Graciliano Ramos And The Making Of Modern Brazil

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Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1783169869
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Graciliano Ramos and the Making of Modern Brazil written by and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Graciliano Ramos and the Making of Modern Brazil brings updated criticism in English on the work of the prominent Brazilian writer Graciliano Ramos (1892–1953), a key figure in understanding the making of modern Brazil. Building on existing literature, this book innovates through chapters that consider issues such as Ramos’s dialogue with literary tradition, his cultural legacy for contemporary writers, and his treatment of racial discrimination and gender inequality through the multifarious, provocative and enduringly fascinating characters he created. The volume also addresses the question of Ramos’s political involvement during the years of the Getulio Vargas government (1930–45), to revisit established readings of the author’s politics. Through close reading of individual works as well as comparative analyses, this volume takes readers into the complexities of modernisation in Brazil, and highlights the writer’s significance for our understanding of Brazil today.

Author : Graciliano Ramos
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292786018
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Barren Lives written by Graciliano Ramos and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2011-05-18 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A peasant family, driven by the drought, walks to exhaustion through an arid land. As they shelter at a deserted ranch, the drought is broken and they linger, tending cattle for the absentee ranch owner, until the onset of another drought forces them to move on, homeless wanderers again. Yet, like the desert plants that defeat all rigors of wind and weather, the family maintains its will to survive in the harsh and solitary land. Intimately acquainted with the region of which he writes and keenly appreciative of the character of its inhabitants, into whose minds he has penetrated as few before him, Graciliano Ramos depicts them in a style whose austerity well becomes the spareness of the subject, creating a gallery of figures that rank as classic in contemporary Brazilian literature.

Author : Edwin Murillo
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1837720010
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Latin America and Existentialism written by Edwin Murillo and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2023-06-15 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latin America and Existentialism is a preliminary intellectual history, prioritising literature and contextualising Latin American philosophical contributions from the 1860s to the late 1930s, decades that coincide with the canon’s foundational years. This study takes a Pan-American approach to move the critical focus away from the River Plate, a region that has received some critical attention. In doing so, it focuses on existentially-neglected writers such as Brazil’s Machado de Assis and Graciliano Ramos, José Asunción Silva from Colombia, Cuba’s Enrique Labrador Ruiz, and the Chilean María Luisa Bombal. Underappreciated Latin American philosophical voices and existentialism’s canonical perspectives allow the author to discuss the many problems concerning the experiencing ‘I’ of these authors, and to consider such existential themes as ethical vacuity, forlornness, the crisis of insufficiency, the conundrum of choice, and the enigma of authentic being. The concentration on Latin America’s existentially-hued interest in the human condition is an invitation to the reader to reconsider the peripheral status in the existentialism canon.

Author : Graciliano Ramos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780292748330
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Barren Lives written by Graciliano Ramos and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A peasant family, driven by the drought, walks to exhaustion through an arid land. As they shelter at a deserted ranch, the drought is broken and they linger, tending cattle for the absentee ranch owner, until the onset of another drought forces them to move on, homeless wanderers again. Yet, like the desert plants that defeat all rigors of wind and weather, the family maintains its will to survive in the harsh and solitary land. Intimately acquainted with the region of which he writes and keenly appreciative of the character of its inhabitants, into whose minds he has penetrated as few before him, Graciliano Ramos depicts them in a style whose austerity well becomes the spareness of the subject, creating a gallery of figures that rank as classic in contemporary Brazilian literature. -- Back cover.

Author : Fred P. Ellison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brazil's New Novel written by Fred P. Ellison and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Celso Lemos De Oliveira
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Graciliano Ramos written by Celso Lemos De Oliveira and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sara Brandellero
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000057682
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living (Il)legalities in Brazil written by Sara Brandellero and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. It brings together work by established scholars from Brazil, Europe and the United States to think through how (il)legalities are produced and represented at the level of institutions, (daily) practice and culture. Through a transdisciplinary approach, the chapters cover issues including informal work practices (e.g. street vendors), urban squatter movements and migration. Alongside social practices, the volume features close analyses of cultural practices and cultural production, including migrant literature, punk music and indigenous art. The question of (il)legalities resonates beyond Brazil’s borders, as concepts such as "lawfare" have crept into vocabularies, and countries the world over grapple with issues like state interference, fake news and the definition of "illegal" migration. This is valuable reading for scholars in Brazilian and Latin American Studies, as well as those working in literary and cultural studies, anthropology, sociology, geography and political science.

Author : Graciliano Ramos
Publisher : London : P. Owen
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Childhood written by Graciliano Ramos and published by London : P. Owen. This book was released on 1979 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Patricia Garcia
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 178683510X
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fantastic Short Stories by Women Authors from Spain and Latin America written by Patricia Garcia and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It includes introductions to the life and work of female authors who are not very well known in the Anglophone world due to the lack of translations of their works. This critical work with a feminist focus will provide a helpful framework for undergraduate and postgraduate students in the UK and US. A wide-ranging bibliography will be of great assistance to those looking to pursue research on the fantastic or on any of the specific writers and texts. This book is endorsed by the British Academy as part of the project Gender and the Fantastic in Hispanic Studies, and by an established international network, namely the Grupo de Estudios sobre lo Fantástico, based in the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona.

Author : Richard A. Mazzara
Publisher : New York : Twayne Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Graciliano Ramos written by Richard A. Mazzara and published by New York : Twayne Publishers. This book was released on 1974 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: