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Book Literatura e industria cultural

Download or read book Literatura e industria cultural written by Silvia Barei and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Literatura  outras artes e ind  stria cultural

Download or read book Literatura outras artes e ind stria cultural written by Eurídice Figueiredo and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Literary Culture and U S  Imperialism

Download or read book Literary Culture and U S Imperialism written by John Carlos Rowe and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 739 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Carlos Rowe, considered one of the most eminent and progressive critics of American literature, has in recent years become instrumental in shaping the path of American studies. His latest book examines literary responses to U.S. imperialism from the late eighteenth century to the 1940s. Interpreting texts by Charles Brockden Brown, Poe, Melville, John Rollin Ridge, Twain, Henry Adams, Stephen Crane, W. E. B Du Bois, John Neihardt, Nick Black Elk, and Zora Neale Hurston, Rowe argues that U.S. literature has a long tradition of responding critically or contributing to our imperialist ventures. Following in the critical footsteps of Richard Slotkin and Edward Said, Literary Culture and U.S. Imperialism is particularly innovative in taking account of the public and cultural response to imperialism. In this sense it could not be more relevant to what is happening in the scholarship, and should be vital reading for scholars and students of American literature and culture.

Book The Figure of the Author in a Global Context

Download or read book The Figure of the Author in a Global Context written by Raphaele Freire Limas and published by Editora Dialética. This book was released on 2021-06-02 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the history of the publishing industry, the figure of the author has undergone major transformations. The modernization and development of consumer societies enabled the marketing and promotion of authors as true brands. The purpose of this book is to analyze the life and work of Gabriel García Márquez and how, through the promotion mechanisms used by the publishing industry, his name became a global brand. This book also explores the impacts that García Márquez's role, as a post-colonial author and exponent of magical realism in Latin America, generated for his recognition inside and outside the continent.

Book The Five Seasons of Love

    Book Details:
  • Author : João Almino
  • Publisher : Host Publications, Inc.
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 9780924047503
  • Pages : 194 pages

Download or read book The Five Seasons of Love written by João Almino and published by Host Publications, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated from the Portugese by Elizabeth Jackson. In THE FIVE SEASONS OF LOVE, acclaimed Brazilian writer Joao Almino presents a compelling and sympathetic portrait of a woman whose life has not turned out as she anticipated, and whose once audacious dreams have been replaced by half-truths, failures, and frustration. To fulfill a pact made during her student days, fifty-five-year-old Ana Kauffman plans a party to celebrate the new millennium. As old friends resurface and the countdown to the new century draws near, Ana's past undergoes a series of unexpected revisions--beginning with the arrival of Berta, the newly minted post-op persona of Ana's former boyfriend Norberto. Set amidst the chaos of contemporary Brasilia, a place where even the most basic human affairs--love, friendship, sex, and work--can take unlikely shapes, Ana's story is both relentlessly modern and profoundly timeless. Winner of the Casa de las Americas 2003 Literary Award, THE FIVE SEASONS OF LOVE is an extraordinary novel by a writer at the height of his powers.

Book Specular City

Download or read book Specular City written by Laura Podalsky and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A sweeping account of one of the cultural centers of Latin America, Specular City tells the history of Buenos Aires during the interregnum after Juan Peron's fall from power and before his restoration. During those two decades, the city experienced a rapid metamorphosis at the behest of its middle class citizens, who were eager to cast off the working-class imprint left by the Peronists. Laura Podalsky discusses the ways in which the proliferation of skyscrapers, the emergence of car culture, and the diffusion of an emerging revolution in the arts helped transform Buenos Aires, and, in so doing, redefine Argentine collective history. More than a cultural and material history of this city, this book also presents Buenos Aires as a crucible for urban life. Examining its structures through films, literatures, new magazines, advertising and architecture, Specular City reveals the prominent place of Buenos Aires in the massive changes that Latin America underwent for a new, modern definition of itself."--Book cover.

Book The Aesthetic Border

Download or read book The Aesthetic Border written by Brantley Nicholson and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-22 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking study examines how modern Colombian literature—from Gabriel García Márquez to Juan Gabriel Vásquez—reflects one of the world’s most tumultuous entrances into globalization. While these literary icons, one canonical, the other emergent, bookend Colombia’s fall and rise on the world stage, the period between the two was inordinately violent, spanning the Colombian urban novel’s evolution into narco-literature. Marking Colombia’s cultural and literary manifestations as threefold, this book explores García Márquez’s retreat to a rural romanticism that paradoxically made him a global literary icon; the country’s violent end to the twentieth century when its largest economic export was narcotics; and the contemporary period in which a new major author has emerged to create a “literature of national reconstitution.” Harkening back to the Regeneration movement and extending through the early twenty-first century, this book analyzes the cultural implications of Colombia’s relationship to the wider world.

