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O Filho de Gabriela
Dos textos mais notáveis de Lima Barreto, o conto "O filha de Gabriela" narra a história de Horácio, órfão da empregada Gabriela, que é criado pela madrinha – ex-patroa de sua mãe –, Dona Laura. Taciturno, frágil, o protagonista encarna o mundo assustador das pessoas solitárias, trazendo questionamentos pungentes sobre o sentido da vida.
Jorge Amado
Jorge Amado is simultaneously one of Brazil's most prolific and widely read novelists and one of its most controversial. Seeking to offer for his English-speaking audience the same range of critical thinking that surrounds his work in Brazil, this volume provides an introduction and chronology to Amado's life, followed by a comprehensive survey of his major works by some of the world's leading Latin American Studies scholars. As the case of Jorge Amado is central to the emergence of Brazilian literature in the twentieth century, this volume of original essays will place him in clearer critical perspective for English language readers.
Lima Barreto
This edited volume is a collection of twelve interdisciplinary essays from various Brazilian literary scholars, historians, and anthropologists analyzing the work of 19th- and 20th-century Afro-Brazilian writer Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto. This is the first collection to present a cohesive analysis of this writer’s work in English. It is an intellectually diverse collection of essays that recover Barreto’s œuvreand consider a wide range of topics, including Barreto’s treatment of race, family, class, social and gender politics of postabolition Brazil, neocolonialism, the disjuncture between urban and suburban spaces, and national identity politics.
Brazilian Railway Culture
Brazilian Railway Culture examines the cultural relationship Brazil has had with its railways since tracks were first laid by British, American and French engineers in the nineteenth century. ‘Railway’ and ‘Brazil’ are words not often found in the same sentence. Yet each year over seven hundred million passengers are carried by train in the major urban centres, and tens of thousands of visitors enjoy heritage steam rides at over a dozen restored lines and museums. Brazilian Railway Culture starts from the premise that Brazilian society and culture is not just samba, football and sex. The book takes a journey through Brazilian cultural output from 1865 to the present day, examining no...
A Companion to Latin American Literature
A Companion to Latin American Literature offers a lively and informative introduction to the most significant literary works produced in Latin America from the fifteenth century until the present day. It shows how the press, and its product the printed word, functioned as the common denominator binding together, in different ways over time, the complex and variable relationship between the writer, the reader and the state. The meandering story of the evolution of Latin American literature - from the letters of discovery written by Christopher Columbus and Vaz de Caminha, via the Republican era at the end of the nineteenth century when writers in Rio de Janeiro as much as in Buenos Aires were...
Literature and Health
The dive into reading, thinking, and literary creation sparked the desire to further deepen our dialogue between literature and healthcare, as well as the teaching practice of some group members, involved in undergraduate, graduate education, extension, and research. Our daily professional practice leads us to believe that teamwork can, on one hand, produce better results in healthcare for individuals, families, and communities, and on the other hand, improve job satisfaction for professionals. Thus, this project presents as a product a book produced collaboratively by professionals from different fields, united by their passion for literature, for connections, for emotional exchanges, and for the challenges of creating a polyphonic discourse.
Between Brown and Black
With new momentum, the Brazilian black movement is working to bring attention to and change the situation of structural racism in Brazil. Black consciousness advocates are challenging Afro-Brazilians to define themselves and politically organize around being black, and more Afro-Brazilians are increasingly doing so. Other segments of the Brazilian black movement are working to influence legislation and implement formal mechanisms that aim to promote racial equality, including Affirmative Action Racial Verification Committees. For advocates of these committees, one needs to be phenotypically black enough to be a more likely target of racism to qualify for Affirmative Action programs. Paradoxi...
Direito médico e saúde contemporâneos
Livro elaborado por integrantes da comissão do direito médico e da saúde da OAB/SP, reunindo profissionais com larga experiência e atuação na área, professores e pesquisadores que abordam os temas mais atuais do direito médico, como negativa de custeio de tratamento, home care, acesso ao prontuário, consentimento esclarecido, judicialização, medicamentos de alto custo, saturação informativa, proteção de dados e reprodução humana pós-morte. O livro é prefaciado por dois eminentes juristas, um juiz de direito e a presidenta da comissão do direito médico e da saúde da OAB/SP.
