Imagining Brazil
By: edited by Jessé Souza and Valter Sinder.
Contributors: Souza, Jessé.; Sinder, Valter.
Series: Global encounters
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
Subjects: Brazil -- Civilization -- 20th century.; Brazil -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Part 1. Society and politics. The singularity of the peripheral social inequality / Jessé Souza; title: Culture, democracy and the formation of the public space in Brazil / Leonardo Avritzer; title: Between under-integration and over-integration : not taking citizenship seriously / Marcelo Neves; title: The Paraguayan War : a constitutional, political, and economic turning point for Brazil / Thomas E. Skidmore; title: Max Weber and the interpretation of Brazil / Luiz Werneck Vianna; title: Racial democracy / Antonio Sérgio Alfredo Guimarães; title: From Bahia to Brazil : the UNESCO Race Relations Project / Marcos Chor Maio. Part 2. Literature and culture. Brazilian cultural critique : possible scenarios of a pending debate / Valter Sinder and Paulo Jorge Ribeiro; title: The republic and the suburb : literary imagination and modernity in Brazil / Heloisa Maria Murgel Starling; title: Identity is the other / João Trajano Sento-Sé; title: The relevance of Machado de Assis / Dain Borges; title: From bossa nova to tropicália : restraint and excess in popular music / Santuza Cambraia Naves; title: Elective infidelities : intellectuals and politics / Helena Bomeny; title: An amphibious literature / Silviano Santiago.