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Author : Valdeck Almeida de Jesus
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2008-06-03
Memories From Brazilian Hell written by Valdeck Almeida de Jesus and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-06-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Most of us will never experience what young Valdeck Almeida de Jesus experienced. From falling into a cesspool and playing among garbage to collecting bones to sell and avoiding snakes on his walk to school, Valdeck recounts his family's hard life day by agonizing day in this moving memoir. Translated from Portuguese, Memories from Brazilian Hell follows Valdeck, his parents, and his seven brothers and sisters as they survived poverty, class and racial marginalization, debilitating health problems, and financial crises while living in the Bahian region of Brazil. Amidst these hardships, they struggled to meet their basic human needs for shelter, food, and medical and dental care. Despite the overwhelming odds, Valdeck and his family spectacularly overcame the obstacles they faced. Without losing faith in the future, despite uncertainty and doubt, every member of the Almeida family achieved his or her goals; each making a mark on the world. As Valdeck's history unfolds, his story becomes one of self-realization, knowledge, and empowerment. Valdeck's memories are infused with hope and illustrate that if anguished Brazilians can believe in their country and be resilient, they can fight for and achieve their ideals. This book gives voice to all those who have suffered society's inequities.
Memories From Brazilian Hell
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Author : Valdeck de Jesus
language : en
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Release Date : 2008-05
Memories From Brazilian Hell written by Valdeck de Jesus and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Most of us will never experience what young Valdeck Almeida de Jesus experienced. From falling into a cesspool and playing among garbage to collecting bones to sell and avoiding snakes on his walk to school, Valdeck recounts his family's hard life day by agonizing day in this moving memoir. Translated from Portuguese, Memories from Brazilian Hell follows Valdeck, his parents, and his seven brothers and sisters as they survived poverty, class and racial marginalization, debilitating health problems, and financial crises while living in the Bahian region of Brazil. Amidst these hardships, they struggled to meet their basic human needs for shelter, food, and medical and dental care. Despite the overwhelming odds, Valdeck and his family spectacularly overcame the obstacles they faced. Without losing faith in the future, despite uncertainty and doubt, every member of the Almeida family achieved his or her goals; each making a mark on the world. As Valdeck's history unfolds, his story becomes one of self-realization, knowledge, and empowerment. Valdeck's memories are infused with hope and illustrate that if anguished Brazilians can believe in their country and be resilient, they can fight for and achieve their ideals. This book gives voice to all those who have suffered society's inequities.
Digital Memory In Brazil
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Author : Leda Balbino
language : en
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Release Date : 2023-06-16
Digital Memory In Brazil written by Leda Balbino and has been published by Emerald Group Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-16 with Social Science categories.
Digital Memory in Brazil draws on the results of three case studies to determine the strategies and practices applied by the Brazilian far-right government of Bolsonaro (2019-2023) to construct a negationist digital memory of the Brazilian dictatorship.
Memorial From Brazilian Hell
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Author : Valdeck Almeida De Jesus
language : en
Publisher: Clube de Autores
Release Date : 2021-01-07
Memorial From Brazilian Hell written by Valdeck Almeida De Jesus and has been published by Clube de Autores this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-07 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Summary Valdeck Almeida de Jesus s Memorial do Inferno: A Saga da Família Almeida no Jardim do Éden, now thankfully translated into English, is a moving memoir of the author s youth, upbringing and early adulthood in his native Bahia. De Jesus s account is important for many reasons, but one of the most significant is its novelty: it is perhaps the first such work of its kind, a nonfictional, autobiographical narrative, written and published in Brazil, by a self-identified black, gay, and working-class Brazilian. It consequently occupies a keystone place at the point where Brazilian, black, LGBTQ and working-class literary traditions intersect. Novelty of topic, however, is only one noteworthy aspect of Memorial do Inferno: it is a vibrant and affecting narrative that does not stint in its portrayal of the struggles—and the attendant joy—that the political and social marginalization and oppression, in the forms of poverty, racism and classism, have imposed upon the vast majority of Brazil s people. The journey that de Jesus makes over his 42 years is one of increasing self-realization, self-knowledge, and self-empowerment. Memorial do Inferno is, then, a work of self-fashioning, in which a young man from a large and impoverished family living in Jequié, in the rural interior of Bahia, one of Brazil s best known and populous states, as well as the one with the largest percentage population of African-descendant people, manages to overcome the odds arrayed against him, eventually pursuing studies for a while in nursing and letters at a state university, before moving to the 450-year-old metropolis and first Brazilian capital of Salvador da Bahia, the Black Rome. One there, de Jesus is able to further his education, mature into adulthood, and launch his literary career, one of whose achievements is this book. The contours of de Jesus s story, whose parallels can be found throughout the annals of literature, are universal. The particularities of his experience, however, are his own, and crucial, given