Brazil Imagined 1500 to the Present

Name: Brazil Imagined 1500 to the Present
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ISBN: 9780292718579

ISBN-10: 0292718578

ISBN-13: 9780292718579

Edition: 2008

Authors: Darlene J. Sadlier

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The first comprehensive cultural history of Brazil to be written in English, Brazil Imagined: 1500 to the Present captures the role of the artistic imaginary in shaping Brazil's national identity. Analyzing representations of Brazil throughout the world, this ambitious survey demonstrates the ways in which life in one of the world's largest nations has been conceived and revised in visual arts, literature, film, and a variety of other media. Beginning with the first explorations of Brazil by the Portuguese, Darlene J. Sadlier incorporates extensive source material, including paintings, historiographies, letters, poetry, novels, architecture, and mass media to trace the nation's shifting…

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List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 10/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 408
Size: 5.95" wide x 8.98" long x 0.97" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

DARLENE J. SADLIER, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Adjunct Professor of Women's Studies at Indiana University, is author of The Question of How: Women Writers and New Portuguese Literature.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Edenic and Cannibal Encounters



Paradise (Re)Gained: Dutch Representations of Brazil and Nativist Imagery



Regal Brazil



The Foundations of a National Literary Imaginary



Modernist Brazil



Good Neighbor Brazil



From Revolutionary to Dystopian Brazil on Screen


Epilogue: Land of the Future


Notes


Bibliography


Index