemporary Brazilian prose, highlighting how our interactions with commodities connect seemingly disconnected areas of everyday life, such as eating habits, the growth of prosperity theology, and ideas of success and failure. It is also the first text to provide a pluralistic perspective on the representation of consumption in this fiction that moves beyond the concern with aesthetic judgment of culture based on binaries such as good/bad or elevated/degraded that have largely informed criticism on this body of literary work. Current Brazilian fiction provides a variety of perspectives from which to think about our daily interactions with commodities and about how consumption affects us all in subtle ways. Collectively, the narratives analyzed in the book present a wide spectrum of more or less hopeful portrayals of existence in consumer culture, from totalizing dystopia to transformative hope.

Contents:

Cover

EVERYDAY CONSUMPTION

Title

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Theories of Consumption

Historicizing Consumption in Latin America

Consumption and Everyday Life

Chapter One A Consumer's Dystopia

Bonassi's Luxúria: Brazil, Country of the Future! Are We There Yet?

Everyday Violence

Everyday Numbness

The Factory and the Country: The Right Turn?

Sant' Anna's O Brasil é bom: Federal Republic of Consumption

The Growth of Neoconservatism

Brazil, a Country of "Nice" People

Brazil Isn't Too Bad. Or Is It?

Policing Consumption

Chapter Two The Consuming Self

Lísias's O livro dos mandarins: What Is in a Name?

Of Great Leaders and Neoliberal Thought

Failure: The Narrative Behind the Narrative

Bernardo Carvalho's Reprodução: Information in the Era of Reproduction

Talking to Oneself

The (Dis)Information Era

A Time of Crisis

Language and Power

Of Utopic Futures

Chapter Three Consumer Culture's "Collateral Damage"

Invisible Lives

Everyday Death

Of Meat Consumption

Conclusion

Chapter Four A Consumer's Dreams and Nightmares

Galera's Mãos de cavalo: A Mass-Mediated Sensibility

Laub's A maçã envenenada: Between Kurt Cobain and Imaculée Ilibagiza

Chapter Five Working-Class Consumption

Consuming Together

Aesthetic Interruptions of the Mundane

Low and High

Tactical Consumption

Notes

Works Cited

Index

About the Book

About the Author.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical reference and indexes.

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ISBN:

9781612497600

1612497608

OCLC:

1332778898