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Abstract
Graciliano Ramos and the Making of Modern Brazil brings updated criticism in English on the work of the prominent Brazilian writer Graciliano Ramos (1892–1953), a key figure in understanding the making of modern Brazil. Building on existing literature, this book innovates through chapters that consider issues such as Ramos’s dialogue with literary tradition, his cultural legacy for contemporary writers, and his treatment of racial discrimination and gender inequality through the multifarious, provocative and enduringly fascinating characters he created. The volume also addresses the question of Ramos’s political involvement during the years of the Getulio Vargas government (1930–45), to revisit established readings of the author’s politics. Through close reading of individual works as well as comparative analyses, this volume takes readers into the complexities of modernisation in Brazil, and highlights the writer’s significance for our understanding of Brazil today.
Table of Contents
Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
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Cover | Front Cover | ||
Title Page | iii | ||
Copyright Page | iv | ||
Dedication | v | ||
Contents | vii | ||
Series Editors’ Foreword | ix | ||
Acknowledgements | xi | ||
Notes on Contributors | xiii | ||
Introduction | 1 | ||
Chapter One: Reflections on Graciliano Ramos | 16 | ||
Chapter Two: Graciliano Ramos and Politics in Alagoas | 21 | ||
Chapter Three: Debris of Worthless Shipwrecks: Caetés, the Anachronisms and Simulacra of the Modern Nation | 43 | ||
Chapter Four: The Subjectivity of the Werewolf (São Bernardo) | 66 | ||
Chapter Five: The Dead Woman in the Bedroom: São Bernardo | 91 | ||
Chapter Six: A Thick Heart: Migration of Souls and Meanings | 114 | ||
Chapter Seven: The Writing of the Spectral Land in Vidas secas | 130 | ||
Chapter Eight: The Anguish of Revolution | 151 | ||
Chapter Nine: Unearthing Value: Money and Topographies of the Self in Graciliano Ramos | 163 | ||
Chapter Ten: Graciliano Ramos is Not the Author of Madame Bovary | 181 | ||
Chapter Eleven: The Freedom of Memory:Autobiography and Fiction in Graciliano Ramos and Silviano Santiago | 197 | ||
Chapter Twelve: On Influences: Graciliano Ramos and Milton Hatoum | 216 | ||
Index | 239 | ||
Back Cover | Back Cover |