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Graciliano Ramos and the making of modern Brazil : memory, politics and identities / edited by Sara Brandellero and Lucia Villares.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Iberian and Latin American studies.
- Iberian and Latin American Studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ramos, Graciliano, 1892-1953--Criticism and interpretation.
- Ramos, Graciliano.
- Ramos, Graciliano,-1892-1953-Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (264 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Columbus Walk, [Wales] : University of Wales Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- Graciliano Ramos and the Making of Modern Brazil provides new readings and fresh perspectives on the Brazilian writer Graciliano Ramos (1892-1953), whose socially and politically engaged work remains a key reference for our understanding of the making of modern Brazil and continues to reverberate in the country's contemporary context.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Series Editors' Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Chapter One: Reflections on Graciliano Ramos
- Chapter Two: Graciliano Ramos and Politics in Alagoas
- Chapter Three: Debris of Worthless Shipwrecks: Caetés, the Anachronisms and Simulacra of the Modern Nation
- Chapter Four: The Subjectivity of the Werewolf (São Bernardo)
- Chapter Five: The Dead Woman in the Bedroom: São Bernardo
- Chapter Six: A Thick Heart: Migration of Souls and Meanings
- Chapter Seven: The Writing of the Spectral Land in Vidas secas
- Chapter Eight: The Anguish of Revolution
- Chapter Nine: Unearthing Value: Money and Topographies of the Self in Graciliano Ramos
- Chapter Ten: Graciliano Ramos is Not the Author of Madame Bovary
- Chapter Eleven: The Freedom of Memory:Autobiography and Fiction in Graciliano Ramos and Silviano Santiago
- Chapter Twelve: On Influences: Graciliano Ramos and Milton Hatoum
- Index
- Back Cover.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 19, 2017).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- OCLC:
- 988175172
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