Culture Wars in Brazil

Williams Daryle Williams

Description

In Culture Wars in Brazil Daryle Williams analyzes the contentious politicking over the administration, meaning, and look of Brazilian culture that marked the first regime of president-dictator Getulio Vargas (1883-1954). Examining a series of interconnected battles waged among bureaucrats, artists, intellectuals, critics, and everyday citizens over the state's power to regulate and consecrate the field of cultural production, Williams argues that the high-stakes struggles over cultural management fought between the Revolution of 1930 and the fall of the Estado Novo dictatorship centered on the bragging rights to brasilidade-an intangible yet highly coveted sense of Brazilianness.Williams draws on a rich selection of textual, pictorial, and architectural sources in his exploration of the dynamic nature of educational film and radio, historical preservation, museum management, painting, public architecture, and national delegations organized for international expositions during the unsettled era in which modern Brazil's cultural canon took definitive form. In his close reading of the tensions surrounding official policies of cultural management, Williams both updates the research of the pioneer generation of North American Brazilianists, who examined the politics of state building during the Vargas era, and engages today's generation of Brazilianists, who locate the construction of national identity of modern Brazil in the Vargas era.By integrating Brazil into a growing body of literature on the cultural dimensions of nations and nationalism, Culture Wars in Brazil will be important reading for students and scholars of Latin American history, state formation, modernist art and architecture, and cultural studies.

Sujets

• Histoire
• América del Sur
• Cultural studies
• 20th century
• South America
• History of the Americas
• Brazil

Informations

• Publié par: Duke University Press
• Date de parution: 12 juillet 2001
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780822380962
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

Extrait

Culture Wars in Brazil

CULTURE

WARS

IN BRAZIL

Daryle

Williams

The First

Vargas Regime,

–

Duke University Press

Durham & London

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Contents

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  ix   xi   xiii xvii xxi

Introduction  ,  ,    

The Vargas Era and Culture Wars

Cultural Management before 

Cultural Management, –

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‘‘The Identity Documents of the Brazilian Nation’’      

Museums and Memory

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Expositions and ‘‘Export Quality’’ Culture

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Conclusion ?    

    

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Figures

. Brazil,   . Third Congresso de Brasilidade, Rio de Janeiro,   . Youth Parade, Dia da Raça, Rio de Janeiro,  September   . Jean-Baptiste Debret,Acclamation of D. João VI . Francisco Chaves Pinheiro,Statue of Dom Pedro II . Vitor Meireles,Batalha Naval do Riachuelo . Centennial Exposition, Rio de Janeiro,   . Large Industries Pavilion, Centennial Exposition  . Igreja de Bom Jesus de Matosinhos, Congonhas do Campo,c.  . Ministry of Education and Health Building, Rio de Janeiro, –  . Vargas Joins the Brazilian Academy of Letters,  December   . National School of Fine Arts, Rio de Janeiro  . Gustavo Capanema,   . Interior of the Ministry of Education Pavilion, Exposição do Estado Novo, Rio de Janeiro, December   . Vargas Announces the Estado Novo,  November   . Panorama of Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais,c.  . Chafariz do Passo de Antônio Dias in Ruins, Ouro Preto, December   . Restoration of Chafariz do Passo de Antônio Dias, early   . Missão São Miguel, Santo Ângelo, Rio Grande do Sul,c.  . Aleijadinho,Jonah . Igreja de São Francisco de Assis, Ouro Preto,c.  . Plaster Casts of Aleijadinho Prophets,Headquarters,   . Grande Hotel de Ouro Preto,   . Leandro Joaquim,Revista Militar no Largo do Paço . Historic Quarter of São João del Rey, Minas Gerais,c.  . Panteão dos Inconfidentes,c. 