Download or read book Literature and Ethics in Contemporary Brazil written by Vinicius Mariano De Carvalho and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-02-24 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction: On Behalf of the "Here and Now"--1 2013 Frankfurt Book Fair's Speech -- 2 Brazilian Contemporary Fiction and the Representation of Poverty -- 3 Memorials of Words: The Victim in Brazilian Literature -- 4 Deciphered Brazil and Enigma Brazil: Notes on Social Exclusion and Violence in Contemporary Brazilian Literature -- 5 Journeys of Resistance in Afro-Brazilian Literature: The Case of Conceição Evaristo -- 6 Growing Up to Human Rights: The Bildungsroman and the Discourse of Human Rights in Um defeito de cor -- 7 Narrating other Perspectives, Re-Drawing History: The Protagonization of Afro-Brazilians in the Work of Graphic Novelist Marcelo d'Salete -- 8 Neither Here nor There: Unsettling Encounters in Paulo Scott's Habitante irreal -- 9 Can't You Hear My Call?: The Guarani Kaiowá Letter and the Right to Land and Literature in Brazil -- 10 In Search of a New Invisibility -- 11 Revisions of Masculinity under Dictatorship: Gabeira, Caio and Noll -- 12 Testimonial Performance: Fictions of the Real in Contemporary Art -- 13 Lyrical Guides to the Peripheries of Rio de Janeiro: Two Historical Moments -- 14 Nicolas Behr's Futuristic braxília and the Critical Reinvention of Brasiliensidade (brasília-em-cidade) -- 15 The Night Explodes in the Cities: Three Hypotheses about Vinagre: uma antologia de poetas neobarracos -- List of Contributors -- Index