Misplaced Ideas Essays on Brazilian Culture

by Schwarz, Roberto; Gledson, John

• ISBN13: 9780860915768
• ISBN10: 086091576X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-09-17
• Publisher: Verso
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Summary

How can Latin Americans understand their past? Do ideologies which have been imported from Europe necessarily distort their view, or is that to underrate the power and objectivity of the ideas themselves? These questions are at the heart of this selection of essays, spanning twenty years of critical work on history, culture and identity, by one of the foremost Latin American intellectuals of our time. Roberto Schwarz's writings have had a profound effect throughout Latin America. This is the first volume of those writings to appear in English.

Author Biography

Roberto Schwarz is Professor of Literary Theory at the University of Campinas, Sao Paulo

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. ix
Brazilian Culture: Nationalism by Elimination	p. 1
Misplaced Ideas: Literature and Society in Late-Nineteenth-Century Brazil	p. 19
Beware of Alien Ideologies	p. 33
The Importing of the Novel to Brazil and its Contradictions in the Work of Alencar	p. 41
Machado de Assis: A Biographical Sketch	p. 78
Complex, Modern, National and Negative	p. 84
The Poor Old Woman and Her Portraitist	p. 94
'Who can tell me that this character is not Brazil?'	p. 100
The Cart, the Tram and the Modernist Poet	p. 108
Culture and Politics in Brazil, 1964-1969	p. 126
Cinema and The Guns	p. 160
On A Man Marked Out To Die	p. 166
Is There a Third World Aesthetic?	p. 173
Anatol Rosenfeld, a Foreign Intellectual	p. 175
A Historic Landmark	p. 187
Chico Buarque's New Novel	p. 197
Index	p. 202
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