the national literary context, to establishing the memoir s singularity. Brazil s literary traditions span more than 500 years, making them among the oldest in the Americas. Over that period, however, the presence and prominence of African-descendant writers, especially before the late 19th century, has been relatively low, despite the fact that Brazil has had and continues to possess the largest population of people of African descent outside of continental Africa. This stands in contrast, for example, to the United States s literary traditions, to which black writers have made significant contributions since the 18th century and within which they have cumulatively created an internationally recognized literature. In his study Race and Color in Brazilian Literature, David Brookshaw attributes the Brazilian situation to several factors, identifying one of the most important as the absence of overt racial and ethnic segregation in Brazil, unlike in the US, where legalized segregation and oppression over centuries has had the effect of fostering political, social and cultural solidarity and autonomy for black Americans, with one of the results being an autonomous black literature (Brookshaw, 1986, 175-176). Brookshaw also notes that in Brazil, the related concept of racial democracy has been mobilized to downplay or hide racism, racial supremacy and the attendant ideology of social and cultural whitening (branqueamento), and structural racial discrimination, all of which have combined to disadvantage Afrobrazilians in political, economic and social terms, with the result that the absence or exclusion of black writers did not provoke much commentary, including from some of Brazil s most important African-descendant writers, such as the late 19th century literary titan Machado de Assis, until this century. While black writers are now recognized participants in the development Brazil s literary traditions, their prominence relative to the size of the Brazilian African-descendant population remains small. With Brazilian queer literature, which emerged as a distinct category in the latter half of the 20th century (though one of the foundational texts in this tradition, Bom Crioulo, by Adolfo Caminha, appeared as far back as 1895, and a mixed-race queer writer like Mário de Andrade played a foundational role in 20th century Brazilian Modernism), specifically during the period of the political opening, or abertura, in the latter years of the military dictatorship (1978-1984), the absence of African-descendant writers is conspicuous. In his discussion of the writings of the late Gaúcho writer, Caio Fernando Abreu, critic Fernando Arenas lists the important male Brazilian prose writers and poets who have dealt overtly with homosexual or bisexual themes. A study of his list reveals that only a few of these writers, such as the poet Valdo Motta, are black or of self-identified African descent (Arenas, in Canty Quinlan and Arenas, 2002, p. 235). It is probably adequate to say for now, though the situation will certainly change, that the pool of texts in all genres by out lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Brazilian people of African descent remains small, for many of the same reasons as those detailed above, with the added factors of gender and sexuality. An additional factor that should not be overlooked is class: De Jesus s narrative makes clear his family s and his own financial difficulties, the hell of poverty and purgatory of marginality, and he goes some way towards situating these facts within the larger historical and social contexts of Brazilian life touched upon above. De Jesus s memoir thus fills a gap in terms of Brazilian writing, giving voice to those who have not been listened to before; the book s social and political impact, then, mirror its evident aesthetic achievement. I want to register a final note, which is that the first portion of the book s Portuguese title loses a little something in English: Memorial do Inferno literally translates to Memorial of the Inferno, but the memorial signifies both a commemoration, with the various resonances of that term, of a life passed (successfully) and perhaps past, and simultaneously invokes, I think, its English cognate, the genre of memoir, or a nonfictional, textual remembering, a piecing together. The text, in both its Portuguese original and English translation, possesses aspects of both these connotations, echoing in prose form de Jesus s elegiac volume of poetry, Heartache Poems: A Brazilian Gay Man Coming Out from the Closet, which he published in 2004 in English first, to expand his potential readership. (It was through this volume that I first came to know his work.) The inferno of the title brings to mind not only Judeo-Christian theology and Dante s masterwork, but also translates more broadly and figuratively as hell, a term which de Jesus inflects throughout the book. The ultimate note one leaves with, however, is not of the hellish, of suffering or pain, but of personal triumph. These are the life notes of a lover of knowledge, of the arts, of life itself, who has transformed the difficulties of his past into the foundation on which he is building his future. Or to quote de Jesus s poem from the Heartbreak volume, I Am Nothing : I am not so small after all. References Almeida de Jesus, Valdeck. Heartache Poems: A Brazilian Gay Man Coming Out from the Closet. New York: iUniverse, 2004. Brookshaw, David. Race and Color in Brazilian Literature. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, NJ, 1986. Canty Quinlan, Susan and Fernando Arenas, editors. Lusosex: Gender and Sexuality in the Portuguese-Speaking World. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002. González Echeverría, Roberto and Enrique Pupo-Walker. The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature. Vol. 3: Brazilian Literature, Bibliographies. Edited by Roberto González Echevarría and Enrique Pupo-Walker. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Green, James. Beyond Carnival: Male Homosexuality in Twentieth-century Brazil. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1999. Author John Keene is an author and translator, and Associate Professor of English and African American Studies at Northwestern University.
