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Press, Power, and Culture in Imperial Brazil
Press, Power, and Culture in Imperial Brazil introduces recent Brazilian scholarship to English-language readers, providing fresh perspectives on newspaper and periodical culture in the Brazilian empire from 1822 to 1889. Through a multifaceted exploration of the periodical press, contributors to this volume offer new insights into the workings of Brazilian power, culture, and public life. Collectively arguing that newspapers are contested projects rather than stable recordings of daily life, individual chapters demonstrate how the periodical press played a prominent role in creating and contesting hierarchies of race, gender, class, and culture. Contributors challenge traditional views of newspapers and magazines as mechanisms of state- and nation-building. Rather, the scholars in this volume view them as integral to current debates over the nature of Brazil. Including perspectives from Brazil's leading scholars of the periodical press, this volume will be the starting point for future scholarship on print culture for years to come.
Voices of the Race
Introduces English-language readers to a rich body of Black writing that is virtually unknown in the United States.
The Cambridge Companion to Latin American Independence
Innovatively revisits Latin American independence and its significance for the Age of Atlantic Revolutions.
Branding Brazil
Branding Brazil examines a panorama of contemporary cultural productions including film, television, photography, and alternative media to explore the transformation of citizenship in Brazil from 2003 to 2014. A utopian impulse drove the reproduction of Brazilian cultural identity for local and global consumption; cultural production sought social and economic profits, especially greater inclusion of previously marginalized people and places. Marsh asserts that three communicative strategies from branding–promising progress, cultivating buy-in, and resolving contradictions–are the most salient and recurrent practices of nation branding during this historic period. More recent political crises can be understood partly in terms of backlash against marked social and political changes introduced during the branding period. Branding Brazil takes a multi-faceted approach, weaving media studies with politics and cinema studies to reveal that more than a marketing term or project emanating from the state, branding was a cultural phenomenon.
Urban Walking –The Flâneur as an Icon of Metropolitan Culture in Literature and Film
The volume assembles fresh treatments on the flâneur in literature, film and culture from a variety of angles. Its individual contributions cover established as well as previously unnoticed textual and filmic source materials in a historical perspective ranging from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century. The range of topics covered demonstrates the ongoing productivity of flânerie as a viable paradigm for the artistic approach to urban culture and the continuing suitability of flânerie as an analytic category for the scholarly examination of urban representation in the arts. This productiveness also extends to the questioning, re-evaluation, and enhancement of flânerie’s theoretical foundations as they were laid down by Walter Benjamin and others. The work will be particularly relevant for students and scholars of literary studies, film studies and gender studies, as well as for theoretical approaches to flânerie as an important aspect of urban culture.
Current Trends in Slavery Studies in Brazil
African slaves were brought into Brazil as early as 1530, with abolition in 1888. During those three centuries, Brazil received 4,000,000 Africans, over four times as many as any other American destination. Comparatively speaking, Brazil received 40% of the total number of Africans brought to the Americas, while the US received approximately 10%. Due to this huge influx of Africans, today Brazil’s African-descended population is larger than the population of most African countries. Therefore, it is no surprise that Slavery Studies are one of the most consolidated fields in Brazilian historiography. In the last decades, a number of discussions have flourished on issues such as slave agency,...
A SerenÃssima República de Machado de Assis
O autor traz em sua obra uma "equilibrada análise da relevância da literatura para o aprofundamento de questões que escapam ao âmbito oficial da aplicação do Direito. Despertar as consciências jurÃdicas para os compromissos éticos do Direito, entibiados pela rotineira prática jurÃdica, que prolonga as contradições do momento, é uma das virtudes das obras em que Leandro se detém. A exposição dessa função admonitória de tantos escritos de Machado, afinal, é a perspectiva que anima este livro" (palavras do Prefaciador da obra Paulo Gustavo Gonet Branco).
Machado de Assis e os direitos humanos
O II Encontro Recepção Contemporánea de Machado de Assis, realizado nos dias 10 e 11 de novembro de 2022 na Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, teve como tÃtulo: "Machado de Assis e os direitos humanos", e os dez textos reunidos neste volume correspondem à s participações dos pesquisadores nas discussões de alguns tópicos fundamentais para os direitos humanos no Brasil: o acesso à leitura, a igualdade racial e de gênero e o combate à desigualdade social, levando em consideração a obra machadiana. O contexto dos direitos humanos revela-se aberto a diversas possibilidades de releituras do texto literário: temas associados ao trabalho, à exploração capitalista, à s condiÃ...
Days of National Festivity in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1823–1889
Official and popular celebrations marked the Brazilian empire's days of national festivity, and these civic rituals were the occasion for often intense debate about the imperial regime. Hendrik Kraay explores the patterns of commemoration in the capital of Rio de Janeiro, the meanings of the principal institutions of the constitutional monarchy established in 1822–24 (which were celebrated on days of national festivity), and the challenges to the imperial regime that took place during the festivities. While officialdom and the narrow elite sought to control civic rituals, the urban lower classes took an active part in them, although their popular festivities were not always welcomed by the elite. Days of National Festivity is the first book to provide a systematic analysis of civic ritual in a Latin American country over a long period of time—and in doing so, it offers new perspectives on the Brazilian empire, elite and popular politics, and urban culture.