Book Ind  stria cultural e sociedade

Download or read book Ind stria cultural e sociedade written by Theodor W. Adorno and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " Reunião de ensaios de Adorno, Indústria cultural e sociedade retorna às livrarias com novo projeto gráfico. “Um volume de Adorno é equivalente a toda uma estante de livros sobre literatura” – Susan Sontag Analisar e compreender a organização e a manifestação da cultura dentro do desenvolvimento do capitalismo foi um dos motores de pensamento do alemão Theodor W. Adorno. E, sem dúvida, a extensão dessa elocubração que se detém ao ritmo industrial da produção cultural, sempre rápido, duro, pasteurizado e “sem alma”, segundo Adorno, é criticável em qualquer regime político, econômico e ideológico. Um dos principais nomes da Escola de Frankfurt – grupo responsável por uma série de leituras sociais e filosóficas de embasamento crítico –, Adorno, descendente de judeus, estudioso de Kant e amante das artes (em especial da música), foi obrigado a fugir da Alemanha durante a perseguição judaica e socialista. Durante o exílio nos Estados Unidos, seu interesse pelo imbricamento de técnica, cultura e consumo gerou a obra Dialética do esclarecimento, escrita em conjunto com Max Horkheimer, na qual aparece pela primeira vez o conceito de indústria cultural. O termo, utilizado como uma atualização da ideia de cultura de massa, remete às ideias de dominação, difusão e velocidade com o qual a cultura, o entretenimento e a diversão passam a ser tratados e oferecidos pelo capitalismo aos trabalhadores-consumidores, que, ao fim do dia, encontram apenas o sempre-igual, a eterna repetição do passado. Nesta nova edição de Indústria cultural e sociedade, leitores e leitoras encontrarão três importantes ensaios de Theodor Adorno escolhidos pelo professor da Universidade de São Paulo Jorge de Almeida. São eles: “Indústria cultural: o Iluminismo como mistificação das massas”, “Crítica cultural e sociedade” e “Tempo livre”. Escritos entre 1947 e 1969 – ano de morte do autor –, estes textos apresentam suas ideias centrais acerca do empobrecimento da experiência, da desvalorização do ócio e do desenvolvimento artístico. A partir da discussão sobre os principais meios de difusão de sua época – o rádio e o cinema –, Adorno abre portas que nos permitem compreender manifestações culturais, artísticas e de entretenimento dos séculos XX e XXI. Diante destes ensaios clássicos da filosofia da comunicação e da estética, podemos conhecer e questionar as atuais implicações e imposições da ideologia e da técnica. Se até agora estivemos diante do sempre-igual, com este livro será possível refletir e modificar a pseudocultura da indústria cultural. "

Book Caribbean Diaspora in the USA

Download or read book Caribbean Diaspora in the USA written by Dr Bettina Schmidt and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caribbean Diaspora in the USA presents a new cultural theory based on an exploration of Caribbean religious communities in New York City. The Caribbean culture of New York demonstrates a cultural dynamism which embraces Spanish speaking, English speaking and French speaking migrants. All cultures are full of breaks and contradictions as Latin American and Caribbean theorists have demonstrated in their ongoing debate. This book combines unique research by the author in Caribbean New York with the theoretical discourse of Latin American and Caribbean scholars. Focusing on Caribbean religious communities, including Cuban/Puerto Rican Santería (Regla de Ocha), Haitian Vodou, Shango (Orisha Baptist) from Trinidad and Tobago, and Brazilian Pentecostal church, Schmidt's observations lead to the construction of a cultural concept that illustrates a culture in an ongoing state of change, with more than one form of expression depending on situation, time and context. Showing the creativity of religions and the way immigrants adapt to their new surroundings, this book fills a gap between Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

Book The Culture Industry  Information and Capitalism

Download or read book The Culture Industry Information and Capitalism written by C. Bolaño and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on Marxist theory and concepts, as well as on various theoretical contributions developed by prominent political economists, Bolaño develops a unique approach to understanding the culture industry, offering an interesting intervention in debates surrounding media and communication.

Book Making Ecuadorian Histories

    Book Details:
  • Author : O. Hugo Benavides
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Release : 2010-01-01
  • ISBN : 0292782942
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book Making Ecuadorian Histories written by O. Hugo Benavides and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Ecuador, as in all countries, archaeology and history play fundamental roles in defining national identity. Connecting with the prehistoric and historic pasts gives the modern state legitimacy and power. But the state is not the only actor that lays claim to the country's archaeological patrimony, nor is its official history the only version of the story. Indigenous peoples are increasingly drawing on the past to claim their rights and standing in the modern Ecuadorian state, while the press tries to present a "neutral" version of history that will satisfy its various publics. This pathfinding book investigates how archaeological knowledge is used for both maintaining and contesting nation-building and state-hegemony in Ecuador. Specifically, Hugo Benavides analyzes how the pre-Hispanic site of Cochasquí has become a source of competing narratives of Native American, Spanish, and Ecuadorian occupations, which serve the differing needs of the nation-state and different national populations at large. He also analyzes the Indian movement itself and the recent controversy over the final resting place for the traditional monolith of San Biritute. Offering a more nuanced view of the production of history than previous studies, Benavides demonstrates how both official and resistance narratives are constantly reproduced and embodied within the nation-state's dominant discourses.

