Kulturconfusão
Subtitle: on German-Brazilian Interculturalities
By: edited by Anke Finger, Gabi Kathöfer and Christopher Larkosh
Series: Interdisciplinary German cultural studies -- volume 19
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Berlin; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
ISBN-13: 9783110408096
Subjects: Relations; Intercultural communication
Description: This collection examines cultural interactions between Germany and Brazil from the Early Modern period to the present day. The contributors represent various academic disciplines, including German Studies, Luso-Afro-Brazilian Studies, Cultural Studies, Linguistics, Art History and the social sciences. Their essays cover a wide range of works and media and offer a much-needed rethinking of the intercultural paradigm for the humanities --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Kulturconfusão: on German-Brazilian hybridities and intercultural hermeneutics / Anke Finger, Gabi Kathöfer, and Christopher Larkosh; title: Indigenous projections / Ute Ritz-Deutch; title: Germans and Indians in Brazil: the transatlantic construction of ethnic identity in the discourse of Indian protection / Fernando Clara; title: "Paradise with black angels": Brazil in eighteenth-century Germany / Gabi Kathöfer; title: Devouring culture: cannibalism, national identity, and nineteenth-century German emigration to Brazil / Thomas O. Beebee; title: Cultural entanglements and ethnographic refractions: Theodor Koch-Grünberg in Brazil; title: Everyday cultures and media / Ricarda Musser; title: German-Brazilian cultural exchange in the times of the dictatorship: the cultural magazine Intercâmbio / Andrew W. Hurley; title: From documentation to dialogue: on bringing Brazilian popular music and jazz to West Germany / Ulrike Schröder; title: Conceptual metaphors: a culture-specific construction of meaning using the "life is war" metaphor in Brazilian and German rap lyrics / Wolfgang Fuhrmann; title: Transnational film history?: um cinema teuto-brasileiro; title: Literary fusions and interstitial spaces / Horst Nitschack; title: Tropical subjectivity and the European tradition of Bildung:; title: Macunaíma, a hero without a character, by Mário de Andrade / Marlen Eckl; title: "Everywhere paradise is lost": the Brazilian national myth in the works of refugees of Nazism / Christopher Larkosh; title: Submarine: Germany resurfacing in the contemporary Brazilian novel / Edith Wolfe; title: "Exiled from the world": German Expressionism, Brazilian Modernism and the interstitial primitivism of Lasar Segall / Rainer Guldin; title: Between São Paulo and Stuttgart: multilingualism, translation, and interculturality in Haroldo de Campos's and Vilém Flusser's work.