Download or read book Hotel Brasil written by Frei Betto and published by Bitter Lemon Press. This book was released on 2014-02-24 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The murder of guests in a run-down family hotel in Rio de Janeiro, smiling heads severed with a blunt blade.
Download or read book Hotel Brasil written by Frei Betto and published by Bitter Lemon Press. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rio de Janeiro. A family hotel whose clients reflect Brazilian society: multi-racial, with starkly contrasting backgrounds, and destitute. The first victim is found decapitated in bed, the head lying on the floor of his room. An eerie Mona Lisa smile on the victim's face and no evidence of a struggle indicate a murderer received as a friend. Other hotel guests are eventually killed, all decapitated. A classical crime novel in one way but really an opportunity for the author to describe Brazilian society, especially those left behind.
Download or read book Hotel Tr pico written by Jerry Dávila and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of African decolonization, Brazil attempted to forge connections with newly independent countries. In the early 1960s it launched an effort to establish diplomatic ties with Africa; in the 1970s it undertook trade campaigns to open African markets to Brazilian technology. Hotel Trópico reveals the perceptions, particularly regarding race, of the diplomats and intellectuals who traveled to Africa on Brazil’s behalf. Jerry Dávila analyzes how their actions were shaped by ideas of Brazil as an emerging world power, ready to expand its sphere of influence; of Africa as the natural place to assert that influence, given its historical slave-trade ties to Brazil; and of twentieth-century Brazil as a “racial democracy,” a uniquely harmonious mix of races and cultures. While the experiences of Brazilian policymakers and diplomats in Africa reflected the logic of racial democracy, they also exposed ruptures in this interpretation of Brazilian identity. Did Brazil share a “lusotropical” identity with Portugal and its African colonies, so that it was bound to support Portuguese colonialism at the expense of Brazil’s ties with African nations? Or was Brazil a country of “Africans of every color,” compelled to support decolonization in its role as a natural leader in the South Atlantic? Drawing on interviews with retired Brazilian diplomats and intellectuals, Dávila shows the Brazilian belief in racial democracy to be about not only race but also Portuguese ethnicity.
Download or read book Hotel Brasil written by Betto (Frei) and published by Editora Atica. This book was released on 1999 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Frommer s Brazil written by Alexandra de Vries and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides description, costs, and contact information on transportation, hotels, restaurants, shopping, beaches, cultural activities, and organized tours.
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