Imagining Brazil

by Souza, Jessé; Sinder, Valter; Avritzer, Leonardo; Bomeny, Helena; Borges, Dain; Alfredo Guimarães, Antonio Sérgio; Maio, Marcos Chor; Naves, Santuza Cambraia; Neves, Marcelo; Ribeiro, Paulo Jorge; Santiago, Silviano; Sento-Sé, João Trajano; Skidmore, Thom

• ISBN13: 9780739110140
• ISBN10: 0739110144
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-02-16
• Publisher: Lexington Books

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	p. 1
Society and Politics
The Singularity of the Peripheral Social Inequality	p. 9
Culture, Democracy, and the Formation of the Public Space in Brazil	p. 37
Between Under-Integration and Over-Integration: Not Taking Citizenship Seriously	p. 61
The Paraguayan War: A Constitutional, Political, and Economic Turning Point for Brazil	p. 91
Max Weber and the Interpretation of Brazil	p. 101
Racial Democracy	p. 119
From Bahia to Brazil: The UNESCO Race Relations Project	p. 141
Literature and Culture
Brazilian Cultural Critique: Possible Scenarios of a Pending Debate	p. 175
The Republic and the Suburb: Literary Imagination and Modernity in Brazil	p. 193
Identity Is the Other	p. 211
The Relevance of Machado de Assis	p. 235
From Bossa Nova to Tropicalia: Restraint and Excess in Popular Music	p. 251
Elective Infidelities: Intellectuals and Politics	p. 267
An Amphibious Literature	p. 291
Index	p. 299
About the Contributors	p. 309
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