Del i serien Routledge Studies in Comparative Literature

Literature and Ethics in Contemporary Brazil

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

AvVinicius Mariano De Carvalho,Nicola Gavioli

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When Brazil was honored at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2013, the Brazilian author Luiz Ruffato opened the event with a provocative speech claiming that literature, through its pervasive depiction and discussion of ‘otherness,’ has the potential to provoke ethical transformation. This book uses Ruffato’s speech as a starting point for the discussion of contemporary Brazilian literature that stands in contrast to the repetition of social and cultural clichés. By illuminating the relevance of humanities and literature as a catalyst for rethinking Brazil, the book offers a resistance to the official discourses that have worked for so long to conceal social tensions, injustices, and secular inequities in Brazilian society. In doing so, it situates Brazilian literature away from the exotic and peripheral spectrum, and closer to a universal and more relevant ethical discussion for readers from all parts of the world. The volume brings together fresh contributions on both canonical contemporary authors such as Graciliano Ramos, Rubem Fonseca, and Dalton Trevisan, and traditionally silenced writing subjects such as Afro-Brazilian female authors. These essays deal with specific contemporary literary and social issues while engaging with historically constitutive phenomena in Brazil, including authoritarianism, violence, and the systematic violation of human rights. The exploration of diverse literary genres -- from novels to graphic novels, from poetry to crônicas -- and engagement with postcolonial studies, gender studies, queer studies, cultural studies, Brazilian studies, South American literature, and world literature carves new space for the emergence of original Brazilian thought.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2017-03-06
Mått152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt544 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieRoutledge Studies in Comparative Literature
Antal sidor290
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781138230316

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ContentsList of FiguresAcknowledgements ContributorsForeword DOMINIC RAINSFORD IntroductionVINICIUS MARIANO DE CARVALHO and NICOLA GAVIOLI1. 2013 Frankfurt Book Fair’s Speech LUIZ RUFFATO 2. Brazilian Contemporary Fiction and the Representation of PovertyREGINA DALCASTAGNÈ3. Memorials of Words: The Victim in Brazilian Literature ROBERTO VECCHI4. Deciphered Brazil and Enigma Brazil: Notes on Social Exclusion and Violence in Contemporary Brazilian LiteratureEDIMILSON DE ALMEIDA PEREIRA5. Journeys of Resistance in Afro-Brazilian Literature: the Case of Conceição EvaristoSARA BRANDELLERO6. Growing Up to Human Rights: The Bildungsroman and the Discourse of Human Rights in Um defeito de corLEILA LEHNEN7. Narrating other Perspectives, Re-drawing History. The Protagonization of Afro-Brazilians in the Work of Graphic Novelist Marcelo d’SaleteJASMIN WROBEL8. Neither Here nor There: Unsettling Encounters in Paulo Scott’s Habitante IrrealCLAIRE WILLIAMS9. Can’t You Hear my Call? The Guarani Kaiowá Letter and the Right to Land and Literature in Brazil MARÍLIA LIBRANDI-ROCHA10. In Search of a New InvisibiltyDENILSON LOPES11. Revisions of Masculinity under Dictatorship: Gabeira, Caio and Noll IDELBER AVELAR12. Testimonial Performance: Fictions of the Real in Contemporary ArtMÁRCIO SELIGMANN-SILVA13. Lyrical Guides to the Peripheries of Rio de Janeiro: Two Historical MomentsFELIPE BOTELHO CORRÊA14. Nicolas Behr’s Futuristic braxília and the Critical Reinvention of Brasiliensidade (brasília-em-cidade)STEVEN F. BUTTERMAN15. The Night Explodes in the Cities: Three Hypotheses about Vinagre: uma antologia de poetas neobarracosGUSTAVO SILVEIRA RIBEIRO