Misplaced Ideas: Essays on Brazilian Culture (Critical Studies in Latin American Culture S.) - Hardcover

Schwarz, Roberto

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9780860913825: Misplaced Ideas: Essays on Brazilian Culture (Critical Studies in Latin American Culture S.)

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ISBN 10: 0860913821 ISBN 13: 9780860913825

Publisher: Verso Books, 1992

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"Misplaced Ideas" spans the 19th and 20th centuries, and examines the life and work of Brazil's most influential novelist, Machado de Assis, as well as Brazilian film, poetry, theatre and music. Among the themes that run through the text are the dangers of nationalism, the West's attraction for exotic backwardness and the notion of "Third World" literature.

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"Roberto Schwarz's essays are not only a brilliant analysis of Brazilian literature and art, but above all a bold, original and creative contribution to a "critical theory" of literature, to a materialist interpretation of cultural history"--Michael Lowy

About the Author:

Roberto Schwarz, born in Vienna in 1938, grew up in Sao Paulo, studying there and later in the United States and France. His books in English include "Two Girls," "Misplaced Ideas: Essays on Brazilian Culture" and "A Master on the Periphery of Capitalism," the central component of his study of Machado.

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