Racism and Discourse in Latin America
Racism and Discourse in Latin America

Author: Teun A. Van Dijk

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2009-10-26

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 073914278X

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Racism and Discourse in Latin America investigates how public discourse is involved in the daily reproduction of racism in Latin America. The essays examine political discourse, mass media discourse, textbooks and other forms of text, and talk by the white symbolic elites, looking at the ways these discourses express and confirm prejudices against indigenous people and against people from African descent. The essays show that ethnic and racial inequality in Latin America continue to exacerbate the chasm between the rich and the poor, despite formal progress in the rights of minorities during the last decades. Teun A. van Dijk brings together a multidisciplinary team of linguists and social scientists from eight Latin American countries (Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, and Peru), creating the first work in English that provides comprehensive insight into discursive racism across Latin America.

Envisioning Brazil
Envisioning Brazil

Author: Marshall C. Eakin

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres

Published: 2005-09-16

Total Pages: 532

ISBN-13: 0299207730

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Envisioning Brazil is a comprehensive and sweeping assessment of Brazilian studies in the United States. Focusing on synthesis and interpretation and assessing trends and perspectives, this reference work provides an overview of the writings on Brazil by United States scholars since 1945. "The Development of Brazilian Studies in the United States," provides an overview of Brazilian Studies in North American universities. "Perspectives from the Disciplines" surveys the various academic disciplines that cultivate Brazilian studies: Portuguese language studies, Brazilian literature, art, music, history, anthropology, Amazonian ethnology, economics, politics, and sociology. "Counterpoints: Brazilian Studies in Britain and France" places the contributions of U.S. scholars in an international perspective. "Bibliographic and Reference Sources" offers a chronology of key publications, an essay on the impact of the digital age on Brazilian sources, and a selective bibliography.

Afro-Brazilians
Afro-Brazilians

Author: Niyi Afolabi

Publisher: University Rochester Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 446

ISBN-13: 1580462626

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An interdisciplinary study on the myth of racial democracy in Brazil through the prism of producers of Afro-Brazilian culture.

Machado de Assis
Machado de Assis

Author: G. Reginald Daniel

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 0271052465

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"Examines how racial identity and race relations are expressed in the writings of Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908), Brazil's foremost author of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries"--Provided by publisher.

Brazilian Literature as World Literature
Brazilian Literature as World Literature

Author: Eduardo F. Coutinho

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2018-02-22

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 1501323288

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Brazilian Literature as World Literature is not only an introduction to Brazilian literature but also a study of the connections between Brazil's literary production and that of the rest of the world, particularly European and North American literatures. It highlights the tension that has always existed in Brazilian literature between the imitation of European models and forms and a yearning for a tradition of its own, as well as the attempts by modernist writers to propose possible solutions, such as aesthetic cannibalism, to overcome this tension.

Black Women in Brazil in Slavery and Post-Emancipation
Black Women in Brazil in Slavery and Post-Emancipation

Author: Giovana Xavier

Publisher: Diasporic Africa Press

Published: 2017-08-12

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1937306550

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This collection of essays brings together leading experts on the history of Black women in Brazil and newly expands what we know about the subject. The essays take us through cities, plantations, and mining areas from the north to the south and across the eighteenth, nineteenth, and first decades of the twentieth century. Grounded in original research that draws from diverse sources and favors biographies, the book offers a broad and fascinating picture of the experiences of African women—those born in Africa and in Brazil, those captive and those emancipated—the first agents of the emancipated community of Africans, and their descendants in the diaspora.

Exotic Nations
Exotic Nations

Author: Renata Wasserman

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2018-03-15

Total Pages: 379

ISBN-13: 1501726064

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In this highly original and critically informed book, Renata R. Mautner Wasserman looks at how, during the first decades following political independence, writers in the United States and Brazil assimilated and subverted European images of an "exotic" New World to create new literatures that asserted cultural independence and defined national identity. Exotic Nations demonstrates that the language of exoticism thus became part of the New World’s interpretation of its own history and natural environment.

The Author as Plagiarist
The Author as Plagiarist

Author: João Cezar de Castro Rocha

Publisher: Tagus Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 682

ISBN-13:

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An in-depth look at how Machado de Assis affirms his uniqueness through the role of a reflective reader who eventually becomes a self-reflective author, whose text is primarily the written memory of his private library