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Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History
Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History: From Antiquity to the Mid-Twentieth Century is a comprehensive and fascinating survey of the key figures in gay and lesbian history from classical times to the mid-twentieth century. Among those included are: * Classical heroes - Achilles; Aeneas; Ganymede * Literary giants - Sappho; Christopher Marlowe; Arthur Rimbaud; Oscar Wilde * Royalty and politicians - Edward II; King James I; Horace Walpole; Michel de Montaigne. Over the course of some 500 entries, expert contributors provide a complete and vivid picture of gay and lesbian life in the Western world throughout the ages.
The Book of Rio
It’s the city the rest of the world descends on to party…. whether for the spectacular annual Carnival, the sun-kissed beaches, the World Cup, or, in 2016, the Olympics. It’s also a place that’s sadly become synonymous with some of the excesses of partying, the dark underbelly that accompanies any urban hedonist’s destination. But these are just two images of Rio. There are countless others: opulent seat of two former empires; stronghold of brutal, twentieth-century dictatorships; sprawling metropolis stretched between stunning mountain tops and equally stunningeconomic extremes – from the affluence of neighbourhoods like Leblon and Ipanema, to the overcrowded slums in the foothi...
Beyond Carnival
For many foreign observers, Brazil still conjures up a collage of exotic images, ranging from the camp antics of Carmen Miranda to the bronzed girl (or boy) from Ipanema moving sensually over the white sands of Rio's beaches. Among these tropical fantasies is that of the uninhibited and licentious Brazilian homosexual, who expresses uncontrolled sexuality during wild Carnival festivities and is welcomed by a society that accepts fluid sexual identity. However, in Beyond Carnival, the first sweeping cultural history of male homosexuality in Brazil, James Green shatters these exotic myths and replaces them with a complex picture of the social obstacles that confront Brazilian homosexuals. Rang...
João do Rio: Uma antologia
Antologia histórica de textos do autor homenageado na Flip 2024 retorna às livrarias com nova capa. É difícil distinguir onde termina o jornalismo e começa a literatura na obra de João do Rio. Nascido João Paulo Alberto Coelho Barreto, estreou cedo, aos 17 anos, na revista Cidade do Rio, e apenas dois anos depois começou a contribuir para a Gazeta de Notícias, periódico que acolheria os textos que o tornaram imortal da literatura brasileira. João do Rio foi, antes de tudo, um observador das ruas, dos costumes e das gentes. Um flâneur. Com brilho e engenho verbal, eternizou o início do século, a modernização do Brasil e, em especial, da capital da República, o Rio de Janeiro....
Religions in Rio
João do Rio (1881-1921) was a literary journalist before his time, before the term existed, before anyone saw that journalism could be raised to the level of art by infusing it with intellecual insight and sociological analysis. He went wherever necessary to observe life as Rio de Janeiro struggled to enter the 20th century while clinging to its traditional imperial politics and lifestyle. He flaunted his homosexuality a century before it became socially acceptable. Here, for the first time in English, are João do Rio's reports on the bizarre confluence of European, North American, and African religions that found adherents in Rio de Janeiro. Candomblé, Spiritism, Positivism, Satanism, Ju...
Tentative Transgressions
Starting at the beginning of the twentieth century, Albuquerque examines the way the Modernist movement both fueled and inhibited the use of gay imagery in Brazilian drama. This elegant and fluid study ultimately becomes an examination of a whole Latin society, and the ways in which Latin theatre has absorbed and reflected the culture's own changing sensibilities, that will intrigue anyone interested in Latin American culture, literature, or theater. Winner, 2008 Elizabeth A. Steinberg Prize
João do Rio: Vida, paixão e obra
Nesta edição com capa nova, João Carlos Rodrigues abrange com maestria não apenas a obra cintilante de João do Rio e a vida pessoal nebulosa do cronista, mas também os tempos em que viveu. Oportuno e necessário, este livro de João Carlos Rodrigues se firmou como a melhor biografia de uma das figuras mais originais, independentes, brilhantes, fecundas e pioneiras que a nossa literatura já produziu, autor de vivência e observação agudas para além das dimensões de reportagem ou crônica, o que enganosamente parece ter circulado durante anos. Esta biografia ajuda a cortar rente os preconceitos em torno de João do Rio. Enfiado na imprensa desde a adolescência, irrequieto e atento ...
O mo(n)struário de João do Rio
João Paulo Emílio Cristóvão dos Santos Coelho Barreto, ou “João do Rio”, publica em 1911 uma coletânea de contos, intitulada Dentro da noite, que revela uma clara inclinação de natureza estética aos trabalhos de escritores icônicos do decadentismo europeu, contendo vasto grupo de tipos e arquétipos comuns à cultura finissecular carioca. Através das histórias descontínuas e de aspecto fragmentário de Dentro da noite, busca-se compreender as indagações, expectativas, frustrações e agonias do burguês moderno, peça ícone da Belle Époque do Rio de Janeiro, indivíduo que não encontra em lugar algum uma alma solidária disposta a dividir o peso sufocante da existência...
Prince of the People
Silva provides a case study of the life and ideas of the self-styled Dom Oba II d'Africa, Prince of the People and "street character."
