Living (Il)legalities in Brazil (eBook, ePUB)

Practices, Narratives and Institutions in a Country on the Edge
Redaktion: Brandellero, Sara; Wink, Georg; Pardue, Derek

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Reflecting on some of Brazil's foremost challenges, this book considers the porous relationship between legality and illegality in a country that presages political and societal changes in hitherto unprecedented dimensions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000057683
• Artikelnr.: 59221644

Autorenporträt

Sara Brandellero is Assistant Professor in Brazilian Literature and Culture at Leiden University, the Netherlands, where she is co-Chair of the Latin American Studies programmes. Her research focuses on Brazilian literature and film, and Lusophone cultures more broadly. Her publications include the book On a Knife-Edge: The Poetry of João Cabral de Melo Neto (2011) and the edited volume The Brazilian Road Movie (2013). Derek Pardue, PhD, is Associate Professor of Brazilian Studies within the Global Studies Department at Aarhus University in Denmark. His scholarship focuses on issues of migration, and urbanism throughout the Black Atlantic, specifically the Luso-African world of Brazil, Portugal and Cape Verde. Georg Wink, PhD, is Associate Professor of Brazilian Studies and Director of the Centre for Latin American Studies at the University of Copenhagen. His research focuses on contemporary Brazilian society, politics and culture with special emphasis on the rise of the "new right" in Brazil.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: living (il)legalities in Brazil
PART I Producing (il)legalities
1 Borders of (il)legality
2 The government of street vending: formalizations of informality and use
of force
3 Migrant refugee spatialities lived and legislated in São Paulo
4 Jeitinho revisited
5 Political sexology
PART II Representing (il)legalities
6 Drinking lime juice to throw up, and the right way to beat an old lady:
policing punk in late dictatorial Brazil (1978-1982)
7 Illegal realities in the lyrics by Racionais MC's
8 Kafka and lawfare in Brazil: Maria Ramos's The Trial
9 Night trespassing in contemporary Brazilian cinema: unveiling
(il)legalities in Neighbouring Sounds
10 Something to declare: illegal immigrants in contemporary Brazilian
literature
11 Painting racism: protest art by contemporary Indigenous artists