Imagining Brazil: : Leonardo Avritzer: Lexington Books

Imagining Brazil

Description

Imagining Brazil provides a comprehensive and multifaceted picture of Brazil in the age of globalization. Privileging diversity in relation to the authors as well as the manner in which Brazil is perceived, Jessé Souza and Valter Sinder have assembled historians, political scientists, sociologists, literary critics, and scholars of culture in an attempt to understand a complex society in all its richness and diversity. Rising from one of the world's poorest societies in the 1930s to the eighth largest world economy in the 1980s, Brazil is used as an example of globalization's impact on peripheral societies, exploring in new contexts the serious social problems that have always characterized this society. Imagining Brazil explores the connections between society and politics and culture and literature, creating an encompassing volume of interest to scholars of Latin American studies as well as those interested in how globalization impacts the varied aspects of a country.

Chapter 1 Introduction
Part 2 Society and Politics
Chapter 3 The Singularity of the Peripheral Social Inequality
Chapter 4 Culture, Democracy, and the Formation of the Public Sphere in Brazil
Chapter 5 Between Under-Integration and Over-Integration: Not Taking Citizenship Seriously
Chapter 6 The Paraguayan War: A Constitutional, Political, and Economic Turning Point for Brazil
Chapter 7 Max Weber and the Interpretation of Brazil
Chapter 8 Racial Democracy
Chapter 9 From Bahia to Brazil: The UNESCO Race Relations Project
Part 10 Literature and Culture
Chapter 11 Brazilian Cultural Critique: Possible Scenarios of a Pending Debate
Chapter 12 The Republic and the Suburb: Literary Imagination and Modernity in Brazil
Chapter 13 Identity is the Other
Chapter 14 The Relevance of Machado de Assis
Chapter 15 From Bossa Nova to Tropicália: Restraint and Excess in Popular Music
Chapter 16 Elective Infidelities: Intellectuals and Politics
Chapter 17 An Amphibious Literature

Product details

Published	16 Feb 2007
Format	Paperback
Edition	1st
Extent	318
ISBN	9780739110140
Imprint	Lexington Books
Dimensions	231 x 150 mm
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Anthology Editor

Jessé Souza

Anthology Editor

Valter Sinder

Contributor

Leonardo Avritzer

Contributor

Helena Bomeny

Contributor

Dain Borges

Contributor

Antonio Sérgio Alfredo Guimarães

Contributor

Marcos Chor Maio

Contributor

Santuza Cambraia Naves

Contributor

Marcelo Neves

Contributor

Paulo Jorge Ribeiro

Contributor

Silviano Santiago

Contributor

João Trajano Sento-Sé

Contributor

Thomas Skidmore

Contributor

Heloisa Maria Murgel Starling

Contributor

Luiz Werneck Vianna

. . . offers a wide-ranging and inclusive multidisciplinary analysis of Brazil's complex social and political identity.

Perspectives on Politics
This collection brings together a wide array of (mostly) Brazilian authors, from various disciplines, who focus on different aspects and moments of Brazilian society, polity, culture and literature....The authors make clear at the outset that their intent was to provide a 'comprehensive and multifaceted picture', and to privilege 'diversity' both in terms of authorship as well as topic coverage, an aim that is broadly acheived.

Latin American Studies
Like most edited collections, the fourteen essays in this volume are of varying quality and depth, although most of them are very fine contributions. especially to our understanding of intellectuals and ideas in Brazil in the twentieth century. The diverse disciplines of contributors also reflects the breadth and quality of scholars working on Brazil today in Brazilian academia.

Luso-Brazilian Review