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Sphinx
At his boardinghouse in Rio de Janeiro, the Englishman James Marian is seen as handsome but eccentric. Then another boarder learns Marian's secret: a fusion of a female head and a male body, Marian is the creation of a surgeon with occult powers. Despite his wealth and mysterious abilities, Marian is unable to live fully as either a man or a woman, traveling the world in order to repress his sexual desire and withdraw from society. Sphinx explores the binaries of science and magic, body and spirit, male and female, attraction and horror, presenting its sexually ambiguous protagonist with sympathy. Ornately descriptive, this 1908 neo-gothic novel exemplifies the era's taste for the sensual and the fantastic. With echoes of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, it stands as a classic of Brazilian science fiction.
7 melhores contos de Coelho Neto
Na coleção Sete Melhores Contos o crítico August Nemo apresenta autores que fazem parte da história da literatura em língua portuguesa. Neste volume temos Coelho Neto, escritor brasileiro, membro da Academia Brasileira de Letras onde foi o fundador da Cadeira número 2. Foi considerado o "Príncipe dos Prosadores Brasileiros", numa votação realizada em 1928 pela revista O Malho. Coelho Neto foi um dos folcloristas que, com visão romântica, procuraram resgatar a imagem da capoeira no país, até então vista como uma prática de marginais, como sendo um esporte genuinamente brasileiro; defendia que fosse ensinada nas escolas e nas forças armadas, nestas últimas como técnica de defesa pessoal. Não deixe de conferir os demais volumes desta série! Os contos presentes nessa obra são: A Cidade Maravilhosa. A Morte do Estadista. Um Excêntrico. O Mineiro. O Paradoxo Contemporâneo. A Sorte. Conspiração.
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The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature
The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature is by far the most comprehensive work of its kind ever written. Its three volumes cover the whole sweep of Latin American literature (including Brazilian) from pre-Colombian times to the present, and contain chapters on Latin American writing in the USA. Volume 3 is devoted partly to the history of Brazilian literature, from the earliest writing through the colonial period and the Portuguese-language traditions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; and partly also to an extensive bibliographical section in which annotated reading lists relating to the chapters in all three volumes of The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature are presented. These bibliographies are a unique feature of the History, further enhancing its immense value as a reference work.
A Tropical Belle Epoque
This book, originally published in 1987, is a socio-cultural analysis of a tropical belle epoque: Rio de Janeiro between 1898 and 1914. It relates how the city's elite evolved from the semi-rural, slave-owning patriarchy of the coffee-port seat of a monarchy into an urbane, professional, rentier upper crust dominating the centre of a 'modernising' oligarchical republic. It explores such varied topics as architecture, literature, prostitution, urban reform, the family, secondary schools, and the salon. It evokes a milieu increasingly marked by Europe, demonstrating how French and English culture permeated the lives of elite members who adapted it to their needs and perspectives as a dominant stratum of relatively recent and varied origin. This exploration of cultural 'dependency' in a unique, cosmopolitan, fin-de-siecle urban culture will also interest those concerned with the broader questions of culture and colonialism during the high tide of European imperialism.
A Conquista
Publicado em 1899, o romance narra as aventuras e desventuras da geração de poetas, teatrólogos, jornalistas, intelectuais, boêmios na cidade do Rio de Janeiro, nos anos em que a campanha abolicionista estava a pleno vapor, culminando com a libertação dos escravos. Uma reconstituição da vida literária dos fins do século XIX, enfocando a geração boêmia, que perambulava pelo Rio de Janeiro. Henrique Maximiano Coelho Neto, (1864 /1934) foi escritor, político e professor brasileiro, membro fundador da Academia Brasileira de Letras. Sua obra apresenta influências do Realismo. Seu temperamento é romântico e sua ficção é rica em costumes nacionais, manifestando uma preocupação com a situação do homem comum diante da cruel e corrompida sociedade moderna.
The Carnivalesque Defunto
The Carnivalesque Defunto explores the representations of death and the dead in Brazil’s collective and literary imagination. The recurring stereotype of Brazil as the land of samba, soccer, and sandy beaches overlooks a more complex cultural heritage in which, since colonial times, a relationship of proximity and reciprocity has been cultivated between the living and the dead. Robert H. Moser details the emergence of a prominent motif in modern Brazilian literature, namely the carnivalesque defunto (the dead) that, in the form of a protagonist or narrator, returns to beseech, instruct, chastise, or even seduce the living. Drawing upon the works of esteemed Brazilian writers such as Machad...
African Heritage and Memories of Slavery in Brazil and the South Atlantic World
This book explores the history of African tangible and intangible heritages and its links with the public memory of slavery in Brazil and Angola. The two countries are deeply connected, given how most enslaved Africans, forcibly brought to Brazil during the era of the Atlantic slave trade, were from West Central Africa. Brazil imported the largest number of enslaved Africans during the Atlantic slave trade and was the last country in the western hemisphere to abolish slavery in 1888. Today, other than Nigeria, the largest population of African descent is in Brazil. Yet it was only in the last twenty years that Brazil's African heritage and its slave past have gained greater visibility. Prior...
Historical Dictionary of Latin American Literature and Theater
The Historical Dictionary of Latin American Literature and Theater provides users with an accessible single-volume reference tool covering Portuguese-speaking Brazil and the 16 Spanish-speaking countries of continental Latin America (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela). Entries for authors, ranging from the early colonial period to the present, give succinct biographical data and an account of the author's literary production, with particular attention to their most prominent works and where they belong in literary history. The introduction provides a review of Latin Ame...
