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Fiction in French - Fiction in Soviet
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 464

Fiction in French - Fiction in Soviet

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Soldiers of the Pátria
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 636

Soldiers of the Pátria

This book provides an authoritative history of the Brazilian army from the army’s overthrow of the monarchy in 1889 to its support of the coup that established Brazil’s first civilian dictatorship in 1937. The period between these two events laid the political foundations of modern Brazil—a period in which the army served as the core institution of an expanding and modernizing Brazilian state. The book is based on detailed research in Brazilian, British, American, and French archives, and on numerous interviews with surviving military and civilian leaders. It also makes extensive use of hitherto unused internal army documents, as well as of private correspondence and diaries. It is thus able to shed new light on the army’s personnel and ethos, on its ties with civilian elites, on the consequences of military professionalization, and on how the army reinvented itself after the collapse of its command structure in the crisis of 1930—a reinvention that allowed the army to become the backbone of the post-1937 dictatorship of Getulio Vargas.

Machado de Assis
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 344

Machado de Assis

"Examines how racial identity and race relations are expressed in the writings of Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908), Brazil's foremost author of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries"--Provided by publisher.

Encyclopedia of Latin American Theater
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 547

Encyclopedia of Latin American Theater

Latin American culture has given birth to numerous dramatic works, though it has often been difficult to locate information about these plays and playwrights. This volume traces the history of Latin American theater, including the Nuyorican and Chicano theaters of the United States, and surveys its history from the pre-Columbian period to the present. Sections cover individual Latin American countries. Each section features alphabetically arranged entries for playwrights, independent theaters, and cultural movements. The volume begins with an overview of the development of theater in Latin America. Each of the country sections begins with an introductory survey and concludes with copious bibliographical information. The entries for playwrights provide factual information about the dramatist's life and works and place the author within the larger context of international literature. Each entry closes with a list of works by and about the playwright. A selected, general bibliography appears at the end of the volume.

Subject Catalog
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1020

Subject Catalog

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1982
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Vale of Tears
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 366

Vale of Tears

The massacre of Canudos In 1897 is a pivotal episode in Brazilian social history. Looking at the event through the eyes of the inhabitants, Levine challenges traditional interpretations and gives weight to the fact that most of the Canudenses were of mixed-raced descent and were thus perceived as opponents to progress and civilization. In 1897 Brazilian military forces destroyed the millenarian settlement of Canudos, murdering as many as 35,000 pious rural folk who had taken refuge in the remote northeast backlands of Brazil. Fictionalized in Mario Vargas Llosa's acclaimed novel, War at the End of the World, Canudos is a pivotal episode in Brazilian social history. When looked at through the...

Library of Congress Catalog
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1030

Library of Congress Catalog

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1974-10
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  • Publisher: Unknown

A cumulative list of works represented by Library of Congress printed cards.

Tentative Transgressions
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 270

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

National Union Catalog
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1032

National Union Catalog

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1980
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Includes entries for maps and atlases.

World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1344

World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-10-11
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  • Publisher: Routledge

An annotated world theatre bibliography documenting significant theatre materials published world wide since 1945, plus an index to key names throughout the six volumes of the series.