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Author Brandellero, Dr Sara

Title Graciliano Ramos and the Making of Modern Brazil : Memory, Politics and Identities
Published Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (264 pages)
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Series Editors' Foreword; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Chapter One: Reflections on Graciliano Ramos; Chapter Two: Graciliano Ramos and Politics in Alagoas; Chapter Three: Debris of Worthless Shipwrecks: Caetés, the Anachronisms and Simulacra of the Modern Nation; Chapter Four: The Subjectivity of the Werewolf (São Bernardo); Chapter Five: The Dead Woman in the Bedroom: São Bernardo; Chapter Six: A Thick Heart: Migration of Souls and Meanings; Chapter Seven: The Writing of the Spectral Land in Vidas secas
Chapter Eight: The Anguish of RevolutionChapter Nine: Unearthing Value: Money and Topographies of the Self in Graciliano Ramos; Chapter Ten: Graciliano Ramos is Not the Author of Madame Bovary; Chapter Eleven: The Freedom of Memory:Autobiography and Fiction in Graciliano Ramos and Silviano Santiago; Chapter Twelve: On Influences: Graciliano Ramos and Milton Hatoum; Index; Back Cover
Summary Graciliano Ramos and the Making of Modern Brazil provides new readings and fresh perspectives on the Brazilian writer Graciliano Ramos (1892-1953), whose socially and politically engaged work remains a key reference for our understanding of the making of modern Brazil and continues to reverberate in the country's contemporary context
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Subject Ramos, Graciliano, 1892-1953 -- Criticism and interpretation
Ramos, Graciliano, 1892-1953
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Caribbean & Latin American.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- Hispanic American.
Literature
Politics and government
Brazil -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
Brazil -- In literature
Brazil
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Aufsatzsammlung.
Form Electronic book
Author Villares, Dr Lucia
ISBN 9781783169863
1783169869