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Modernity in Black and White
In his first single-authored English-language work, Rafael Cardoso offers a re-evaluation of modern art and modernism in Brazil.
Challenging the Black Atlantic
The historical novels of Manuel Zapata Olivella and Ana Maria Gonçalves map black journeys from Africa to the Americas in a way that challenges the Black Atlantic paradigm that has become synonymous with cosmopolitan African diaspora studies. Unlike Paul Gilroy, who coined the term and based it on W.E.B. DuBois’s double consciousness, Zapata, in Changó el gran putas (1983), creates an empowering mythology that reframes black resistance in Colombia, Haiti, Mexico, Brazil, and the United States. In Um defeito de cor (2006), Gonçalves imagines the survival strategies of a legendary woman said to be the mother of black abolitionist poet Luís Gama and a conspirator in an African Muslim–led revolt in Brazil’s “Black Rome.” These novels show differing visions of revolution, black community, femininity, sexuality, and captivity. They skillfully reveal how events preceding the UNESCO Decade of Afro-Descent (2015–2024) alter our understanding of Afro-Latin America as it gains increased visibility. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Spanish and Latin American Women’s Crime Fiction in the New Millennium
Crime fiction written by women in Spain and Latin America since the late 1980s has been successful in shifting attention to crimes often overlooked by their male counterparts, such as rape and sexual battery, domestic violence, child pornography, pederasty, and incest. In the twenty-first century, social, economic, and political issues, including institutional corruption, class inequality, criminalized oppression of immigrant women, crass capitalist market forces, and mediatized political and religious bodies, have at their core a gendered dimension. The conventions of the original noir, or novela negra, genre have evolved, such that some women authors challenge the noir formulas by foregrounding gender concerns while others imagine new models of crime fiction that depart drastically from the old paradigms. This volume, highlighting such evolution in the crime fiction genre, will be of interest to students, teachers, and scholars of crime fiction in Latin America and Spain, to those interested in crime fiction by women, and to readers familiar with the sub-genres of crime fiction, which include noir, the thriller, the police procedural, and the “cozy” novel.
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No fio da navalha:
"Giovanna Dealtry se espraia pelas materializações da malandragem na literatura e na cultura brasileira, que se alinhavam entre bambas e bacharéis, corpos e astúcias, com sua nítida identidade e, ainda assim, sempre em mutação. Encontramos aqui complexidades que, infelizmente, ainda não se aprendem no colégio e que nos convidam a refletir sobre as brechas da identidade cultural brasileira.A nova edição de No fio da navalha – malandragem na literatura e no samba vem assim suprir uma lacuna nas discussões em torno do tema articulando aspectos da cultura e da literatura centradas no Rio de Janeiro." - Monica Vermes
Making Samba
In November 1916, a young Afro-Brazilian musician named Donga registered sheet music for the song "Pelo telefone" ("On the Telephone") at the National Library in Rio de Janeiro. This apparently simple act—claiming ownership of a musical composition—set in motion a series of events that would shake Brazil's cultural landscape. Before the debut of "Pelo telephone," samba was a somewhat obscure term, but by the late 1920s, the wildly popular song had helped to make it synonymous with Brazilian national music. The success of "Pelo telephone" embroiled Donga in controversy. A group of musicians claimed that he had stolen their work, and a prominent journalist accused him of selling out his people in pursuit of profit and fame. Within this single episode are many of the concerns that animate Making Samba, including intellectual property claims, the Brazilian state, popular music, race, gender, national identity, and the history of Afro-Brazilians in Rio de Janeiro. By tracing the careers of Rio's pioneering black musicians from the late nineteenth century until the 1970s, Marc A. Hertzman revises the histories of samba and of Brazilian national culture.
O futuro pelo retrovisor
Não mais ruptura, e sim reinvenção. Munida de um astuto senso bricoleur, a literatura brasileira contemporânea tem revisitado intensamente o passado. E, nessa revisita, opera uma espécie muito peculiar de pilhagem – aquela baseada no atrito entre diferentes temporalidades, entre as distintas formas de reinventar o moderno. Em O futuro pelo retrovisor – Inquietudes da literatura brasileira contemporânea, 17 estudiosos observam a obra de 17 autores nacionais, buscando analisar diferentes aspectos dessa reapropriação do passado. Com isso, derrubam um estereótipo corriqueiro na crítica atual: o de que toda a novidade na ficção nacional de agora consiste numa "multiplicidade impos...
Citizenship and Crisis in Contemporary Brazilian Literature
Considering how literary texts address the transformations that Brazil has undergone since its 1985 transition to democracy, this study proposes that Brazilian contemporary literature is informed by the struggle for social, civil, and cultural rights and that literary production has created spaces for historically disenfranchised communities.
Memórias de um sargento de milícias
Quando o Brasil ainda estava sob as barbas do Império e as ruas do Rio de Janeiro eram tomadas por lamentos e comemorações de toda natureza, nascia, numa esquina qualquer, uma figura incendiária: o malandro. Eram os anos de 1852 e 1853 quando começou a surgir — aos poucos, em folhetins — uma obra que não apenas marcaria a literatura brasileira, mas se firmaria como um dos grandes símbolos antimoralismo do país. Era o Rio no tempo do rei, afinal de contas, mas nem só de pompa e circunstância se faz uma cidade. Memórias de um sargento de milícias é uma história de pessoas simples, cercadas de alegrias e desventuras. Na contramão do romantismo do século XIX, o romance expõe...
