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Bosi, Alfredo

 
9780252080845: Brazil and the Dialectic of Colonization (Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies Series)
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ISBN 10: 025208084X ISBN 13: 9780252080845
Editorial: University of Illinois Press, 2015

Sinopsis

A classic of Brazilian literary criticism and historiography, Brazil and the Dialectic of Colonization explores the unique character of Brazil from its colonial beginnings to its emergence as a modern nation. This translation presents the thought of Alfredo Bosi, one of contemporary Brazil's leading intellectuals, to an English-speaking audience.

Portugal extracted wealth from its Brazilian colony. Slaves--first indigenous peoples, later Africans--mined its ore and cut its sugarcane. From the customs of the colonists and the aspirations of the enslaved rose Brazil. Bosi scrutinizes signal points in the creation of Brazilian culture--the plays and poetry, the sermons of missionaries and Jesuit priests, the Indian novels of JosÉ de Alencar and the Voices of Africa of poet Castro Alves. His portrait of the country's response to the pressures of colonial conformity offers a groundbreaking appraisal of Brazilian culture as it emerged from the tensions between imposed colonial control and the African and Amerindian cults--including the Catholic-influenced ones--that resisted it.

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Alfredo Bosi is the director of the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of São Paolo. He is the author of A Concise History of Brazilian Literature. Robert Patrick Newcomb is an associate professor of Luso-Brazilian studies at the University of California-Davis.

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Editorial
University of Illinois Press
Año de publicación
2015
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
025208084X
ISBN 13 
9780252080845
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Número de páginas
392
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Editorial: University of Illinois Press, 2015
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