Imagining Brazil
Imagining Brazil provides a comprehensive and multifaceted picture of Brazil in the age of globalization. Privileging diversity in relation to the authors as well as the manner in which Brazil is perceived, Jessé Souza and Valter Sinder have assembled historians, political scientists, sociologists, literary critics, and scholars of culture in an attempt to understand a complex society in all its richness and diversity. Rising from one of the world’s poorest societies in the 1930s to the eighth largest world economy in the 1980s, Brazil is used as an example of globalization’s impact on peripheral societies, exploring in new contexts the serious social problems that have always characterized this society. Imagining Brazil explores the connections between society and politics and culture and literature, creating an encompassing volume of interest to scholars of Latin American studies as well as those interested in how globalization impacts the varied aspects of a country.
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Imagining Brazil
Imagining Brazil provides a comprehensive and multifaceted picture of Brazil in the age of globalization. Privileging diversity in relation to the authors as well as the manner in which Brazil is perceived, Jessé Souza and Valter Sinder have assembled historians, political scientists, sociologists, literary critics, and scholars of culture in an attempt to understand a complex society in all its richness and diversity. Rising from one of the world’s poorest societies in the 1930s to the eighth largest world economy in the 1980s, Brazil is used as an example of globalization’s impact on peripheral societies, exploring in new contexts the serious social problems that have always characterized this society. Imagining Brazil explores the connections between society and politics and culture and literature, creating an encompassing volume of interest to scholars of Latin American studies as well as those interested in how globalization impacts the varied aspects of a country.
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Imagining Brazil provides a comprehensive and multifaceted picture of Brazil in the age of globalization. Privileging diversity in relation to the authors as well as the manner in which Brazil is perceived, Jessé Souza and Valter Sinder have assembled historians, political scientists, sociologists, literary critics, and scholars of culture in an attempt to understand a complex society in all its richness and diversity. Rising from one of the world’s poorest societies in the 1930s to the eighth largest world economy in the 1980s, Brazil is used as an example of globalization’s impact on peripheral societies, exploring in new contexts the serious social problems that have always characterized this society. Imagining Brazil explores the connections between society and politics and culture and literature, creating an encompassing volume of interest to scholars of Latin American studies as well as those interested in how globalization impacts the varied aspects of a country.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780739110133
Publisher: Lexington Books
Publication date: 06/14/2005
Series: Global Encounters: Studies in Comparative Political Theory
Pages: 318
Product dimensions: 6.25(w) x 9.22(h) x 1.16(d)

About the Author

Jessé Souza is professor at the department of sociology, UENF, Rio de Janeiro.
Valter Sinder is coordinator of the course of social sciences of the Pontifical Catholic University, Rio de Janeiro and professor of anthropology at the University of the State of Rio de Janeiro.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction
Part 2 Society and Politics
Chapter 3 The Singularity of the Peripheral Social Inequality
Chapter 4 Culture, Democracy, and the Formation of the Public Sphere in Brazil
Chapter 5 Between Under-Integration and Over-Integration: Not Taking Citizenship Seriously
Chapter 6 The Paraguayan War: A Constitutional, Political, and Economic Turning Point for Brazil
Chapter 7 Max Weber and the Interpretation of Brazil
Chapter 8 Racial Democracy
Chapter 9 From Bahia to Brazil: The UNESCO Race Relations Project
Part 10 Literature and Culture
Chapter 11 Brazilian Cultural Critique: Possible Scenarios of a Pending Debate
Chapter 12 The Republic and the Suburb: Literary Imagination and Modernity in Brazil
Chapter 13 Identity is the Other
Chapter 14 The Relevance of Machado de Assis
Chapter 15 From Bossa Nova to Tropicália: Restraint and Excess in Popular Music
Chapter 16 Elective Infidelities: Intellectuals and Politics
Chapter 17 An Amphibious Literature
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