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  • Chico Buarque's First Chico Buarque

    by Professor Charles A. Perrone ...
    Series series 33 1/3 Brazil
    Chico Buarque comprises a critical appreciation of the self-titled album (1978), which is one of the Brazilian artist's most representative. This vibrant collection displays the singer-songwriter's singular talents as a composer/poet of songs with both popular appeal and keen analytical skills. The 11 tracks include both up-beat sambas and lyrical compositions: witty tunes, dramatic laments, ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Transpoetic Exchange

    Haroldo de Campos, Octavio Paz, and Other Multiversal Dialogues

    by Marília Librandi, Jamille Pinheiro Dias, Tom Winterbottom, Enrico Mario Santí, João Adolfo Hansen, Marjorie Perloff, Antonio Cicero, Luiz Costa-Lima0, Odile Cisneros1, Charles A. Perrone2, Kenneth David Jackson3, Benedito Nunes4, Jerome Rothenberg5, Keijiro Suga6, André Vallias7, Charles Bernstein8 ...
    Series series Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory
    Transpoetic Exchange illuminates the poetic interactions between Octavio Paz (1914-1998) and Haroldo de Campos (1929-2003) from three perspectives--comparative, theoretical, and performative. The poem Blanco by Octavio Paz, written when he was ambassador to India in 1966, and Haroldo de Campos’ translation (or what he calls a “transcreation”) of that poem, published as Transblanco in 1986, as ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Seven Faces

    Brazilian Poetry Since Modernism

    by Charles A. Perrone ...
    Brazil, perhaps more than any other nation of the Americas, has placed poetry at the forefront of dialogue and debate about the limits and uses of art, the social duties of artists, and the nature of nationalism and national identity. In Seven Faces, Charles A. Perrone charts the course of Brazilian poetry in the contemporary period through the principal currents, multiple tendencies, and ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Brazil, Lyric, and the Americas

    by Charles A. Perrone ...
    "This is Perrone at his most brilliant. Erudite but accessible, thorough but playful: Brazil, Lyric, and the Americas is the latest contribution by the most knowledgeable U.S.-based scholar of the Brazilian lyric."--Severino Joao Albuquerque, University of Wisconsin "Perrone retraces the dialogue of the Brazilian lyric with the poetry of the Americas in the generous spirit that the poets' utopia ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Masters of Contemporary Brazilian Song

    MPB, 1965-1985

    by Charles A. Perrone ...
    Masters of Contemporary Brazilian Song is a critical study of MPB (música popular brasileira), a term that refers to varieties of urban popular music of the 1960s and 1970s, incorporating samba, Bossa Nova, and new materials. ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • First World Third Class and Other Tales of the Global Mix

    by Regina Rheda ...
    Regina Rheda is a contemporary award-winning Brazilian writer whose original voice and style have won her many admirers. First World Third Class and Other Tales of the Global Mix presents some of her finest and most representative work to an English-speaking readership. Stories from the Copan Building consists of eight tales set in a famous residential building in So Paulo. The stories, like the ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Brazilian Popular Music and Globalization

    Edited by Charles A. Perrone, Christopher Dunn ...
    This collection of articles by leading scholars traces the history of Brazilian pop music through the twentieth-century. ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The First Class

    Transits of Brazilian Literature Abroad

    by Saavedra, Carola; Perrone, Charles A.; Finazzi-Agrò, Ettore; Garramuño, John; Passos, José Miguel; Schwarcz, Lilia Moritz; Pardo, M. Carmen Villarino; Librandi-Rocha, Marília; Riaudel, Michel; Schulze, Peter W.; Vecchi, Roberto; Santos, Vivaldo Andrade, Florencia; Sorá, Gustavo; Rocha, João Cezar de Castro; Salles, João Moreira; Gledson, José Luiz;, Wisnik ...
    Translated by Norman, John ...
    What does a professor Brazilian or otherwise think and do on the first day of class, standing before a group of “foreign” students to talk about Brazilian literature? This apparently simple question that gave rise to the essays gathered in this book opens a series of other questions: Who is this professor? How did he or she go about planning that first class? What challenges do professors ... Read more

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  • Brutality Garden

    Tropicália and the Emergence of a Brazilian Counterculture

    by Christopher Dunn ...
    In the late 1960s, Brazilian artists forged a watershed cultural movement known as Tropicália. Music inspired by that movement is today enjoying considerable attention at home and abroad. Few new listeners, however, make the connection between this music and the circumstances surrounding its creation, the most violent and repressive days of the military regime that governed Brazil from 1964 to ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Latin American Women Writers: An Encyclopedia

    Edited by María Claudia André, Eva Paulino Bueno ...
    Latin American Women Writers: An Encyclopedia presents the lives and critical works of over 170 women writers in Latin America between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries. This features thematic entries as well as biographies of female writers whose works were originally published in Spanish or Portuguese, and who have had an impact on literary, political, and social studies.Focusing on drama, ... Read more

    $420.00 USD

  • Flamenco on the Global Stage

    Historical, Critical and Theoretical Perspectives

    Edited by Ninotchka Devorah Bennahum, Michelle Heffner Hayes, K. Meira Goldberg ...
    The language of the body is central to the study of flamenco. From the records of the Inquisition, to 16th century literature, to European travel diaries, the Spanish dancer beguiles and fascinates. The word flamenco evokes the image of a sensuous and rebellious woman--the bailaora --whose movements seduce the audience, only to reject their attention with a stomp of defiance. The dancer's body is ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Jorge Amado

    New Critical Essays

    Edited by Earl Fitz, Keith Brower, Enrique Martinez-Vidal ...
    Jorge Amado is simultaneously one of Brazil's most prolific and widely read novelists and one of its most controversial. Seeking to offer for his English-speaking audience the same range of critical thinking that surrounds his work in Brazil, this volume provides an introduction and chronology to Amado's life, followed by a comprehensive survey of his major works by some of the world's leading ... Read more

    $57.99 USD