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Theoretical Perspectives on Human Rights and Literature
What can literary theory reveal about discourses and practices of human rights, and how can human rights frameworks help to make sense of literature? How have human rights concerns shaped the literary marketplace, and how can literature impact human rights concerns? Essays in this volume theorize how both literature and reading literarily can shape understanding of human rights in productive ways. Contributors to Theoretical Perspectives on Human Rights and Literature provide a shared history of modern literature and rights; theorize how trauma, ethics, subjectivity, and witnessing shape representations of human rights violations and claims in literary texts across a range of genres (includi...
Handbook of The River Plate
Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.
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.
Affect and Realism in Contemporary Brazilian Fiction
This book is about contemporary Brazilian fiction from the past two decades and concerned with the possibilities of literary intervention in the reality of the historical moment. Thus, an understanding of the actual role of literature is strategic in the definition of the contemporary, and the book shows an optimism among current writers and artists with respect to the aesthetic, ethical, and political role of literature and art in the twentieth century. In contemporary Brazilian prose, two simultaneous ambitions are often reconciled. The commitment to individual or social reality is a challenge that is assumed without thereby necessarily accepting and following the molds of the traditional search for national or cultural identities. This foundation is one of the constants of contemporary prose, without thereby eliminating the continuous existence of a formal experimentalism that is the clearest heir of the modernist project.
Literary Tourism
Literary tourism is a nascent field in tourism studies, yet tourists often travel in the footsteps of well-known authors and stories. Providing a wide-ranging cornucopia of literary tourism topics, this book fully explores the interconnections between the written word and travel. It includes tourism stories using guidebooks, films, television and electronic media, and recognises that stories, texts and narratives, even if they cannot be classified as traditional travel writing, can become journeys in themselves and take us on imaginary voyages. Appealing to a wide audience of different disciplines, it encompasses subjects such as business literary writing, historical journeys and the poetry of Dylan Thomas. The use of these different perspectives demonstrates how heavily and widely literature influences travel, tourists and tourism, making it an important read for researchers and students of tourism, social science and literature.
KRYPTON – VOL.5/6 – 2015 – VIOLENZA
Periodico semestrale del Dipartimento di Lingue, Letterature e Culture Straniere
Challenging Memories and Rebuilding Identities
Taking an original approach, Challenging Memories and Rebuilding Identities: Literary and Artistic Voices that undo the Lusophone Atlantic explores a selected body of cultural works from Portugal, Brazil and Lusophone Africa. Contributors from various fields of expertise examine the ways contemporary writers, artists, directors, and musicians explore canonical forms in visual arts, cinema, music and literature, and introduce innovation in their narratives, at the same time they discuss the social and historical context they belong to.
À luz da cegueira - vol. 1
"Meditação 17" reúne cem minirromances de um único autor. Os temas são os mais variados: uns retratam experiências triviais do cotidiano; outros abordam, simbolicamente, a estupidez ontológica do homem, das cavernas pré-históricas às cavernas presentes; as reflexões recorrentes sobre o suicídio se irmanam a enredos sobre a arte – como a música de Sebastian Bach, o método paranoico-crítico de Dalí, a abstração de Kandinsky. Em termos de estilo, uns são mais expansivos – duas ou três páginas –, outros se aproximam da "estética da indigência", de Samuel Beckett. Em diálogo com a literatura, há textos sobre poéticas da atualidade, como também aqueles que se embasam em tragédias gregas, em Shakespeare, em Borges, e até na batalha final de Alonso Quijano. Nessas variações, o leitor logo perceberá que cada texto é independente, podendo ser lido em qualquer ordem. E a leitura é sempre surpreendente e de estímulo a novas buscas literárias.
