Forms of Myth in Contemporary Brazilian Fiction
Title | Forms of Myth in Contemporary Brazilian Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | Daphne Patai |
Publisher | |
Pages | 400 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | Brazilian fiction |
ISBN |
Forms of Myth in Contemporary Brazilian Fiction
Title | Forms of Myth in Contemporary Brazilian Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | Daphne Patai |
Publisher | |
Pages | 450 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | Brazilian fiction |
ISBN |
Myth and Ideology in Contemporary Brazilian Fiction
Title | Myth and Ideology in Contemporary Brazilian Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | Daphne Patai |
Publisher | Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | Brazilian fiction |
ISBN | 9780838631324 |
Analyzing the thematic and formal characteristics of six contemporary Brazilian novels, this study explores the use of myth and its ideological implications. The writers examined are Maria Alice Barroso, Clarice Lispector, Jorge Amado, Carlos Heitor Cony, Adonias Filho, and Autran Dourado.
Myth and Brazilian Literature
Title | Myth and Brazilian Literature PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 159 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
New World Myth
Title | New World Myth PDF eBook |
Author | Marie Vautier |
Publisher | McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Pages | 364 |
Release | 1998-01-06 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0773566880 |
There is an emphasis on de-constructing, de-centring, de-stabilizing, and especially de-mythologizing in the study that illustrates New World myth narrators questioning the past in the present and carrying out their original investigations of myth, place, and identity. Underlining the fact that political realities are encoded in the language and narrative of the works, Vautier argues that the reworkings of literary, religious, and historical myths and political ideologies in these novels are grounded in their shared situation of being in and of the New World.
Pop Culture Latin America!
Title | Pop Culture Latin America! PDF eBook |
Author | Lisa Shaw |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 417 |
Release | 2005-01-14 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1851095098 |
A survey of contemporary Latin American popular culture, covering topics that range from music and film to popular festivals and fashion. Like no other volume of its kind, Pop Culture Latin America! captures the breadth and vitality of pop culture in Central and South America and the Caribbean, exploring both familiar and lesser-known aspects of its unique melange of art, entertainment, spirituality, and celebrations. Written by contributors who are scholars and specialists in the cultures and languages of Latin America, the book focuses on the historical, social, and political forces that have shaped Latino culture since 1945, particularly in the last two decades. Separate chapters cover music, popular cinema, mass media, theater and performance, literature, cultural heroes, religions and festivals, social movements and politics, the visual arts and architecture, sports and leisure, travel and tourism, and language.
Brazilian Science Fiction
Title | Brazilian Science Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | M. Elizabeth Ginway |
Publisher | Bucknell University Press |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780838755648 |
Science fiction, because of its links to science and technology, is the consummate literary vehicle for examining the perception and cultural impact of the modernization process in Brazil. Because of the centrality of the role played by the military dictatorship (1964-85) in imposing industrialization and economic development policies on Brazil, this book examines the genre in the periods before, during, and after the dictatorship, encompassing the years 1960-2000. The analysis shows that a reading of Brazilian science fiction based on its use of paradigms of Anglo-American science fiction and myths of Brazilian nationhood provides a unique look into Brazil's modern metamorphosis as it finds itself on the periphery of the globalized world.