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Brazil under Construction: Fiction and Public Works: New Directions in Latino American Cultures

Autor S. Beal
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 20 sep 2013
Brazil under Construction tracks how Brazil's major public works projects and the fiction surrounding them mark a twofold construction of the nation: the functional construction of the country's public infrastructure and the symbolic construction of nationhood.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781137322470
ISBN-10: 1137322470
Pagini: 198
Ilustrații: XII, 198 p. 7 illus.
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Ediția:2013
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan US
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Seria New Directions in Latino American Cultures

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

1. An Introduction to the Fiction of Public Works 2. Conquering the Dark: Literature, Lighting, and Public Space in Rio de Janeiro in the Early 1900s 3. The Spectacle of Light: A Public Works Company in Southeastern Brazil (1906–71) 4. Brasília: The Real and Promised City in 1960s Brazilian Literature 5. Fiction and Massive Public Works during the Brazilian Military Regime (1964–85) 6. São Paulo's Failed Public Works in Ferréz's Capão Pecado and Luiz Ruffato's Eles eram muitos cavalos Epilogue

Recenzii

"A brilliant contribution to a fascinating emergent field: the imagination of infrastructure. Sophia Beal helps restore the strangeness to those enormous public works on which everyday life depends but that seem too big for the individual consumer to take in. This is 'material culture' both with gusto and with geopolitical vision. Students and teachers across the disciplines and around the globe will be delighted and inspired by it." - Bruce Robbins, Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Department of English & Comparative Literature, Columbia University, USA
"Brazil under Construction is an original and exciting reading of Brazilian literature through the lens of how notions of modernization intersect with the development of the country's urban infrastructure. Sophia Beal examines how authors have discussed transportation, electricity, sewage, Brasília, bridges, and traffic congestion to examine the ways in which intellectuals and writers have understood progress and modernity and their effects on the physical transformations of the landscape. This eloquently written work presents a lively sweep of diverse literary representations of Brazil's modernization projects from electric streetcars and street lamps to the new capital of Brasília; the majestic bridge spanning the harbor of Rio de Janeiro; and the chaos, disorder, and traffic jams that symbolize the industrial powerhouse of São Paulo." - James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History andCulture, Brown University, USA

Notă biografică

Sophia Beal is an is an assistant professor in Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies at the University of Minnesota.