Imagining Brazil / edited by Jessé Souza and Valter Sinder.

Other author Souza, Jessé.
Other author Sinder, Valter.
Format Book
Publication InfoLanham, Md. : Lexington Books, ©2005.
Descriptionvi, 311 pages ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects

SeriesGlobal encounters
Global encounters. ^A419290
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2004028742
ISBN0739110136 (cloth : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks F2510 .I497 2005 ✔ Available Place Hold