Myth and Ideology in Contemporary Brazilian Fiction

Myth and Ideology in Contemporary Brazilian Fiction
Author: Daphne Patai
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1983
Genre: Brazilian fiction
ISBN: 9780838631324

Analyzing the thematic and formal characteristics of six contemporary Brazilian novels, this study explores the use of myth and its ideological implications. The writers examined are Maria Alice Barroso, Clarice Lispector, Jorge Amado, Carlos Heitor Cony, Adonias Filho, and Autran Dourado.

The Poetics of Myth

The Poetics of Myth
Author: Eleazar M. Meletinsky
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 517
Release: 2014-01-21
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1135599068

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

New World Myth

New World Myth
Author: Marie Vautier
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 364
Release: 1998-01-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0773566880

There is an emphasis on de-constructing, de-centring, de-stabilizing, and especially de-mythologizing in the study that illustrates New World myth narrators questioning the past in the present and carrying out their original investigations of myth, place, and identity. Underlining the fact that political realities are encoded in the language and narrative of the works, Vautier argues that the reworkings of literary, religious, and historical myths and political ideologies in these novels are grounded in their shared situation of being in and of the New World.

Concise Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature

Concise Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature
Author: Verity Smith
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 701
Release: 2014-01-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1135960267

The Concise Encyclopedia includes: all entries on topics and countries, cited by many reviewers as being among the best entries in the book; entries on the 50 leading writers in Latin America from colonial times to the present; and detailed articles on some 50 important works in this literature-those who read and studied in the English-speaking world.

Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature

Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature
Author: Verity Smith
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 1781
Release: 1997-03-26
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 113531425X

A comprehensive, encyclopedic guide to the authors, works, and topics crucial to the literature of Central and South America and the Caribbean, the Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature includes over 400 entries written by experts in the field of Latin American studies. Most entries are of 1500 words but the encyclopedia also includes survey articles of up to 10,000 words on the literature of individual countries, of the colonial period, and of ethnic minorities, including the Hispanic communities in the United States. Besides presenting and illuminating the traditional canon, the encyclopedia also stresses the contribution made by women authors and by contemporary writers. Outstanding Reference Source Outstanding Reference Book

The Routledge Encyclopedia of Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century

The Routledge Encyclopedia of Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century
Author: Sorrel Kerbel
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 1394
Release: 2004-11-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 1135456070

Now available in paperback for the first time, Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century is both a comprehensive reference resource and a springboard for further study. This volume: examines canonical Jewish writers, less well-known authors of Yiddish and Hebrew, and emerging Israeli writers includes entries on figures as diverse as Marcel Proust, Franz Kafka, Tristan Tzara, Eugene Ionesco, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, Arthur Miller, Saul Bellow, Nadine Gordimer, and Woody Allen contains introductory essays on Jewish-American writing, Holocaust literature and memoirs, Yiddish writing, and Anglo-Jewish literature provides a chronology of twentieth-century Jewish writers. Compiled by expert contributors, this book contains over 330 entries on individual authors, each consisting of a biography, a list of selected publications, a scholarly essay on their work and suggestions for further reading.

Pop Culture Latin America!

Pop Culture Latin America!
Author: Lisa Shaw
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2005-01-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1851095098

A survey of contemporary Latin American popular culture, covering topics that range from music and film to popular festivals and fashion. Like no other volume of its kind, Pop Culture Latin America! captures the breadth and vitality of pop culture in Central and South America and the Caribbean, exploring both familiar and lesser-known aspects of its unique melange of art, entertainment, spirituality, and celebrations. Written by contributors who are scholars and specialists in the cultures and languages of Latin America, the book focuses on the historical, social, and political forces that have shaped Latino culture since 1945, particularly in the last two decades. Separate chapters cover music, popular cinema, mass media, theater and performance, literature, cultural heroes, religions and festivals, social movements and politics, the visual arts and architecture, sports and leisure, travel and tourism, and language.

Look Away!

Look Away!
Author: Jon Smith
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 540
Release: 2004-07-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780822333166

DIVExamines what happens to our paradigms of the American south if we understand the "south" hemispherically, to include Latin America and the Caribbean./div

Mulatto

Mulatto
Author: Aluísio Azevedo
Publisher: Associated University Presse
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1990
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780838633809

Set in the provincial Brazilian state of Maranhao before the abolition of slavery and the establishment of the first republic, this scathing expose relates the story of Raimundo, a young Brazilian of liberal ideas. Mulatto is also a love story, set in motion by biology and sentiment.