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War and Literature: Looking Back on 20th Century Armed Conflicts
This comprehensive volume analyzes the radical change in the nature of armed conflicts and in the way they are narrated and represented. Ever since the First World War has changed war itself, rendering meaningless the very vocabulary of war in terms such as "battle", "front", "non-combatant", "open city" and "hero", new words, new approaches, new theories and new texts had to be invented. The enemy became invisible: Submarines, tanks, mines, gas, long-range artillery, and airplanes made this war different from all the other that came before. A hundred years after the beginning of this terrible war, it is now time to recall different representations of the armed conflicts of the 20th century. The articles in this collection analyze representations of the Canudos Civil War in Brazil, the First World War, the Second World War, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the colonial wars in Africa, and the war in Afghanistan, aiming to understand how war and the telling of war have changed during the most murderous hundred years in the history of mankind.
"There It Is": Narratives of the Vietnam War
This book provides a critical survey of the literature on the Vietnam War and is intended both for academic and general readers. Earlier works of this kind constantly recycled criticism of a half-dozen of the same works. In this study, the aim was to discuss a much greater number of works, including a few that have never been discussed. To appeal to non-academic readers, Lit-Crit jargon was kept to a minimum, and parallels with earlier works of war literature, especially those of the two world wars, were established.
Lines of Geography in Latin American Narrative
This book looks to the writings of prolific statesmen like D.F. Sarmiento, Estanislao Zeballos, and Euclides da Cunha to unearth the literary and political roots of the discipline of geography in nineteenth-century Latin America. Tracing the simultaneous rise of text-writing, map-making, and institution-building, it offers new insight into how nations consolidated their territories. Beginning with the titanic figures of Strabo and Humboldt, it rereads foundational works like Facundo and Os sertões as examples of a recognizably geographical discourse. The book digs into lesser-studied bulletins, correspondence, and essays to tell the story of how three statesmen became literary stars while spearheading Latin America’s first geographic institutes, which sought to delineate the newly independent states. Through a fresh pairing of literary analysis and institutional history, it reveals that words and maps—literature and geography—marched in lockstep to shape national territories, identities, and narratives.
Futebol
The updated edition of Alex Bellos's modern classic about Brazilian football, published to coincide with the 2014 World Cup
Traces of the Unseen
A richly illustrated examination of photography as a technology for documenting, creating, and understanding the processes of modernization in turn-of-the-century Brazil and the Amazon Photography at the turn of the twentieth century was not only a product of modernity but also an increasingly available medium to chronicle the processes of modernization. Traces of the Unseen: Photography, Violence, and Modernization in Early Twentieth-Century Latin America situates photography’s role in documenting the destruction wrought by infrastructure development and extractive capitalist expansion in the Amazon and outside the Brazilian metropole. Combining formal analysis of individual photographs w...
Revisiting 20th Century Wars
The collection at hand is a subjective, but representative selection of articles in German and English on the representation of bellicose acts in modern times. The wide range of wars treated in these essays begins with the Canudos Civil War in the Brazilian state of Bahia in 1896-97. The various articles include new perceptions and interpretations of the First World War, the Spanish Civil War of 1936-39, the Holocaust, the Second World War, the Korean War, the wars in the former Portuguese colonies of Africa, and the Balkan Wars of the last decade of the 20th century, and close with the current war in Afghanistan, which began in 2001. The wars discussed, although having different origins, su...
Ernst Jünger-Bibliographie. Fortsetzung
Die vorliegende Bibliographie zu Ernst Jünger führt den 2003 erschienenen Vorgängerband weiter und dokumentiert die komplexe Forschungsgeschichte bis zum Jahr 2015 in übersichtlicher Systematik: Monographien, Kongress-Schriften, Beiträge in Zeitschriften und Sammelwerken, versteckte Buchkapitel und Nachträge zum vorausgegangenen Berichtszeitraum. Der Registerteil bietet vielfältige Suchhilfen nach Namen, Begriffen und Werktiteln. Für die Auseinandersetzung mit Leben und Werk Ernst Jüngers, der sich mittlerweile als Klassiker der Moderne etabliert hat, ist die neue Bibliographie ein unentbehrlicher Kompass.
O FUTURO DAS METRÓPOLES desigualdades e governabilidade
Resultado da coletânea de artigos apresentados no seminário O futuro das metrópoles, este livro busca compreender as transformações das metrópoles na dupla dimensão: entender o seu presente e pensar o seu futuro. Por esse motivo, os textos aqui reunidos são marcados pela tensão inerente a todo trabalho de pesquisa que se pretenda científico e engajado. Textos engajados, antes de tudo por traduzirem o posicionamento crítico quanto às idéias, às visões e aos modelos teóricos que circulam no mundo acadêmico e fora dele e que fundam não só as pretensas demonstrações sobre os impactos da transformações econômicos sobre as grandes cidades, como também as narrativas catastr...
São Paulo Yearbook
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Globalisierte Erinnerungskultur
Hat sich das Gedächtnis des Nationalsozialismus globalisiert? Entstehen an den Peripherien des Erinnerungsraums neue Narrative und Darstellungsverfahren? Entstehen in den Sprachen und Literaturen anderer Kontinente unterschiedliche Sichtweisen auf den Nationalsozialismus oder droht seine globale Kommerzialisierung? Die Beiträge des Bandes untersuchen neuere Darstellungen von Nationalsozialismus, Holocaust und Exil in peripheralisierten Literatur- und Kulturräumen. Dabei berücksichtigen sie auch transnationale Transfers und Migration und fokussieren auf die zahlreichen - und bislang unzulänglich erforschten - Darstellungen aus Spanien und Lateinamerika, Afrika, Indien und Osteuropa.
