The Jaguar and Other Stories

The Jaguar and Other Stories PDF Author: João Guimarães Rosa
Publisher: Boulevard Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Rosa (1908-1967) was one of the most acclaimed Brazilian writers of the 20th century, exploring the twisting frontiers between 'white man' and Indio, human and animal kind, city and backwoods life, madness and sanity, all themes that he examined with unflagging originality of throughout and language. This paperback original contains entirely new translations of his best pieces.

The Jaguar and Other Stories

The Jaguar and Other Stories PDF Author: João Guimarães Rosa
Publisher: Boulevard Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Book Description
Rosa (1908-1967) was one of the most acclaimed Brazilian writers of the 20th century, exploring the twisting frontiers between 'white man' and Indio, human and animal kind, city and backwoods life, madness and sanity, all themes that he examined with unflagging originality of throughout and language. This paperback original contains entirely new translations of his best pieces.

The Devil to Pay in the Backlands

The Devil to Pay in the Backlands PDF Author: João Guimarães Rosa
Publisher: New York : Knopf
ISBN:
Category : Brazilian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 522

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A NOVEL OF NORTHERN BRAZIL BY ONE OF THE LEADING BRAZILIAN AUTHORS.

The Third Bank of the River and Other Stories

The Third Bank of the River and Other Stories PDF Author: João Guimarães Rosa
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781777130428
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 262

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A reissue of Barbara Shelby Merello's 1968 English translation of João Guimarães Rosa's 'Primeiras Estórias, ' with the short stories restored to Rosa's original order.

Fictional Environments

Fictional Environments PDF Author: Victoria Saramago
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810142619
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 354

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Finalist, 2022 ASLE Ecocritical Book Award Fictional Environments: Mimesis, Deforestation, and Development in Latin America investigates how fictional works have become sites for the production of knowledge, imagination, and intervention in Latin American environments. It investigates the dynamic relationship between fictional images and real places, as the lasting representations of forests, rural areas, and deserts in novels clash with collective perceptions of changes like deforestation and urbanization. From the backlands of Brazil to a developing Rio de Janeiro, and from the rainforests of Venezuela and Peru to the Mexican countryside, rapid deforestation took place in Latin America in the second half of the twentieth century. How do fictional works and other cultural objects dramatize, resist, and intervene in these ecological transformations? Through analyses of work by João Guimarães Rosa, Alejo Carpentier, Juan Rulfo, Clarice Lispector, and Mario Vargas Llosa, Victoria Saramago shows how novels have inspired conservationist initiatives and offered counterpoints to developmentalist policies, and how environmental concerns have informed the agendas of novelists as essayists, politicians, and public intellectuals. This book seeks to understand the role of literary representation, or mimesis, in shaping, sustaining, and negotiating environmental imaginaries during the deep, ongoing transformations that have taken place from the 1950s to the present.

Modern Brazilian Short Stories

Modern Brazilian Short Stories PDF Author: William L. Grossman
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520027664
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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Ready to Burst

Ready to Burst PDF Author: Franketienne
Publisher: Archipelago
ISBN: 1935744798
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Ready to Burst follows the lives of two young men and their individual attempts to make sense of the deeply troubled society surrounding them. An informed critique of the “brain drain” prompted by the Duvalier dictatorship, Ready to Burst is, in Frankétienne’s words, a portrait of “the extreme bitterness of doom in the face of the blind machinery of power.” Widely recognized as Haiti’s most important literary figure and an outspoken challenger of political oppression, Frankétienne was a candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2009. The New York Times has called Frankétienne “the Father of Haitian Letters.”

What are the Blind Men Dreaming?

What are the Blind Men Dreaming? PDF Author: Noemi Jaffe
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN: 1941920373
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 171

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"This is much more than a survival story. It is the story of how the scars of a woman can be and are passed through generations. It is about being a woman, a mother, and a daughter."—Gabriela Almeida, Continente "An infinite work."—O Estadão de São Paulo A groundbreaking use of storytelling to bear witness to the Holocaust features three generations of women's own voices—Liwia's diary written upon liberation from Auschwitz; daughter Noemi Jaffe exploring the power of memory, survival, and bearing witness; and granddaughter Leda, Noemi's daughter, on the significance of the Holocaust and Jewish identity seventy years after the war.

Loving Nature

Loving Nature PDF Author: Kay Milton
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134525389
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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As the full effects of human activity on Earth's life-support systems are revealed by science, the question of whether we can change, fundamentally, our relationship with nature becomes increasingly urgent. Just as important as an understanding of our environment, is an understanding of ourselves, of the kinds of beings we are and why we act as we do. In Loving Nature Kay Milton considers why some people in Western societies grow up to be nature lovers, actively concerned about the welfare and future of plants, animals, ecosystems and nature in general, while others seem indifferent or intent on destroying these things. Drawing on findings and ideas from anthropology, psychology, cognitive science and philosophy, the author discusses how we come to understand nature as we do, and above all, how we develop emotional commitments to it. Anthropologists, in recent years, have tended to suggest that our understanding of the world is shaped solely by the culture in which we live. Controversially Kay Milton argues that it is shaped by direct experience in which emotion plays an essential role. The author argues that the conventional opposition between emotion and rationality in western culture is a myth. The effect of this myth has been to support a market economy which systematically destroys nature, and to exclude from public decision making the kinds of emotional attachments that support more environmentally sensitive ways of living. A better understanding of ourselves, as fundamentally emotional beings, could give such ways of living the respect they need.

Libre Acceso

Libre Acceso PDF Author: Susan Antebi
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 143845967X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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Analyzes the diverse roles and pervasive presence of disability in Latin American literature and film. Libre Acceso stages an innovative encounter between disciplines that have remained quite separate: Latin American literary, film, and cultural studies and disability studies. It offers a much-needed framework to engage the representation, construction, embodiment, and contestation of human differences, and provides tools for the urgent resignification of a robust and diverse Latin American literary and filmic tradition. The contributors discuss such topics as impairment, trauma, illness and the body, performance, queer theory, subaltern studies, and human rights, while analyzing literature and film from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, and Peru. They explore these issues through the work of canonical figures Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel García Márquez, João Guimarães Rosa, and others, as well as less well-known figures, including Mario Bellatin and Miriam Alves.

Neither Peace Nor Freedom

Neither Peace Nor Freedom PDF Author: Patrick Iber
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674286049
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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Patrick Iber tells the story of left-wing Latin American artists, writers, and scholars who worked as diplomats, advised rulers, opposed dictators, and even led nations during the Cold War. Ultimately, they could not break free from the era’s rigid binaries, and found little room to promote their social democratic ideals without compromising them.