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Uma narrativa épica, que apresenta a epopeia do polonês Antonio Rebendoleng Szervinsk O Polonês) e sua chegada ao Brasil. Essa epopeia é resultado da poesia oral remanescente na memória e nos lábios do descendentes do Polonês, que formam uma miríade de gentes, com suas culturas marcadas pelo regionalismo, tradicionalismo cerratense e toda a beleza própria da poesia nativa do cerrado.
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Ler Mosaico das Artes é mergulhar nas inúmeras possibilidades analíticas que relacionam a Literatura às outras Artes. Seja por meio das relações que aproximam a Literatura a outra Arte, como extensão da Literatura Comparada, ou por meio das relações nas quais Artes como a Pintura, a Fotografia, o Teatro e a Música fazem parte do texto Literário. Esta obra convida o leitor a transcender o conceito de Literatura como texto escrito e a explorar e expandir as fronteiras interartes.
Intonations tells the story of how Angola's urban residents in the late colonial period (roughly 1945-74) used music to talk back to their colonial oppressors and, more importantly, to define what it meant to be Angolan and what they hoped to gain from independence. A compilation of Angolan music is included in CD format. Marissa J. Moorman presents a social and cultural history of the relationship between Angolan culture and politics. She argues that it was in and through popular urban music, produced mainly in the musseques (urban shantytowns) of the capital city, Luanda, that Angolans forged the nation and developed expectations about nationalism. Through careful archival work and extensi...
In this poignant novel, a man guilty of a minor offense finds purpose unexpectedly by way of his punishment—reading to others. After an accident—or “the misfortune,” as his cancer-ridden father’s caretaker, Celeste, calls it—Eduardo is sentenced to a year of community service reading to the elderly and disabled. Stripped of his driver’s license and feeling impotent as he nears thirty-five, he leads a dull, lonely life, chatting occasionally with the waitresses of a local restaurant or walking the streets of Cuernavaca. Once a quiet town known for its lush gardens and swimming pools, the “City of Eternal Spring” is now plagued by robberies, kidnappings, and the other myriad ...