Research Catalog
Brazil and the Dialectic of Colonization
- Title
- Brazil and the Dialectic of Colonization [electronic resource] / Alfredo Bosi ; translated by Robert Patrick Newcomb.
- Author
- Bosi, Alfredo, 1936-
- Publication
- Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2015
- Urbana [Illinois] : University of Illinois Press, [2015]
Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (1 PDF (xiv, 373 pages) :) : illustrations.
- Summary
- A classic of Brazilian literary criticism and historiography, Brazil and the Dialectic of Colonization explores the unique character of Brazil from its colonial beginnings to its emergence as a modern nation. This translation presents the thought of Alfredo Bosi, one of contemporary Brazil's leading intellectuals, to an English-speaking audience. Portugal extracted wealth from its Brazilian colony. Slaves--first indigenous peoples, later Africans--mined its ore and cut its sugarcane. From the customs of the colonists and the aspirations of the enslaved rose Brazil. Bosi scrutinizes signal points in the creation of Brazilian culture--the plays and poetry, the sermons of missionaries and Jesuit priests, the Indian novels of Jose de Alencar and the Voices of Africa of poet Castro Alves. His portrait of the country's response to the pressures of colonial conformity offers a groundbreaking appraisal of Brazilian culture as it emerged from the tensions between imposed colonial control and the African and Amerindian cults--including the Catholic-influenced ones--that resisted it.
- Uniform Title
- Dialetica da colonização. English (Online)
- Book collections on Project MUSE.
- Alternative Title
- Dialetica da colonização.
- Subject
- Note
- Translation of Dialetica da colonização.
- Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on print version record.
- Contents
- Author's note to the North American edition -- 1. Colony, cult, and culture -- 2. Anchieta, or the crossed arrows of the sacred -- 3. From our former state to the mercantile machine -- 4. Vieira, or the cross of inequality -- 5. Antonil, or the tears of trade goods -- 6. A sacrificial myth: Alencar's Indianism -- 7. Slavery between two liberalisms -- 8. Under the sign of ham -- 9. The archeology of the welfare state -- 10. Brazilian culture and Brazilian cultures -- Postscript to "Brazilian culture and Brazilian cultures" (1992) -- A retrospective glance -- Epilogue (2001).
- OCLC
- ssj0001546484
- Author
- Bosi, Alfredo, 1936-
- Title
- Brazil and the Dialectic of Colonization [electronic resource] / Alfredo Bosi ; translated by Robert Patrick Newcomb.
- Imprint
- Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2015 (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)Urbana [Illinois] : University of Illinois Press, [2015] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
- Series
- Book collections on Project MUSE.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Newcomb, Robert Patrick.Project Muse.
- Other Form:
- Print version: (DLC) 2015944265 9780252039300