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Graciliano Ramos and the Making of Modern Brazil

Graciliano Ramos and the Making of Modern Brazil

Sara Brandellero | Lucia Villares

(2017)

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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
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
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