Graciliano Ramos and the Making of Modern Brazil

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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.

Sujets

• Arts visuels
• Histoire des Arts
• Histoire des Arts
• Politics
• Latin America
• Art
• Brazil

Informations

• Publié par: University of Wales Press
• Date de parution: 01 juin 2017
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781783169870
• Langue: English

Extrait

IBERIAN AND LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES
Graciliano Ramos and the Making of Modern Brazil
Series Editors
Professor David George (Swansea University) Professor Paul Garner (University of Leeds)
Editorial Board
David Frier (University of Leeds) Lisa Shaw (University of Liverpool) Gareth Walters (Swansea University) Rob Stone (University of Birmingham) David Gies (University of Virginia) Catherine Davies (University of London) Richard Cleminson (University of Leeds) Duncan Wheeler (University of Leeds) Jo Labanyi (New York University) Roger Bartra (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
Other titles in the series
Catalonia: National Identity and Cultural Policy Kathryn Crameri
Melancholy and Culture: Diseases of the Soul in Golden Age Spain Roger Bartra
The Poetics of Otherness in Antonio Machado’s ‘Proverbios y Cantares’ Nicolas Fernandez-Medina
The Spanish Golden Age Sonnet John Rutherford
María Zambrano: A Life of Poetic Reason and Political Commitment Beatriz Caballero Rodríguez
Nationalism and Transnationalism in Spain and Latin America, 1808–1923 Paul Garner and Angel Smith (eds)
The Enlightenment in Iberia and Ibero-America Brian Hamnett
IBERIAN AND LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES
Graciliano Ramos and the Making of Modern Brazil
Memory, Politics and Identities
Edited by
SARA BRANDELLERO AND LUCIA VILLARES
© The Contributors, 2017
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For Alice and Leo
Contents
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Series Editors’ Foreword
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Sara Brandellero and Lucia Villares
Chapter 1: Reflections on Graciliano Ramos Luiz Ruffato
Chapter 2: Graciliano Ramos and Politics in Alagoas Randal Johnson
Chapter 3: Debris of Worthless Shipwrecks: Caetés, the Anachronisms and Simulacra of the Modern Nation Roberto Vecchi
Chapter 4: The Subjectivity of the Werewolf ( São Bernardo ) Ana Paula Pacheco
Chapter 5: The Dead Woman in the Bedroom: São Bernardo Lúcia Helena Vianna
Chapter 6: A Thick Heart: Migration of Souls and Meanings Lucia Helena
Chapter 7: The Writing of the Spectral Land in Vidas secas Sara Brandellero
Chapter 8: The Anguish of Revolution Wander Melo Miranda
Chapter 9: Unearthing Value: Money and Topographies of the Self in Graciliano Ramos Lucia Villares
Chapter 10: Graciliano Ramos is Not the Author of Madame Bovary Mario Cámara
Chapter 11: The Freedom of Memory: Autobiography and Fiction in Graciliano Ramos and Silviano Santiago Aquiles Alencar Brayner
Chapter 12: On Influences: Graciliano Ramos and Milton Hatoum Tânia Pellegrini
Series Editors’ Foreword
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Over recent decades the traditional ‘languages and literatures’ model in Spanish departments in universities in the United Kingdom has been superseded by a contextual, interdisciplinary and ‘area studies’ approach to the study of the culture, history, society and politics of the Hispanic and Lusophone worlds – categories that extend far beyond the confines of the Iberian Peninsula, not only in Latin America but also to Spanish-speaking and Lusophone Africa.
In response to these dynamic trends in research priorities and curriculum development, this series is designed to present both disciplinary and interdisciplinary research within the general field of Iberian and Latin American Studies, particularly studies that explore all aspects of Cultural Production (inter alia literature, film, music, dance, sport) in Spanish, Portuguese, Basque, Catalan, Galician and indigenous languages of Latin America. The series also aims to publish research in the History and Politics of the Hispanic and Lusophone worlds, at the level of both the region and the nation-state, as well as on Cultural Studies that explore the shifting terrains of gender, sexual, racial and postcolonial identities in those same regions.
Acknowledgements
