Mark J. Curran

Diary of a North American Researcher in Brazil Iii (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Diary of a North American Researcher in Brazil III is the last in the series Stories I Told My Students. It is the continuation of the authors love affair and odyssey in Brazil, this time from 1988 to 2005. The volume brings to the present moments lived in Brazil and is written much more in the framework of a travel diary in Brazil. Short vignettes about people and places flavor the book. There is emphasis on academic conferences with many Brazilian Stories, the publication of works in Brazil, and more important, times shared with cordel poets, professors and researchers of Brazilian literature, folklore and popular literature in verse. Something new in this final phase of research, writing and professional life was the time spent in the city of So Paulo, at first glance an unlikely place for a student of folklore. A special moment was the participation in a unique event: 100 Years of Cordel sponsored by the SESC-POMPEIA in 2001 in that city. Others were with cordel poets and poet-singers in the Northeastern Cultural Center in So Paulo, and with Srgio Miceli of the University of So Paulo Press and Plnio Martins of Ateli Press, dealing with the publication of Currans final research efforts in Brazil. And lastly the book recalls fondly the time spent with friends who were with me in moments of happiness but also of solitude and some loneliness. I dedicate the book to all of them: cordel poets, researchers, professors, writers, friends, and to the person who sustained me most, my wife Keah.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, D ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Trafford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781490777719
• Artikelnr.: 52583094

Autorenporträt

Mark J. Curran is a retired professor from Arizona State University where he worked from 1968 to 2011. He taught Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese Languages and their respective cultures on the Iberian Peninsula and in Latin America. His area of research was Brazilian "Popular Literature in Verse" ("A Literatura de Cordel") and its relation to Brazilian Literature and History. He has made more than twenty trips to Brazil for research, conferences, and book publishing as well as tourism. Curran has published some twenty-five articles in research journals and now fifteen books in Brazil, Spain and the United States on the "Literatura de Cordel" and Brazilian Culture. In retirement he has done seven books in the series "Stories I told My Students" - books on Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, Portugal and Spain, themes based on his teaching years at A.S.U. Two autobiographical books complete the list: "The Farm" and "Coming of Age with the Jesuits." His most recent activity was as "staff" for Lindblad Expeditions - National Geographic on the National Geographic Explorer from Ushuaia, Argentina, Brazil and on to Madeira Island.