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9780739110133

Imagining Brazil

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  • ISBN13:

    9780739110133

  • ISBN10:

    0739110136

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2005-06-14
  • Publisher: Lexington Books
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Summary

Imagining Brazil provides a comprehensive and multifaceted picture of Brazil in the age of globalization. Privileging diversity in relation to the authors as well as the manner in which Brazil is perceived, Jessz Souza and Valter Sinder have assembled historians, political scientists, sociologists, literary critics, and scholars of culture in an attempt to understand a complex society in all its richness and diversity.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1(8)
Part I Society and Politics
1 The Singularity of the Peripheral Social Inequality
9(28)
Jessé Souza
2 Culture, Democracy, and the Formation of the Public Space in Brazil
37(24)
Leonardo Avritzer
3 Between Under-Integration and Over-Integration: Not Taking Citizenship Seriously
61(30)
Marcelo Neves
4 The Paraguayan War: A Constitutional, Political, and Economic Turning Point for Brazil
91(10)
Thomas E. Skidmore
5 Max Weber and the Interpretation of Brazil
101(18)
Luiz Werneck Vianna
6 Racial Democracy
119(22)
Antonio Sérgio Alfredo Guimarães
7 From Bahia to Brazil: The UNESCO Race Relations Project
141(34)
Marcos Chor Maio
Part II Literature and Culture
8 Brazilian Cultural Critique: Possible Scenarios of a Pending Debate
175(18)
Valter Sinder and Paulo Jorge Ribeiro
9 The Republic and the Suburb: Literary Imagination and Modernity in Brazil
193(18)
Heloisa Maria Murgel Starling
10 Identity Is the Other
211(24)
João Trajano Sento-Sé
11 The Relevance of Machado de Assis
235(16)
Dain Borges
12 From Bossa Nova to Tropicália: Restraint and Excess in Popular Music
251(16)
Santuza Canzbraia Naves
13 Elective Infidelities: Intellectuals and Politics
267(24)
Helena Bomeny
14 An Amphibious Literature
291(8)
Silviano Santiago
Index 299(10)
About the Contributors 309

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