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We would like to express our gratitude to the many people who supported us during the writing and the preparation of this book. First, we would like to thank all the contributors who took part in this project. We are also most grateful to Sarah Lewis and all the editorial team at University of Wales Press for their guidance and help in the various stages of preparation of this book, and to the readers for the feedback on the manuscript. We thank the support of our academic institutions, Leiden University and its Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS) and Cambridge University, for their support during the preparation of this manuscript. Special thanks go to Silviano Santiago for his advice and guidance; Liv Sovic for her time and support; Beth Silva for inspiring ideas and references. We also thank the conference organizers, chairs and audiences who provided us with the opportunity to test and reshape our ideas during the writing of the chapters of the book. We are also very grateful for the translators Julia Spatuzzi Felmanas and Phillip Wigan for their translations of Ana Paula Pacheco’s, Lucia Helena’s and Wander Melo Miranda’s chapters. The chapters by Roberto Vecchi, Lúcia Helena Vianna and Tânia Pellegrini and the interview with Luiz Ruffato were translated into English by Sara Brandellero. All translations are hers unless otherwise stated. We would also like to thank Ricardo Ramos Filho and Editora Record for granting us permission to use quotations from Graciliano Ramos’s originals. We also thank the publishers and editors of the chapters translated and published here that were published previously in Portuguese. Lúcia Helena Vianna’s chapter ‘The Dead Woman in the Bedroom: São Bernardo ’ was first published as ‘A mulher morta no quarto’ in the book Cenas de amor e morte na ficção brasileira: o jogo dramático da relação homem/mulher na literatura (Rio de Janeiro: EdUFF, 1999); Lucia Helena’s ‘A Thick Heart: Migration of Souls and Meanings’ first appeared as ‘O coração grosso: migração das almas e dos sentidos’ in Alceu – v. 1– n. 2 p.63ª 76 jan-jun 2001, Revista de comunicação, cultura e política/Puc/Rio – Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, ISNN 2175–74 (online) and Ana Paula Pacheco’s ‘The Subjectivity of the Werewolf ( São Bernardo )’ was previously published as ‘A subjetividade do Lobisomem’, in Iumna M. Simon e Irenísia T. de Oliveira, Modernidade e tradição na literatura brasileira, (São Paulo: Nankim Ed., 2011), and in Revista literatura e sociedade, 13 (2011), 45–57. Last and not least we would like to thank our families for their love and patience during this journey.
Notes on Contributors
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Sara Brandellero (DPhil Oxford) is Assistant Professor in Brazilian Studies at Leiden University (Netherlands) having previously taught at the Universities of Oxford and Leeds (UK). She specializes in Brazilian literature and cinema. Her publications include the book On a Knife-Edge: The Poetry of João Cabral de Melo Neto (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011) and the edited volume The Brazilian Road Movie: Journeys of (Self)Discovery (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2013).
Aquiles Alencar Brayner holds graduate degrees in psychology from the Federal University of Ceará (Brazil) and Latin American studies from Leiden University (Netherlands). He has an MA degree in Latin American literature from Leiden, an MSc degree in library and information sciences from the City University of London, and a PhD degree in Brazilian literature at King’s College London. His monograph The Literature of the Senses (Cologne: Lambert, 2009) analyses the representation of the body in the work of João Gilberto Noll.
Mario Cámara holds a PhD in Brazilian literature from the University of Buenos Aires, and is professor of literary theory and analysis at the National University of the Arts (Buenos Aires) and affiliated researcher to the National Council for Scientific Research. His publications include El caso Torquato Neto, diversos modos de ser vampiro en Brasil en los años setenta (Florianópolis: Lumen editor, 2011), Cuerpos paganos, usos y efectos en la cultura brasileña 1960–1980 (Buenos Aires: Santiago Arcos Editor, 2011; republished in Portuguese by EDUFMG in 2014), A máquina performática (with Gonzalo Aguilar, in press). He is a member of the editorial board of Grumo, literatura e imagen. He was twice the recipient of grants by DAAD for research at the Ibero-American Institute in Berlin, and by the Coimbra Group for research at Leiden University (Netherlands). He has been a visiting professor at Princeton (US) and at universities in Brazil and Spain.
Lucia Helena holds a PhD in literary theory from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ, Brazil) and a postdoctoral in comparative literature from Brown University (US). She lectured at UFRJ and is retired as Full Professor from the Fluminense Federal University (UFF, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), where she is still contributing to the postgraduate programme in literary