Citizenship and Crisis in Contemporary Brazilian Literature

Citizenship and Crisis in Contemporary Brazilian Literature
Author: L. Lehnen
Publsiher: Springer
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2013-04-10
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781137313362

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Considering how literary texts address the transformations that Brazil has undergone since its 1985 transition to democracy, this study proposes that Brazilian contemporary literature is informed by the struggle for social, civil, and cultural rights and that literary production has created spaces for historically disenfranchised communities.

Citizenship and Crisis in Contemporary Brazilian Literature

Citizenship and Crisis in Contemporary Brazilian Literature
Author: L. Lehnen
Publsiher: Springer
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2013-04-10
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781137313362

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Considering how literary texts address the transformations that Brazil has undergone since its 1985 transition to democracy, this study proposes that Brazilian contemporary literature is informed by the struggle for social, civil, and cultural rights and that literary production has created spaces for historically disenfranchised communities.

Participatory Citizenship and Crisis in Contemporary Brazil

Participatory Citizenship and Crisis in Contemporary Brazil
Author: Valesca Lima
Publsiher: Springer
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2019-07-19
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9783030191207

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​This book discusses the issues of citizen rights, governance and political crisis in Brazil. The project has a focus on “citizenship in times of crisis,” i.e., seeking to understand how citizenship rights have changed since the Brazilian political and economic crisis that started in 2014. Building on theories of citizenship and governance, the author examines policy-based evidence on the retractions of participatory rights, which are consequence of a stagnant economic scenario and the re-organization of conservative sectors. This work will appeal to scholarly audiences interested in citizenship, Brazilian politics, and Latin American policy and governance.

Literature and Ethics in Contemporary Brazil

Literature and Ethics in Contemporary Brazil
Author: Vinicius Mariano De Carvalho,Nicola Gavioli
Publsiher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2017-02-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781315386379

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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction: On Behalf of the "Here and Now"--1 2013 Frankfurt Book Fair's Speech -- 2 Brazilian Contemporary Fiction and the Representation of Poverty -- 3 Memorials of Words: The Victim in Brazilian Literature -- 4 Deciphered Brazil and Enigma Brazil: Notes on Social Exclusion and Violence in Contemporary Brazilian Literature -- 5 Journeys of Resistance in Afro-Brazilian Literature: The Case of Conceição Evaristo -- 6 Growing Up to Human Rights: The Bildungsroman and the Discourse of Human Rights in Um defeito de cor -- 7 Narrating other Perspectives, Re-Drawing History: The Protagonization of Afro-Brazilians in the Work of Graphic Novelist Marcelo d'Salete -- 8 Neither Here nor There: Unsettling Encounters in Paulo Scott's Habitante irreal -- 9 Can't You Hear My Call?: The Guarani Kaiowá Letter and the Right to Land and Literature in Brazil -- 10 In Search of a New Invisibility -- 11 Revisions of Masculinity under Dictatorship: Gabeira, Caio and Noll -- 12 Testimonial Performance: Fictions of the Real in Contemporary Art -- 13 Lyrical Guides to the Peripheries of Rio de Janeiro: Two Historical Moments -- 14 Nicolas Behr's Futuristic braxília and the Critical Reinvention of Brasiliensidade (brasília-em-cidade) -- 15 The Night Explodes in the Cities: Three Hypotheses about Vinagre: uma antologia de poetas neobarracos -- List of Contributors -- Index

The Palgrave Handbook of Literature and the City

The Palgrave Handbook of Literature and the City
Author: Jeremy Tambling
Publsiher: Springer
Total Pages: 863
Release: 2017-02-17
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781137549112

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This book is about the impact of literature upon cities world-wide, and cities upon literature. It examines why the city matters so much to contemporary critical theory, and why it has inspired so many forms of writing which have attempted to deal with its challenges to think about it and to represent it. Gathering together 40 contributors who look at different modes of writing and film-making in throughout the world, this handbook asks how the modern city has engendered so much theoretical consideration, and looks at cities and their literature from China to Peru, from New York to Paris, from London to Kinshasa. It looks at some of the ways in which modern cities – whether capitals, shanty-towns, industrial or ‘rust-belt’ – have forced themselves on people’s ways of thinking and writing.

The Generation of 72

The Generation of  72
Author: Brantley Nicholson,Sophia A. McClennen
Publsiher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2014-03-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780985371593

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Caught between the well-worn grooves the Boom and the Gen-X have left on the Latin American literary canon, the writing intellectuals that comprise what the Generation of '72 have not enjoyed the same editorial acclaim or philological framing as the literary cohorts that bookend them. In sociopolitical terms, they neither fed into the Cold War-inflected literary prizes that sustained the Boom nor the surge in cultural capital in Latin American cities from which the writers associated with the Crack and McOndo have tended to write. This book seeks to approach the Generation of '72 from the perspective of cosmopolitanism and global citizenship, a theoretical framework that lends a fresh and critical architecture to the unique experiences and formal responses of a group of intellectuals that wrote alongside globalization's first wave.

Crisis Cultures

Crisis Cultures
Author: Brian Whitener
Publsiher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2019-03-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780822986850

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Drawing on a mix of political, economic, literary, and filmic texts, Crisis Cultures challenges current cultural histories of the neoliberal period by arguing that financialization, and not just neoliberalism, has been at the center of the dramatic transformations in Latin American societies in the last thirty years. Starting from political economic figures such as crisis, hyperinflation, credit, and circulation and exemplary cultural texts, Whitener traces the interactions between culture, finance, surplus populations, and racialized state violence after 1982 in Mexico and Brazil. Crisis Cultures makes sense of the emergence of new forms of exploitation and terrifying police and militarized violence by tracking the cultural and discursive forms, including real abstraction and the favela and immaterial cadavers and voided collectivities, that have emerged in the complicated aftermath of the long downturn and global turn to finance.

Reconfiguring Citizenship and National Identity in the North American Literary Imagination

Reconfiguring Citizenship and National Identity in the North American Literary Imagination
Author: Kathy-Ann Tan
Publsiher: Wayne State University Press
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2015-12-07
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780814341414

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Literature has always played a central role in creating and disseminating culturally specific notions of citizenship, nationhood, and belonging. In Reconfiguring Citizenship and National Identity in the North American Literary Imagination, author Kathy-Ann Tan investigates metaphors, configurations, parameters, and articulations of U.S. and Canadian citizenship that are enacted, renegotiated, and revised in modern literary texts, particularly during periods of emergence and crisis. Tan brings together for the first time a selection of canonical and lesser-known U.S. and Canadian writings for critical consideration. She begins by exploring literary depiction of “willful” or “wayward” citizens and those with precarious bodies that are viewed as threatening, undesirable, unacceptable—including refugees and asylum seekers, undocumented migrants, deportees, and stateless people. She also considers the rights to citizenship and political membership claimed by queer bodies and an examination of "new" and alternative forms of citizenship, such as denizenship, urban citizenship, diasporic citizenship, and Indigenous citizenship. With case studies based on works by a diverse collection of authors—including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Djuna Barnes, Etel Adnan, Sarah Schulman, Walt Whitman, Gail Scott, and Philip Roth—Tan uncovers alternative forms of collectivity, community, and nation across a broad range of perspectives. In line with recent cross-disciplinary explorations in the field, Reconfiguring Citizenship and National Identity in the North American Literary Imagination shows citizenship as less of a fixed or static legal entity and more as a set of symbolic and cultural practices. Scholars of literary studies, cultural studies, and citizenship studies will be grateful for Tan’s illuminating study.