Becoming Brazil : : New Fiction, Poetry, and Memoir / / ed. by Eric M. B. Becker, Frank Stewart, Noah Perales-Estoesta.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2018
• MitwirkendeR: Alphonsus, João,; Azevedo, Carlito,; Beber, Bruna,; Brum, Eliane,; Calixto, Fabiano,; Ducaso, Ruth,; Evaristo, Conceição,; Fernando Abreu, Caio,; França Castro, Marcílio,; Fux, Jacques,; Guimarães Rosa, João,; Hatoum, Milton,; Ivo, Lêdo,; Kersley, Sarah Rebecca,; Komatsu, Henrique Yuichi,; Krausz, Luis S.,; Maca, Nelson,; Maranhão, Salgado,; Minas, Alan,; Paiva, Marcelo Rubens,; Passos, José Luiz,; Prata, Antonio,; Ramos, Graciliano,; Rocha, Flávia,; Rubião, Murilo,; Veiga, José J.,; de Araújo, Flávio,
• HerausgeberIn: Becker, Eric M. B.,; Perales-Estoesta, Noah,; Stewart, Frank,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2019]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Mānoa ; 33
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (216 p.) :; 14 b&w illustrations

When Dom Pedro I declared Brazilian independence in September 1822, he could not have known that the newly liberated country would one day become a nation of 200 million citizens. Becoming Brazil: New Fiction, Poetry, and Memoir presents writing by and about the vibrant people of this fascinatingly diverse and rapidly changing country. Although Brazil is by far the largest and most populous nation in South America—with approximately the same landmass as the US—Brazilian literature, art, and culture are little known in countries where Portuguese is not spoken. But within Brazil, contemporary artists and writers are creating a culture that is both cosmopolitan and inclusive of the nation’s diverse regions, customs, and dialects. Becoming Brazil includes works by canonical twentieth-century Brazilian writers, innovative contemporary authors, and new voices, many of them in translation for the first time. The volume also includes stunning black and white images by Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Editor’s Note -- Garopaba Mon Amour -- Whale Fishing -- Five Poems -- Three Poems -- Seven Poems -- Burial of the Poor -- Two Poems -- Borderline -- Seven Stories -- Sunday Dress -- Ana Davenga -- Antitherapies -- The Darkest of Places -- Three Poems -- Three Poems -- Dead Time -- Desert -- Take It Easy, Brother! -- The Phoenix -- The Dionti Family -- I’m Still Here -- The Lonely Sailor -- Three Crônicas -- St. Bernardo -- Four Poems -- Infamous -- The Blockade -- The Erstwhile Magician of Minhota Tavern -- The Pyrotechnist Zacharias -- When the Earth Was Round -- About the Contributors -- About the Photographers -- Permissions