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The Women of Tijucopapo
Marilene Felinto is one of a new wave of young Brazilian writers, and her work is among the very best. Born in 1957 in the northeast of Brazil, she moved to São Paulo in early adolescence and completed her university education there. Her fiction connects the striking contrasts of a young woman's experience and the cross-purposes of modern Brazil. In The Women of Tijucopapo nothing can be taken for granted since everything might be taken away. Risia is a heroine little interested in being heroic All she wants is for her life "to have a happy ending." To find it she must go back to Tijucopapo, where her mother was born. One moonlit night her grandmother gave away a baby, and that baby was Ris...
Mulher Feita e Outros Contos
Como podemos comparar um homem que deixou de ser escritor para se dedicar ao ofício de mecânico com uma mulher que viaja em um trem de Berlim para Munique enquanto observa outra passageira comer um ovo, e ainda, com uma menina que não aceita o fato de não ser notada por um colega de classe? Como esses e outros personagens tão diversos podem confluir? Aparentemente, não há nada que nos faça pensar que histórias tão banais possam se interligar, mas, nos dez textos de Mulher feita e outros contos, Marilene Felinto usa a simplicidade cotidiana para mostrar ao leitor que a complexidade da vida está ligada de modo íntimo ao ordinário. A certa altura, uma senhora se surpreende ao ser q...
Reading the Family Dance
The development in recent years of the intersections between the family and literary study continues to emerge as one of the most productive and illuminating arenas of contemporary critique. In addition to addressing the family dynamic through which a given literary character develops a fully realized sense of self, family systems therapy allows readers to examine the patterns by which characters function in their larger intimate systems, whether those systems be social, institutional, or even global. As the intellectual foundation for the forms of therapy practiced by the majority of contemporary American and European psychotherapists, the study of family systems theory and its intersections with literary works affords readers with an illuminating glimpse into the terminology and processes involved in this dynamic form of critique. Perhaps most significantly, family systems therapy allows critics to consider the distinctly social interactions that characterise our pathways to interpersonal development and selfhood. John V. Knapp is Professor of English, with a joint appointment in modern literature and in teacher education, at Northern Illinois University. Kenneth Womack is Assist
Bitita's Diary: The Autobiography of Carolina Maria de Jesus
Carolina Maria de Jesus (1914-1977), nicknamed Bitita, was a destitute black Brazilian woman born in the rural interior who migrated to the industrial city of Sao Paulo. This is her autobiography, which includes details about her experiences of race relations and sexual intimidation.
Cannibal Democracy
Zita Nunes argues that the prevailing narratives of identity formation throughout the Americas share a dependence on metaphors of incorporation and, often, of cannibalism. From the position of the incorporating body, the construction of a national and racial identity through a process of assimilation presupposes a remainder, a residue. Nunes addresses works by writers and artists who explore what is left behind in the formation of national identities and speak to the limits of the contemporary discourse of democracy. Cannibal Democracy tracks its central metaphor’s circulation through the work of writers such as Mrio de Andrade, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Toni Morrison and journalists of the bl...
As mulheres de Tijucopapo
"Vou ter que ver por que minha mãe nasceu lá em Tijucopapo. E, caso haja uma guerra, a culpa é dela." A potência da linguagem da escritora e tradutora Marilene Felinto se mostra mais atual do que nunca. Romance emblemático da autora, As mulheres de Tijucopapo ganha nova edição, com prefácio inédito da escritora Beatriz Bracher, posfácio da pesquisadora Leila Lehnen e fortuna crítica com ensaios e resenhas de Ana Cristina Cesar, João Camillo Penna, José Miguel Wisnik, Marilena Chaui e Viviana Bosi. Escrito em 1982, quando a autora tinha 22 anos, o livro narra a viagem de retorno da narradora Rísia a Tijucopapo, localidade fictícia onde sua mãe nasceu, que evoca a história rea...
The Ties that Bind
The Ties That Bind comprises the first collection of critical essays that explore the family system in Spanish and Latin American culture. This thought-provoking volume addresses the intersection of language, narrative structure, social reality, and family dynamics through examples from a diverse range of literary works, including Cervantes' Don Quijote, Reinaldo Arenas' Celestino antes del alba, and the Chicano film My Family/Mi Familia. Issues of feminism, gender and sexuality, abuse, trauma, and communication take the forefront in this ground-breaking book, which takes psychological literary criticism a step beyond traditional psychoanalytical approaches.
Sinfonia de Contos de Infância
A escritora Marilene Felinto, autora do premiado romance As Mulheres de Tijucopapo, lança agora seus contos com temática de infância. Reunidos neste Sinfonia de Contos de Infância, a maioria é de histórias inéditas. Narrativas sensíveis ao universo infantil tanto no que este tem de fantasia e brinquedo, os contos retratam também o assombro da criança diante do mundo adulto que não a percebe. Textos brilhantes na sua força literária, agradam crianças e adultos.
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The Columbia Guide to the Latin American Novel Since 1945
In this expertly crafted, richly detailed guide, Raymond Leslie Williams explores the cultural, political, and historical events that have shaped the Latin American and Caribbean novel since the end of World War II. In addition to works originally composed in English, Williams covers novels written in Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch, and Haitian Creole, and traces the profound influence of modernization, revolution, and democratization on the writing of this era. Beginning in 1945, Williams introduces major trends by region, including the Caribbean and U.S. Latino novel, the Mexican and Central American novel, the Andean novel, the Southern Cone novel, and the novel of Brazil. He discusse...
