Brazil Imagined: 1500 to the Present

Acknowledgments

ac k now l e d gm e n ts I was fortunate to receive a number of grants from Indiana University to support the research and writing of this book. I want to thank the President ’s Office for an Arts and Humanities Research Award and the College of Arts and Sciences for an Arts and Humanities Institute Fellowship, both of which provided me with time away from teaching. A New Perspectives Grant from the Office of the Vice Provost for Research and a second College of Arts and Humanities Institute grant supported a research trip to Brazil in 2005. In Brazil I gave lectures on “the Good Neighbor Brazil” at the Universidade de São Paulo and the Universidade Federal Fluminense in Rio and received valuable feedback from colleagues and students there that contributed to my development of Chapter Six in this volume. I wish to thank Professors Esther Hamburger and João Luiz Vieira for inviting me to speakattheiruniversities.MyformerIndianaUniversitycolleagueSilviano Santiago brought to my attention important contemporary sources on the colonial imaginary, and I want to thank him for his advice and friendship. While I was in São Paulo, journalist Leila Gouvêa invited me to an exhibit at the Ateliê Amarelo, where I was fortunate to meet artist Vinicius Berton, who allowed me to represent one of his works in this book. The Rio artist Laerte de Sousa was equally generous in allowing me to include his work in this study. I am also grateful to Carmen Teixeira, who has been a great help whenever I visit the Cinemateca Brasileira in São Paulo. Although not as exciting as places like Rio or São Paulo, Bloomington, the home of Indiana University, does have the world-renowned Lilly Library . The Charles R. Boxer and Bernardo Mendel collections there contain rare materials on Brazil, some of which are reproduced in this volume. It was a privilege to teach a course on images of Brazil in the Lilly in 2004, and I want to thank librarian Becky Cape for her knowledge and wit and for taking time out of her busy schedule to talk to my students about the Brasiliana materials. Having a pied-a-terre a few blocks from The Newberry Library in Chicago has been a joy, and I was fortunate to discover in the x | brazil imagined William B. Greenlee and Edward E. Ayer collections there additional rare materials, including the little-known Frankfurt edition of Hans Staden’s 1557 account of his captivity in Brazil. Throughout the writing of the book, my longtime colleague and friend Heitor Martins shared with me his encyclopedic knowledge of Brazil, especially in the areas of literature and broadcast and print journalism. There are no words to thank him adequately for his time, counsel, and good fellowship . My colleague Juan Manuel Soto provided me with vital technical support, and I appreciate his time and efforts. Fellow Brazilianist Jon Tolman graciously allowed me to reproduce images from a Brasiliana collection that originated in the Latin American and Iberian Institute at the University of New Mexico. Finally, James Naremore encouraged me from the beginning to the end of this project, reading everything that I wrote and providing scholarly critique and editorial advice, all the while being the best companion in life a gal could ever have. b raz i l i magi n e d THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK ...