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Informationen zum Autor Edited by Carmen Nava and Ludwig Lauerhass Jr. Klappentext This innovative volume traces Brazil's singular character, exploring both the remarkable richness and cohesion of the national culture and the contradictions and tensions that have developed over time. What shared experiences and memories give its citizens their sense of being Brazilian? What metaphors and stereotypes of identity have emerged? The contributors-a multidisciplinary group of U.S. and Brazilian scholars-offer a fresh look at questions that have been asked since the early nineteenth century and that continue to drive nationalist discourse today. Their chapters explore Brazilian identity through the interlinked concepts of texts, facts, sights, and sounds, offering a compelling analysis of how nationalism functions as a social, political, and cultural construction in Latin America. Zusammenfassung Traces Brazil's singular character! exploring both the remarkable richness and cohesion of the national culture! and the contradictions and tensions that have developed over time. This book includes several chapters that explore Brazilian identity through the interlinked concepts of texts! facts! sights! and sounds. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: A Four-Part Canon for the Analysis of Brazilian National IdentityPart I: TextsChapter 1: Machado de Assis and the Question of Brazilian National IdentityChapter 2: Euclides de Cunha's View of Brazil's Fractured IdentityChapter 3: Gilberto Freyre's Concept of Culture in The Masters and the SlavesPart II: FactsChapter 4: Brasiliana: Published Works and CollectionsChapter 5: Forging Future Citizens in Brazilian Public Schools, 1937-1945Part III: SightsChapter 6: The Visual Imaging of Brazilian IdentityChapter 7: Cinematic Images of the Brazilian IndianChapter 8: The Emperor and His Pedestal: Pedro I and Disputed Views of the Brazilian Nation, 1860-1900Part IV: SoundsChapter 9: Two Musical Representations of Brazil: Carlos Gomes and Heitor Villa LobosTimeline of Brazilian History...
