{"product_id":"imagining-brazil-9780739110133","title":"Imagining Brazil","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eImagining Brazil provides a comprehensive and multifaceted picture of Brazil in the age of globalization.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e. . . offers a wide-ranging and inclusive multidisciplinary analysis of Brazil's complex social and political identity. * Perspectives on Politics *\u003cbr\u003eThis collection brings together a wide array of (mostly) Brazilian authors, from various disciplines, who focus on different aspects and moments of Brazilian society, polity, culture and literature....The authors make clear at the outset that their intent was to provide a 'comprehensive and multifaceted picture', and to privilege 'diversity' both in terms of authorship as well as topic coverage, an aim that is broadly acheived. * Latin American Studies *\u003cbr\u003eLike most edited collections, the fourteen essays in this volume are of varying quality and depth, although most of them are very fine contributions. especially to our understanding of intellectuals and ideas in Brazil in the twentieth century. The diverse disciplines of contributors also reflects the breadth and quality of scholars working on Brazil today in Brazilian academia. * Luso-Brazilian Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1 Introduction Part 2 Society and Politics Chapter 3 The Singularity of the Peripheral Social Inequality Chapter 4 Culture, Democracy, and the Formation of the Public Sphere in Brazil Chapter 5 Between Under-Integration and Over-Integration: Not Taking Citizenship Seriously Chapter 6 The Paraguayan War: A Constitutional, Political, and Economic Turning Point for Brazil Chapter 7 Max Weber and the Interpretation of Brazil Chapter 8 Racial Democracy Chapter 9 From Bahia to Brazil: The UNESCO Race Relations Project Part 10 Literature and Culture Chapter 11 Brazilian Cultural Critique: Possible Scenarios of a Pending Debate Chapter 12 The Republic and the Suburb: Literary Imagination and Modernity in Brazil Chapter 13 Identity is the Other Chapter 14 The Relevance of Machado de Assis Chapter 15 From Bossa Nova to Tropicália: Restraint and Excess in Popular Music Chapter 16 Elective Infidelities: Intellectuals and Politics Chapter 17 An Amphibious Literature","brand":"Rlpg\/Galleys","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037399810391,"sku":"9780739110133","price":97.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780739110133.jpg?v=1750935614","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/imagining-brazil-9780739110133","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}