White Negritude

Race, Writing, and Brazilian Cultural Identity
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-349-53658-0
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 194 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 269 g

Reihe: New Directions in Latino American Cultures

This book looks at the relationship of literary criticism to the social construction of race in Brazil. Isfahani-Hammond considers Gilberto Freyre's model of master/slave synthesis and examines what "multiculturalism" means after the turn of the century.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Isfahani-Hammond, A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Sozialpolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Vanishing Primitives: An Introduction * Poetry and the Plantation: Jorge de Lima's White Authorship in a Caribbean Perspective * White Man in the Tropics: Authorship and Atmospheric Blackness in Gilberto Freyre * Joaquim Nabuco: Abolitionism and Erasure in the Americas * From the Plantation Manor to the Sociologist's Study: Democracy, Lusotropicalism, and the Scene of Writing

Über Autor(innen)

Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Luso-Brazilian Studies. University of California, San Diego, USA.