Book Music and Identity in Twentieth Century Literature from Our America

Download or read book Music and Identity in Twentieth Century Literature from Our America written by Marco Katz Montiel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-08-19 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a one-of-a-kind approach to music and literature of the Americas, this book examines the relationships between musical protagonists from Colombia, Cuba, and the United States in novels by writers such as Gabriel García Márquez, Alejo Carpentier, Zora Neale Hurston, and John Okada.

Book The Latin American Songbook in the Twentieth Century

Download or read book The Latin American Songbook in the Twentieth Century written by Tânia da Costa Garcia and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Latin American Songbook in the Twentieth Century: From Folklore to Militancy takes an unprecedented comparative analysis approach to the complex relationship between popular music and culture, society, and politics in Latin America as it relates to representations of national identity. Tânia da Costa Garcia analyzes archival research in Chile, Brazil and Argentina, which have very similar cultural and political processes. This book is divided into two different parts: the first focuses on how the folk studies movement was legitimized in Chile, Brazil, and Argentina; while the second emphasizes the rich history of how the militant song movement in Spanish America was received, transformed, and transmitted to Brazil in the second half of the twentieth century. This book will be especially useful to scholars of Latin American studies, music studies, cultural studies, and history.

Book Postnational Musical Identities

Download or read book Postnational Musical Identities written by Ignacio Corona and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2007-12-28 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postnational Musical Identities gathers interdisciplinary essays that explore how music audiences and markets are imagined in a globalized scenario, how music reflects and reflects upon new understandings of citizenship beyond the nation-state, and how music works as a site of resistance against globalization. 'Hybridity,' 'postnationalism,' 'transnationalism,' 'globalization,' 'diaspora,' and similar buzzwords have not only informed scholarly discourse and analysis of music but also shaped the way musical productions have been marketed worldwide in recent times. While the construction of identities occupies a central position in this context, there are discrepancies between the conceptualization of music as an extremely fluid phenomenon and the traditionally monovalent notion of identity to which it has historically been incorporated. As such, music has always been linked to the construction of regional and national identities. The essays in this collection seek to explore the role of music, networks of music distribution, music markets, music consumption, music production, and music scholarship in the articulation of postnational sites of identification.

Book A Narrative Biography of Horacio Quiroga  the Lone Anarchist

Download or read book A Narrative Biography of Horacio Quiroga the Lone Anarchist written by Wilson Alves-Bezerra and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-16 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a unique and definitive biography in English of the Uruguayan-Argentinian short story writer Horacio Quiroga (1878-1937), known as the Latin-American Poe. Written in amusing prose and with an academic background, which can be an important reference for the public in general as well as to Latin American literature researchers all over the world, it is an up-to-date, narrative biography by a Brazilian writer and researcher who has dedicated the last twenty years to Quiroga’s translation and research. The research uses several unknown or lesser-known documents as well as newspapers and magazines from the beginning of the 20th century, found in libraries and archives in Argentina, Brazil, Germany, and Uruguay. The book is written against a contemporary background, and focusses on the humanization of Quiroga and the participation of, until now, maginalized women in his personal and public life, such as Alfonsina Storni and Norah Lange, allowing the construction of an image which is less monumental and more complex in its contradictions.

Book Monographic Series

Download or read book Monographic Series written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Making Samba

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marc A Hertzman
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2013-04-16
  • ISBN : 0822391902
  • Pages : 389 pages

Download or read book Making Samba written by Marc A Hertzman and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In November 1916, a young Afro-Brazilian musician named Donga registered sheet music for the song "Pelo telefone" ("On the Telephone") at the National Library in Rio de Janeiro. This apparently simple act—claiming ownership of a musical composition—set in motion a series of events that would shake Brazil's cultural landscape. Before the debut of "Pelo telephone," samba was a somewhat obscure term, but by the late 1920s, the wildly popular song had helped to make it synonymous with Brazilian national music. The success of "Pelo telephone" embroiled Donga in controversy. A group of musicians claimed that he had stolen their work, and a prominent journalist accused him of selling out his people in pursuit of profit and fame. Within this single episode are many of the concerns that animate Making Samba, including intellectual property claims, the Brazilian state, popular music, race, gender, national identity, and the history of Afro-Brazilians in Rio de Janeiro. By tracing the careers of Rio's pioneering black musicians from the late nineteenth century until the 1970s, Marc A. Hertzman revises the histories of samba and of Brazilian national culture.