Imagining Brazil

Herausgeber: Sinder, Valter; Souza, Jessé

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Global Encounters: Studies in Comparative Political Theory
• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juni 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 671g
• ISBN-13: 9780739110133
• ISBN-10: 0739110136
• Artikelnr.: 21305834

Autorenporträt

Edited by Jessé Souza and Valter Sinder - Contributions by Leonardo Avritzer; Helena Bomeny; Dain Borges; Antonio Sérgio Alfredo Guimarães; Marcos Chor Maio; Santuza Cambraia Naves; Marcelo Neves; Paulo Jorge Ribeiro; Silviano Santiago; João Trajano Sento

Inhaltsangabe

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