A Col Nia Brasilianista

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An Episode In The Life Of A Landscape Painter

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Author : César Aira
language : en
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Release Date : 2006-05-25

An Episode In The Life Of A Landscape Painter written by César Aira and has been published by New Directions Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-05-25 with Fiction categories.

An astounding novel from Argentina that is a meditation on the beautiful and the grotesque in nature, the art of landscape painting, and one experience in a man's life that became a lightning rod for inspiration. An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter is the story of a moment in the life of the German artist Johan Moritz Rugendas (1802-1858). Greatly admired as a master landscape painter, he was advised by Alexander von Humboldt to travel West from Europe to record the spectacular landscapes of Chile, Argentina, and Mexico. Rugendas did in fact become one of the best of the nineteenth-century European painters to venture into Latin America. However this is not a biography of Rugendas. This work of fiction weaves an almost surreal history around the secret objective behind Rugendas' trips to America: to visit Argentina in order to achieve in art the "physiognomic totality" of von Humboldt's scientific vision of the whole. Rugendas is convinced that only in the mysterious vastness of the immense plains will he find true inspiration. A brief and dramatic visit to Mendosa gives him the chance to fulfill his dream. From there he travels straight out onto the pampas, praying for that impossible moment, which would come only at an immense pricean almost monstrously exorbitant price that would ultimately challenge his drawing and force him to create a new way of making art. A strange episode that he could not avoid absorbing savagely into his own body interrupts the trip and irreversibly and explosively marks him for life.

History Of Brazil

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Author : Robert Southey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1810

History Of Brazil written by Robert Southey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1810 with categories.

Imperial Migrations

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Author : E. Morier-Genoud
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2012-12-15

Imperial Migrations written by E. Morier-Genoud and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-15 with Political Science categories.

This volume investigates what role colonial communities and diaspora have had in shaping the Portuguese empire and its heritage, exploring topics such as Portuguese migration to Africa, the Ismaili and the Swiss presence in Mozambique, the Goanese in East Africa, the Chinese in Brazil, and the history of the African presence in Portugal.

Transnational Challenges To National History Writing

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Author : M. Middell
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Release Date : 2015-07-06

Transnational Challenges To National History Writing written by M. Middell and has been published by Palgrave Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-06 with History categories.

This collection of essays argues that there is an pre-history, that is, a longer tradition of the transnationalization of historical culture and historical science. It seeks to substantiate the claim that history writing reflected the globality of its time as much as followed the nationalization of the societies in which it was produced.

Warfare State

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Author : James T. Sparrow
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2011-05-01

Warfare State written by James T. Sparrow and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-01 with History categories.

Although common wisdom and much scholarship assume that "big government" gained its foothold in the United States under the auspices of the New Deal during the Great Depression, in fact it was the Second World War that accomplished this feat. Indeed, as the federal government mobilized for war it grew tenfold, quickly dwarfing the New Deal's welfare programs. Warfare State shows how the federal government vastly expanded its influence over American society during World War II. Equally important, it looks at how and why Americans adapted to this expansion of authority. Through mass participation in military service, war work, rationing, price control, income taxation, and the war bond program, ordinary Americans learned to live with the warfare state. They accepted these new obligations because the government encouraged all citizens to think of themselves as personally connected to the battle front, linking their every action to the fate of the combat soldier. As they worked for the American Soldier, Americans habituated themselves to the authority of the government. Citizens made their own counter-claims on the state-particularly in the case of industrial workers, women, African Americans, and most of all, the soldiers. Their demands for fuller citizenship offer important insights into the relationship between citizen morale, the uses of patriotism, and the legitimacy of the state in wartime. World War II forged a new bond between citizens, nation, and government. Warfare State tells the story of this dramatic transformation in American life.

The Colours Of The Empire

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Author : Patrícia Ferraz de Matos
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2013-02-01

The Colours Of The Empire written by Patrícia Ferraz de Matos and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-01 with Social Science categories.

