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Three Sad Races
An innovative interpretation of the development of Brazilian literature from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. Originally published in 1983, Three Sad Races is a study of how Brazilian literature deals with the nation's racial diversity themes and gives vent to the general disquietude concerning this.
Agriculture's Energy
Thomas D. Rogers's history of a modernizing Brazil tracks what happened when a key government program,created in the 1970s by the nation's military regime, aspired to harness energy produced by sugarcane agriculture to power the country's economy. The National Alcohol Program, known as Proalcool, was a deliberate economic strategy designed to incentivize ethanol production and reduce gasoline consumption. As Brazil's capacity grew and as international oil shocks continued, the regime's planners doubled down on Proalcool. Drawing financing from international lenders and curiosity from other oil-dependent countries, for a time it was the world's largest oil-substitution and renewable-energy pr...
Historical Dictionary of Portugal
The third edition of Historical Dictionary of Portugal greatly expands on the second edition through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on important persons, places, events, and institutions, as well as on significant political, economic, social, and cultural aspects.
Sexuality and Being in the Poststructuralist Universe of Clarice Lispector
The protagonists of the novels and stories of Clarice Lispector exemplify and humanise many of the issues central to poststructuralist thought. This work demonstrates that poststructuralism offers insights into all aspects of Lispector's writing.
Cannibal Democracy
Zita Nunes argues that the prevailing narratives of identity formation throughout the Americas share a dependence on metaphors of incorporation and, often, of cannibalism. From the position of the incorporating body, the construction of a national and racial identity through a process of assimilation presupposes a remainder, a residue. Nunes addresses works by writers and artists who explore what is left behind in the formation of national identities and speak to the limits of the contemporary discourse of democracy. Cannibal Democracy tracks its central metaphor’s circulation through the work of writers such as Mrio de Andrade, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Toni Morrison and journalists of the bl...
Obra poética escolhida. Volume VI. O apóstolo e outros poemas
Quando acabei este poema, já era dia. Estava exausto e a soluçar... E a luz do Sol, nessa piedade santa que um sorriso tristíssimo contém, entrava no meu quarto, pra me beijar, como se fosse minha mãe...
O Brasil Segundo Gilberto Freyre
Na quarta capa de Casa Grande & Senzala, obra-prima de Gilberto Freyre publicada pela Global Editora, Darcy Ribeiro diz que este livro é uma "façanha da cultura brasileira". Tal elogio pode parecer exagerado para quem não conhece a importância do autor, mas lendo outros textos sobre a obra, não lhe faltam outros elogios semelhantes. O ex-presidente da República e sociólogo Fernando Henrique Cardoso, que inclusive é responsável pelo texto de apresentação da edição da casa, avalia que este é um texto que seria lido pelo próximo milênio. Mas afinal, por que a obra e todos os seus estudos se tornaram tão importantes para entender o país? Casa Grande & Senzala (1933) é o primei...
From Sea-bathing to Beach-going
In From Sea-Bathing to Beach-Going B. J. Barickman explores how a narrow ocean beachfront neighborhood and the distinctive practice of beach-going invented by its residents in the early twentieth century came to symbolize a city and a nation. Nineteenth-century Cariocas (residents of Rio) ostensibly practiced sea-bathing for its therapeutic benefits, but the bathing platforms near the city center and the rocky bay shore of Flamengo also provided places to see and be seen. Sea-bathing gave way to beach-going and sun-tanning in the new beachfront neighborhood of Copacabana in the 1920s. This study reveals the social and cultural implications of this transformation and highlights the distinctive changes to urban living that took place in the Brazilian capital. Deeply informed by scholarship about race, class, and gender, as well as civilization and modernity, space, the body, and the role of the state in shaping urban development, this work provides a major contribution to the social and cultural history of Rio de Janeiro and to the history of leisure.
A Ficção da Página: Seleção de Ensaios sobre a Literatura Brasileira
Não cabe aqui uma valorização da contribuição analítica deste trabalho, pois já foi feita várias vezes e é hoje uma referência indispensável nos estudos de Drummond. Na época, no entanto, era também uma provocação metodológica, pois pela primeira vez Gilberto formulou suas premissas teóricas em contraste com as duas correntes predominantes na teoria da literatura, a corrente historicista de cunho marxista, por um lado, e a corrente estruturalista seguindo a ortodoxia francesa, articulada inicialmente por Levy-Strauss e aplicada na literatura por teóricos como Barthes, Kristeva e Todorov. Sem dúvida, Gilberto se encontrava mais próximo da segunda corrente que da primeira, ...
