Brazil is paradise; everyone knows that. European explorers of the region praised its exuberant greenery and natural abundance, and some even imagined themselves to be honing in on the Garden of Eden. During the 20th century, nationalist discourses of mesticagem and brasileridade proclaimed Brazil a perfectly blended racial and cultural utopia. Effective in creating a homogeneous national identity spanning cultural and geographical diversity, the official discourse of Brazil as a natural, racial and cultural paradise also implied the marginalization of anyone (or anywhere) that did not conform to its designs. The rebellious nature and cultural wilds of places like the interior Sertoes of Northeastern Brazil, Mato Grosso and the Amazon Basin embodied a challenge to national definition. Largely unmapped, demarcated only cursorily, they were in Brazil, but they were not Brazil. This presentation traces the formation of an early 20th century Brazilian literature of ecological otherness that frequently represents environmental and cultural difference not only as abjection, but also as a threat to the modern nation.
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In this opening event of the symposium, a group of contemporary Brazilian writers and translators and scholars of Brazilian literature discuss currents in poetry, fiction, essays, and song lyrics from the city of Salvador (Bahia). With novelist Helena Parente Cunha (Woman Between Mirrors), poet Lande Onawale (O vento), scholar Earl Fitz (Vanderbilt University), translator Gregory Rabassa (translator of Jorge Amado, Clarice Lispector, and others), and critic Peggy Sharpe (moderator) (Florida State University).
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Musician and scholar Jose Miguel Wisnik, with guitarist and writer Arthur Nestrovski, combined their academic, musical, and literary skills to create a blend between the classroom and the stage. The event showcased songs representative of the Brazilian songbook, including Vinicius de Moraes' "A Felicidade" and Caetano Veloso's "Pecado Original." Wisnik and Nestrovski incorporated literature and history to guide the audience through the formation of Brazilian music, the transforming powers of Bossa Nova and Tropicalismo, and the status of popular song within mass culture. This event was sponsored by the University of Chicago's Center for Latin American Studies. April 17, 2012
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My First Project
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This counterpoint to the Bahia panel (November 10) features contemporary Brazilian writers and translators and scholars of Brazilian literature, who will discuss currents in poetry, fiction, essays and song lyrics from the city of Rio de Janeiro. With novelists João Paulo Cuenca (Corpo presente) and Ana Maria Machado (Tropical sol da liberdade), and literary critics Elizabeth Lowe (moderator) (University of Illinois, Urbana), Charles Perrone (University of Florida at Gainesville), and Nelson Vieira (Brown University).
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II Brazilian Literary Festival - video 6
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II Brazilian Literary Festival - video 12
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II Brazilian Literary Festival - video 8
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II Brazilian Literary Festival - video 2
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II Brazilian Literary Festival - video 7
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II Brazilian Literary Festival - video 5
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II Brazilian Literary Festival - video 4
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II Brazilian Literary Festival - video 11
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II Brazilian Literary Festival - video 10
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II Brazilian Literary Festival - video 9
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The Tunnel is the first collaboration started in 2005 between the Brazilian visual artist César Meneghetti and the poet Carlos Nejar, one of the few Brazilian writers to be nominated for the Literature Nobel prize in 2001. This work is also the first of a new series of intersemiotic videos by Meneghetti. The Tunnel is also a metaphor used very frequently in his work and making the video were a natural consequence. The Tunnel were first presented at the 51 Venice Biennale, Isle of poetry curated by Achille Bonito Oliva and in the tramonto latinoamericano event curated by Antonio Arevalo.
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BrazilNYC interviews Domicio Cutinho, the President and co-founder of the Brazilian Cultural Center in New York City. Domicio speaks here about the Brazilian Library in New York City, and incites New Yorkers of all backgrounds to use the space.
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This counterpoint to the Bahia panel (November 10) features contemporary Brazilian writers and translators and scholars of Brazilian literature, who will discuss currents in poetry, fiction, essays and song lyrics from the city of Rio de Janeiro. With novelists João Paulo Cuenca (Corpo presente) and Ana Maria Machado (Tropical sol da liberdade), and literary critics Elizabeth Lowe (moderator) (University of Illinois, Urbana), Charles Perrone (University of Florida at Gainesville), and Nelson Vieira (Brown University).
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This is the result of a project in Audiovisual media for the bachelor's degree in Communication with enphasis in Editorial Production at Anhembi Morumbi University in São Paulo, Brazil (2011). 'Espelho D'Água' ( in English: Water Mirror) is a short movie based on the poem 'A Meditação sobre o Tietê' by Mário de Andrade, a renowed figure that engaged the Modernism moviment in brazilian literature. This poem was written only 13 days before his heart suddenly stopped beating, but only posthumously published in 'Lira Paulistana' (1945). A criterious analysis of the poem was made in order to allow us to identify the concepts behind the poet's words and were essential to translate words into an audiovisual product. The elements we based ourselves on were: water, mirror (and also all the thoughts, metaphors and comparisons with the poet himself to Tietê's river), night (hopelessness, soul and darkness) and the conflict of the poem's main chacarcter. Mário de Andrade loved São Paulo city very passionately, but also hated it in the end, mainly because of the course that politics was taking. These feelings were evoked to the short movie's main character called Prestes, a systems analyst, who after an unexpected announcement, starts to think deeply about his choices, mistakes, all his ommissions and eventually the course that his life has taken. The base scenes were recorded with a Nokia N95 cellphone. The techinique used was digital rotoscoping, in which frames were worked in Adobe ...
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