The Portuguese Colonial Empire established its base in Africa in the fifteenth century and would not be dissolved until 1975. This book investigates how the different populations under Portuguese rule were represented within the context of the Colonial Empire by examining the relationship between these representations and the meanings attached to the notion of ‘race’. Colour, for example, an apparently objective criterion of classification, became a synonym or near-synonym for ‘race’, a more abstract notion for which attempts were made to establish scientific credibility. Through her analysis of government documents, colonial propaganda materials and interviews, the author employs an anthropological perspective to examine how the existence of racist theories, originating in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, went on to inform the policy of the Estado Novo (Second Republic, 1933–1974) and the production of academic literature on ‘race’ in Portugal. This study provides insight into the relationship between the racist formulations disseminated in Portugal and the racist theories produced from the eighteenth century onward in Europe and beyond.

Crow Blue

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Author : Adriana Lisboa
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2013-01-01

Crow Blue written by Adriana Lisboa and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-01 with Fiction categories.

The latest novel from a rising star of Brazilian literature, Crow Blue spins a far-reaching story of the search for one's roots.

Toward An Intellectual History Of Black Women

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Author : Mia E. Bay
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2015-04-13

Toward An Intellectual History Of Black Women written by Mia E. Bay and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-13 with Social Science categories.

Despite recent advances in the study of black thought, black women intellectuals remain often neglected. This collection of essays by fifteen scholars of history and literature establishes black women's places in intellectual history by engaging the work of writers, educators, activists, religious leaders, and social reformers in the United States, Africa, and the Caribbean. Dedicated to recovering the contributions of thinkers marginalized by both their race and their gender, these essays uncover the work of unconventional intellectuals, both formally educated and self-taught, and explore the broad community of ideas in which their work participated. The end result is a field-defining and innovative volume that addresses topics ranging from religion and slavery to the politicized and gendered reappraisal of the black female body in contemporary culture. Contributors are Mia E. Bay, Judith Byfield, Alexandra Cornelius, Thadious Davis, Corinne T. Field, Arlette Frund, Kaiama L. Glover, Farah J. Griffin, Martha S. Jones, Natasha Lightfoot, Sherie Randolph, Barbara D. Savage, Jon Sensbach, Maboula Soumahoro, and Cheryl Wall.

Hotel Tr Pico

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Author : Jerry Dávila
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2010-08-03

Hotel Tr Pico written by Jerry Dávila and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-03 with History categories.

In the wake of African decolonization, Brazil attempted to forge connections with newly independent countries. In the early 1960s it launched an effort to establish diplomatic ties with Africa; in the 1970s it undertook trade campaigns to open African markets to Brazilian technology. Hotel Trópico reveals the perceptions, particularly regarding race, of the diplomats and intellectuals who traveled to Africa on Brazil’s behalf. Jerry Dávila analyzes how their actions were shaped by ideas of Brazil as an emerging world power, ready to expand its sphere of influence; of Africa as the natural place to assert that influence, given its historical slave-trade ties to Brazil; and of twentieth-century Brazil as a “racial democracy,” a uniquely harmonious mix of races and cultures. While the experiences of Brazilian policymakers and diplomats in Africa reflected the logic of racial democracy, they also exposed ruptures in this interpretation of Brazilian identity. Did Brazil share a “lusotropical” identity with Portugal and its African colonies, so that it was bound to support Portuguese colonialism at the expense of Brazil’s ties with African nations? Or was Brazil a country of “Africans of every color,” compelled to support decolonization in its role as a natural leader in the South Atlantic? Drawing on interviews with retired Brazilian diplomats and intellectuals, Dávila shows the Brazilian belief in racial democracy to be about not only race but also Portuguese ethnicity.

The Prism Of Race

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Author : David Lehmann
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2018-07-12

The Prism Of Race written by David Lehmann and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-12 with Political Science categories.

How race quotas--and their public perception--reflect Brazil's complicated history with racial injustice