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Magazines and Modernity in Brazil
Although published as part of a series on Brazilian studies, central to this collection are not the concepts of nation or nationhood but those of transnational networks and cross-cultural exchanges. The concept of nation is of limited value to account for the periodical print culture as a global phenomenon marked by transnational movements such as those involving capital flows, commodities, people, ideas and editorial models. In this vein, what these chapters explore is not so much the concept of influence – which often plays a central role in Eurocentric analyses – but those of circulation and interaction. The notion of “circulation” here emphasised is more appropriate to the study of cultural exchanges, focusing on the movements of and engagements with ideas and concepts, as well as the appropriated models and the people involved in the publication and consumption of magazines. What the reader will find in these essays are analysis of numerous processes of transnational cultural negotiations.
History of Brazilian Journalism
This book constitutes a first-of-its-kind synthesis of the development of journalism in Brazil, considering both its mediations with national social and political life and its relationships of influence and dependence on international economic centers. The author suggests that Brazilian journalism has so far known four phases: doctrinal political journalism, narrative literary journalism, industrial news journalism, and multimedia infotainment journalism. Devoting a chapter to each phase, Daros presents a critical map of the genesis and metamorphosis of journalistic practices in the country. The analysis goes beyond a mere study of national history to mark the points of connection between th...
Literature and Ethics in Contemporary Brazil
Illuminating the relevance of literature as a catalyst for rethinking Brazil, this book offers a resistance to the official discourses that have worked to conceal social tensions, injustices, and secular inequities in Brazilian society.
Magazines, Tourism, and Nation-Building in Mexico
This open access book discusses the relationship between periodicals, tourism, and nation-building in Mexico. It enquires into how magazines, a staple form of the promotional apparatus of tourism since its inception, articulated an imaginative geography of Mexico at a time when that industry became a critical means of economic recovery and political stability after the Revolution. Notwithstanding their vogue, popularity, reach, and close affiliations to commerce and state over several decades, magazines have not received any sustained critical attention in the scholarship on that period. This book aims to redress that oversight. It argues that illustrated magazines like Mexican Folkways (1925–1937) and Mexico This Month (1955–1971) offer rich and compelling materials in that regard, not only as unique tools for interrogating the ramifications of tourism on the country’s reconstruction, but as autonomous objects of study that form a vital if complex part of Mexico’s visual culture.
2023
This thirteenth volume of the International Yearbook of Futurism Studies explores some of the many facets of Neo-Futurism from the second half of the twentieth century to the present day. It looks both at the revival and the continuation of Futurist aesthetics, whether in explicit or palimpsest form, in a variety of media: literature, visual art, design, music, architecture, theatre and photography. The essays delve into the broad spectrum of artistic research and offer a good dozen case studies that document, with a transnational and interdisciplinary orientation, the manifold forms of Neo-Futurism in various parts of the world. They investigate how historical Futurism's intellectual and artistic perspective was appropriated and developed further in a more or less conscious, faithful and original way, all the while confronting its progenitor's cultural, social and political misconceptions. Interdisciplinary contributions to neo-futurism as a global phenomenon
Fiddles in Luso-Afro-Brazilian Cultures
Fiddles in Luso-Afro-Brazilian Cultures presents fresh data and debates drawn from extensive research to broaden the study of African music by focusing on fiddle playing, exploring rhythm aesthetics and tonal systems within cultural contexts. Focused on Cape Verde, Mozambique and Brazil, the research maps cultural affiliations, addressing cultural displacement and historical ties. It engages with post-colonial power dynamics, highlighting fiddle playing as a form of resistance and revival. Primarily aimed at academic researchers in ethnomusicology and related fields, the book provides detailed analytical descriptions and narratives of artists, instruments and playing styles. It contributes to discussions on music, decolonisation and diasporic communities’ demands for authenticity and recognition. By revealing lesser-known fiddle traditions, it enriches the world music genre, attracting both academic and general readers interested in transcultural music studies.
Literatura e repressão
A obra Literatura e Repressão: as letras como campo de resistência a políticas totalitárias, organizada por Evelyn Mello, aborda os efeitos da perseguição política e a consequente reação ao fascismo, a fim de problematizar obras literárias que tratam da formação e denúncia de regimes políticos de exceção e/ou cenários de opressão política. Estruturado em seis capítulos, o livro apresenta uma evolução cronológica dos fatos históricos, discutindo desde as mazelas sociais brasileiras retratadas na obra de Lima Barreto, os movimentos de repressão e resistência nos seringais acreanos até o estudo de uma peça teatral utilizada como proposta de atividade em livro didático de língua espanhola.
Lima Barreto - Triste visionário
Prêmio APCA 2017 de melhor biografia Em monumental biografia de Lima Barreto, Lilia Moritz Schwarcz investiga as origens, a trajetória e o destino do escritor carioca sob a ótica racial no Rio de Janeiro da Primeira República. Durante mais de dez anos, Lilia Moritz Schwarcz mergulhou na obra de Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto para realizar um perfil biográfico que abrangesse o corpo, a alma e os livros do escritor de Todos os Santos. Esta, que é a mais completa biografia de Lima Barreto desde o trabalho pioneiro de Francisco de Assis Barbosa, lançado em 1952, resulta da apaixonada intimidade de Schwarcz com o criador de Policarpo Quaresma — e de um olhar aguçado que busca compreen...
Transatlantic Radio Dramas
The BBC Latin American Service was created in 1938, funded by the British Ministry of Information, to counter fascist propaganda broadcast to Latin America. Now considered one of the major Latin American novelists of the twentieth century, Brazilian writer Antônio Callado (1917–1997) got his start writing radio drama scripts for the BBC LAS during and after World War II. Largely forgotten until Daniel Mandur Thomaz collected them in a 2018 volume published in Brazil, these radio scripts were propaganda in their own right and were part of a concerted effort to win sympathy for Britain and the Allies in Latin America. They reveal how Callado’s experiences during the war influenced his writing and had a critical impact on themes he would revisit consistently throughout his literary career. Transatlantic Radio Dramas analyzesthe scripts themselves, but also examines the institutions, material practices, and beliefs that allowed modernist transatlantic networks like the BBC LAS to flourish.
Crônicas da Bruzundanga
Os textos selecionados para esta edição tratam, por um lado, daquilo que Lima Barreto chamava de literatura militante, e, por outro, como essa atuação acontecia nos periódicos. Nesse sentido, o leitor tem aqui uma mistura de ensaios, crônicas, contos e cartas que discutem a inserção do escritor naquele princípio de sociedade de massa no Brasil. Junto com a caricatura, a fotografia e o cinema, a literatura breve era, naquele momento, um dos meios mais eficazes nos esforços de comunicação de massa. Lima Barreto vê nesse novo contexto uma possibilidade de utilizar a arte literária como motor de mudança de mentalidades, focando principalmente o público de trabalhadores de colarin...
