Vieira States of Grace

Utopia in Brazilian Culture
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-4384-6925-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 234 Seiten

Reihe: SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture

Provides in-depth analyses of key moments in Brazilian utopianism, including theologico-political, matriarchal, environmental, and work-free utopias.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vieira, Patrícia I.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Lateinamerikanische Literaturen, Spanische Literatur außerhalb Europas

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: A Land of Utopias

1. The Theologico–Political Utopia of Father Antônio Vieira

2. Amazons in the Amazon: Communitarian Matriarchy in the Jungle

3. Zoophytographia: Interspecies Literature and the Writings of Clarice Lispector

4. Idling in the Tropics: Utopias of Leisure

Epilogue: The Country of the Future

Notes
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Patrícia I. Vieira is Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Georgetown University and Associate Research Professor at the Center for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra, Portugal. She has written several books, including Seeing Politics Otherwise: Vision in Latin American and Iberian Fiction and Existential Utopia: New Perspectives on Utopian Thought (coedited with Michael Marder).