The first comprehensive cultural history of Brazil to be written in
English, Brazil Imagined: 1500 to the Present captures the role of
the artistic imaginary in shaping Brazil's national identity.
Analyzing representations of Brazil throughout the world, this
ambitious survey demonstrates the ways in which life in one of the
world's largest nations has been conceived and revised in visual
arts, literature, film, and a variety of other media.
Beginning with the first explorations of Brazil by the
Portuguese, Darlene J. Sadlier incorporates extensive source
material, including paintings, historiographies, letters, poetry,
novels, architecture, and mass media to trace the nation's shifting
sense of its own history. Topics include the oscillating themes of
Edenic and cannibal encounters, Dutch representations of Brazil,
regal constructs, the literary imaginary, Modernist utopias, "good
neighbor" protocols, and filmmakers' revolutionary and dystopian
images of Brazil. A magnificent panoramic study of race,
imperialism, natural resources, and other themes in the Brazilian
experience, this landmark work is a boon to the field.
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