Saudades Brazilian Family Memories From Monarchy To Millennium
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Author : Annita Clark-Weaver
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-12-12
Saudades Brazilian Family Memories From Monarchy To Millennium written by Annita Clark-Weaver and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-12 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Saudades preserves an account of the tumultuous transition of Brazil from 1868, when it was a monarchy and slavery was still legal, into the modern state it is today, told through the lives and observations of two women: Chiquita, a Brazilian, and her granddaughter Annita. Chiquita's stories are expanded as Annita explores the culture of past and present Brazil through the stories of her family, and the old w0men she meets in her grandmother's small Brazilian town. The book deals honestly with issues of race, religion, gender, and most of all, cultural duality. The Brazilian landscape, family life, and Chiquita's husband's work as founder of the YMCA in Latin America comprise important features of Saudades.
Memory S Turn
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Author : Rebecca J. Atencio
language : en
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
Release Date : 2014-06-25
Memory S Turn written by Rebecca J. Atencio and has been published by University of Wisconsin Pres this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-25 with History categories.
The first book to trace Brazil's reckoning with dictatorship through the collision of politics and cultural production.
Final Stop Brazil Life After Hell
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Author : Rita Embalo
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2011-10-24
Final Stop Brazil Life After Hell written by Rita Embalo and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-24 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Unexpectedly Rita survives, building a strong will to stay alive. With help of some inmates she can make it through the hell of Aruja. But the grief over her son keeps throwing her into deep depressions. Her soul is ill and so becomes her body. Even though it is the living hell she learns real friendship and people caring for one another. Then new hope arises by the transfer to the State prison of Säo Paulo where she has the opportunity to work and study. But first she has to stay with all other new inmates in the Estágio, the isolation from other prisoners. Here Rita learns that this place is not like Aruja and has to cope with terror, jealousy and hatred of others. Constant bad news about her son are bringing her more down than she already is. After moving to another cell she begins to work but it is not what she expected. Beside her work she has to cope now with every day terror inside the cell. Soon she realizes that nothing here is better than Aruja, contrary, it is far worse....
The Memory Illusion
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Author : Dr Julia Shaw
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2016-06-16
The Memory Illusion written by Dr Julia Shaw and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-16 with Psychology categories.
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Truly fascinating.' Steve Wright, BBC Radio 2 - Have you ever forgotten the name of someone you’ve met dozens of times? - Or discovered that your memory of an important event was completely different from everyone else’s? - Or vividly recalled being in a particular place at a particular time, only to discover later that you couldn’t possibly have been? We rely on our memories every day of our lives. They make us who we are. And yet the truth is, they are far from being the accurate record of the past we like to think they are. In The Memory Illusion, forensic psychologist and memory expert Dr Julia Shaw draws on the latest research to show why our memories so often play tricks on us – and how, if we understand their fallibility, we can actually improve their accuracy. The result is an exploration of our minds that both fascinating and unnerving, and that will make you question how much you can ever truly know about yourself. Think you have a good memory? Think again. 'A spryly paced, fun, sometimes frightening exploration of how we remember – and why everyone remembers things that never truly happened.' Pacific Standard
Selective Memory
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Author : Paulo V. de Castro
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2016-04-20
Selective Memory written by Paulo V. de Castro and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-20 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Its nothing new that life is full of surprises, but learning from them and taking advantage of them to the best of your ability is an art in itself. In these pages, you will find a simple and inspirational story about life, love, and acceptance. From an unadorned life of a teenager, complete with insecurities, to a youthful existence where the insecurities dissolve and new challenges arise. In the middle of this journey, an unexpected event occurred that altered the course of his life. This unforeseen incident had ultimately intensified his will to live, love, and be happy! A declaration of self-love. Why not? This is the story of Paulo Castro (Paulinho) in his own perspective. It contains a special light that bestows on us a life lesson and the realization that everything is always worth it. Especially when you have a very selective memory!
Fragmentation In Sleep And Mind Linking Dissociative Symptoms Sleep And Memory
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Author : Sue Llewellyn
language : en
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Release Date : 2018-03-27
Fragmentation In Sleep And Mind Linking Dissociative Symptoms Sleep And Memory written by Sue Llewellyn and has been published by Frontiers Media SA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-27 with categories.
Fragmented, dissociated consciousness can characterize the mind in both wake and sleep states. Dissociative symptoms, during sleep, include vivid dreaming, nightmares, and alterations in objective sleep parameters (e.g., lengthening of REM sleep). During waking hours, dissociative symptoms exhibit disparate characteristics encompassing memory problems, excessive daydreaming, absentmindedness, and impairments and discontinuities in perceptions of the self, identity, and the environment. Llewellyn has theorized that a progressive and enduring de-differentiation of wake and dream states of consciousness eventually results in schizophrenia; a lesser degree of de-differentiation may have implications for dissociative symptoms. Against a background of de-differentiation between the dream and wake states, the papers in this volume link consciousness, memory, and mental illness with a special interest for dissociative symptoms.