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Informationen zum Autor Vinicius Mariano de Carvalho is Lecturer at King's Brazil Institute at King's College London, UK. Nicola Gavioli is Assistant Professor of Portuguese at Florida International University, USA. Klappentext Illuminating the relevance of literature as a catalyst for rethinking Brazil, this book offers a resistance to the official discourses that have worked to conceal social tensions, injustices, and secular inequities in Brazilian society. Zusammenfassung Illuminating the relevance of literature as a catalyst for rethinking Brazil, this book offers a resistance to the official discourses that have worked to conceal social tensions, injustices, and secular inequities in Brazilian society. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents List of Figures Acknowledgements Contributors Foreword DOMINIC RAINSFORD Introduction VINICIUS MARIANO DE CARVALHO and NICOLA GAVIOLI 1. 2013 Frankfurt Book Fair's Speech LUIZ RUFFATO 2. Brazilian Contemporary Fiction and the Representation of Poverty REGINA DALCASTAGNÈ 3. Memorials of Words: The Victim in Brazilian Literature ROBERTO VECCHI 4. Deciphered Brazil and Enigma Brazil: Notes on Social Exclusion and Violence in Contemporary Brazilian Literature EDIMILSON DE ALMEIDA PEREIRA 5. Journeys of Resistance in Afro-Brazilian Literature: the Case of Conceição Evaristo SARA BRANDELLERO 6. Growing Up to Human Rights: The Bildungsroman and the Discourse of Human Rights in Um defeito de cor LEILA LEHNEN 7. Narrating other Perspectives, Re-drawing History. The Protagonization of Afro-Brazilians in the Work of Graphic Novelist Marcelo d'Salete JASMIN WROBEL 8. Neither Here nor There: Unsettling Encounters in Paulo Scott's Habitante Irreal CLAIRE WILLIAMS 9. Can't You Hear my Call? The Guarani Kaiowá Letter and the Right to Land and Literature in Brazil MARÍLIA LIBRANDI-ROCHA 10. In Search of a New Invisibilty DENILSON LOPES 11. Revisions of Masculinity under Dictatorship: Gabeira, Caio and Noll IDELBER AVELAR 12. Testimonial Performance: Fictions of the Real in Contemporary Art MÁRCIO SELIGMANN-SILVA 13. Lyrical Guides to the Peripheries of Rio de Janeiro: Two Historical Moments FELIPE BOTELHO CORRÊA 14. Nicolas Behr's Futuristic braxília and the Critical Reinvention of Brasiliensidade ( brasília-em-cidade ) STEVEN F. BUTTERMAN 15. The Night Explodes in the Cities: Three Hypotheses about Vinagre: uma antologia de poetas neobarracos GUSTAVO SILVEIRA RIBEIRO ...
