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- The Triumph of Brazilian Modernism: The Metanarrative of Emancipation and Counter-Narratives
- Book
- 2017
- Published by: The University of North Carolina Press
- Series: North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures
summary
The Triumph of Brazilian Modernism studies the first steps of the movement in Brazil and some of its texts. Its first part explains how modernists produced a meta-discourse that legitimized their own work, and how state cultural policies assured their canonization by disseminating overviews, anthologies, and histories of Brazilian Modernism throughout the educational system. From the 1950s onwards, Brazilian criticism and historiography incorporated many of these self-legitimizing arguments into a totalizing narrative of triumph and maturity of Brazilian literary expression.
The second part looks at aspects of Brazilian Modernism that were overlooked by this totalizing narrative. Its three chapters examine the ambiguous relationship with modernity expressed in themes of Paulista identity and hegemony in the works of Paulo Prado, Mario de Andrade, and Oswald de Andrade.
The second part looks at aspects of Brazilian Modernism that were overlooked by this totalizing narrative. Its three chapters examine the ambiguous relationship with modernity expressed in themes of Paulista identity and hegemony in the works of Paulo Prado, Mario de Andrade, and Oswald de Andrade.
Table of Contents
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- Introduction
- pp. 13-30
- Part One: The Metanarrative of Emancipatio
- Part Two: Counter-Narratives
- Conclusion
- pp. 263-270
- Works Cited
- pp. 271-280
Additional Information
ISBN
9781469637822
Related ISBN(s)
9781469609997
MARC Record
OCLC
1080549125
Pages
298
Launched on MUSE
2019-01-02
Language
English
Open Access
No