Performing Brazil : essays on culture, identity, and the performing arts /
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| Imprint: | Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2015] |
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| Description: | vi, 305 pages ; 23 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10127405 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Why Performing Brazil?
- 1. On the (Im)Possibility of Performing Brazil
- 2. Biting the Meat, Spitting It Out: Twenty-First-Century Cannibalism
- 3. Performing Brazilianness through Dance: The Case of Grupo Corpo
- 4. Staging Capoeira, Samba, Maculelê, and Candomblé: Viva Bahia's Choreographies of Afro-Brazilian Folklore for the Global Stage
- 5. Global Identities of Capoeira and the Berimbau: Keeping It Brazilian Overseas
- 6. Performing Cultural Visibility: Brazilian Immigrants, Mardi Gras, and New Orleans
- 7. Maurício Einhorn: Musical Crossings
- 8. Playing with Realism(s): Narrating the Morro through Performance and the Visual Arts
- 9. The Bicultural Sex Symbol: Sônia Braga in Brazilian and North American Popular Culture
- 10. Body Language and Embodied Spaces: Performing the Public and the Private in Arnaldo Antunes's Nome
- 11. Post-Periphery Performances: Reclaiming Artistic Legacies, Histories, and Archives
- 12. Performative Devices in Clarice Lispector's Texts
- Contributors
- Index
