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Everyday Consumption in Twenty-First-Century Brazilian Fiction is the first in-depth study to map out the representation of consumption in contemporary Brazilian prose, highlighting how our interactions with commodities connect seemingly disconnected areas of everyday life, such as eating habits, th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bezerra, Lígia (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, [2022]
Colección:Purdue studies in Romance literatures ; v. 85.
Temas:
2000-2099
Brazilian fiction > 21st century > History and criticism.
Consumption (Economics) in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American
Brazilian fiction.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • EVERYDAY CONSUMPTION
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Theories of Consumption
  • Historicizing Consumption in Latin America
  • Consumption and Everyday Life
  • Chapter One A Consumer's Dystopia
  • Bonassi's Luxúria: Brazil, Country of the Future! Are We There Yet?
  • Everyday Violence
  • Everyday Numbness
  • The Factory and the Country: The Right Turn?
  • Sant' Anna's O Brasil é bom: Federal Republic of Consumption
  • The Growth of Neoconservatism
  • Brazil, a Country of "Nice" People
  • Brazil Isn't Too Bad. Or Is It?
  • Policing Consumption
  • Chapter Two The Consuming Self
  • Lísias's O livro dos mandarins: What Is in a Name?
  • Of Great Leaders and Neoliberal Thought
  • Failure: The Narrative Behind the Narrative
  • Bernardo Carvalho's Reprodução: Information in the Era of Reproduction
  • Talking to Oneself
  • The (Dis)Information Era
  • A Time of Crisis
  • Language and Power
  • Of Utopic Futures
  • Chapter Three Consumer Culture's "Collateral Damage"
  • Invisible Lives
  • Everyday Death
  • Of Meat Consumption
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter Four A Consumer's Dreams and Nightmares
  • Galera's Mãos de cavalo: A Mass-Mediated Sensibility
  • Laub's A maçã envenenada: Between Kurt Cobain and Imaculée Ilibagiza
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter Five Working-Class Consumption
  • Consuming Together
  • Aesthetic Interruptions of the Mundane
  • Low and High
  • Tactical Consumption
  • Conclusion
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index
  • About the Book
  • About the Author

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