1st Edition
Literature and Ethics in Contemporary Brazil
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Foreword
DOMINIC RAINSFORD
Introduction
VINICIUS MARIANO DE CARVALHO and NICOLA GAVIOLI
1. 2013 Frankfurt Book Fair’s Speech
LUIZ RUFFATO
2. Brazilian Contemporary Fiction and the Representation of Poverty
REGINA DALCASTAGNÈ
3. Memorials of Words: The Victim in Brazilian Literature
ROBERTO VECCHI
4. Deciphered Brazil and Enigma Brazil: Notes on Social Exclusion and Violence in Contemporary Brazilian Literature
EDIMILSON DE ALMEIDA PEREIRA
5. Journeys of Resistance in Afro-Brazilian Literature: the Case of Conceição Evaristo
SARA BRANDELLERO
6. Growing Up to Human Rights: The Bildungsroman and the Discourse of Human Rights in Um defeito de cor
LEILA LEHNEN
7. Narrating other Perspectives, Re-drawing History. The Protagonization of Afro-Brazilians in the Work of Graphic Novelist Marcelo d’Salete
JASMIN WROBEL
8. Neither Here nor There: Unsettling Encounters in Paulo Scott’s Habitante Irreal
CLAIRE WILLIAMS
9. Can’t You Hear my Call? The Guarani Kaiowá Letter and the Right to Land and Literature in Brazil
MARÍLIA LIBRANDI-ROCHA
10. In Search of a New Invisibilty
DENILSON LOPES
11. Revisions of Masculinity under Dictatorship: Gabeira, Caio and Noll
IDELBER AVELAR
12. Testimonial Performance: Fictions of the Real in Contemporary Art
MÁRCIO SELIGMANN-SILVA
13. Lyrical Guides to the Peripheries of Rio de Janeiro: Two Historical Moments
FELIPE BOTELHO CORRÊA
14. Nicolas Behr’s Futuristic braxília and the Critical Reinvention of Brasiliensidade (brasília-em-cidade)
STEVEN F. BUTTERMAN
15. The Night Explodes in the Cities: Three Hypotheses about Vinagre: uma antologia de poetas neobarracos
GUSTAVO SILVEIRA RIBEIRO
Biography
Vinicius Mariano de Carvalho is Lecturer at King’s Brazil Institute at King's College London, UK.
Nicola Gavioli is Assistant Professor of Portuguese at Florida International University, USA.
