Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures
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Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures

Gender and Race in Brazilian Culture and Literature

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Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures

Gender and Race in Brazilian Culture and Literature

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In The Ripple Effect: Gender and Race in Brazilian Culture and Literature, Barbosa adopts a comparative, multilayered, and interdisciplinary line of research to examine social values and cultural mores from the first decades of the twentieth century to the present. By analyzing the historical, cultural, religious, and interactive space of Brazil's national identity, The Ripple Effect surveys expressive cultures and literary manifestations. It uses the martial art-dance-ritual capoeira as a lynchpin to disclose historical ambiguities and the negotiation of cultural and literary boundaries within the context of the ideological construct of a mestizo nation. The book also examines laws governing gender in Brazil and discusses honor killings and other types of violence against women. The Ripple Effect appraises the contributions that some iconic female figures have made to the development of Brazil's distinctive cultural and literary production. Drawing on more than fifteen years of field, archival, and scholarly research, this work offers new interpretative venues, and broadens the critical focus and the methodological scope of previous scholarship. It reveals how literature and other arts can be used to document cultural norms, catalog life experiences, and analyze complex constructions of social values, ideas, and belief systems.

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Publisher
Purdue University Press
Year
2023
ISBN
9781612498546
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Latin American & Caribbean Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introductory Remarks
  8. Chapter One Mapping Asymmetries
  9. Chapter Two The Erotic and Exotic Lure
  10. Chapter Three Women in Soccer
  11. Chapter Four Capoeira: Jogo Bonito, Jogo de Dentro, Jogo de Fora
  12. Chapter Five Women in Capoeira
  13. Chapter Six Women in Brazilian Popular Music and Capoeira Songs
  14. Coda
  15. Notes
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index
  18. About the Author