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Carmen Miranda got knocked down and kept going. Filming an
appearance on The Jimmy Durante Show on August 4, 1955, the
"ambassadress of samba" suddenly took a knee during a dance number,
clearly in distress. Durante covered without missing a beat, and
Miranda was back on her feet in a matter of moments to continue
with what she did best: performing. By the next morning, she was
dead from heart failure at age 46. This final performance in many
ways exemplified the power of Carmen Miranda. The actress, singer,
and dancer pursued a relentless mission to demonstrate the
provocative theatrical force of her cultural roots in Brazil. Armed
with bare-midriff dresses, platform shoes, and her iconic
fruit-basket headdresses, Miranda stole the show in films like That
Night in Rio and The Gang's All Here. For American film audiences,
her life was an example of the exoticism of a mysterious, sensual
South America. For Brazilian and Latin American audiences, she was
an icon. For the gay community, she became a work of art
personified and a symbol of courage and charisma. In Creating
Carmen Miranda, Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez takes the reader through the
myriad methods Miranda consciously used to shape her performance of
race, gender, and camp culture, all to further her journey down the
road to becoming a legend.
Carmen Miranda got knocked down and kept going. Filming an
appearance on The Jimmy Durante Show on August 4, 1955, the
""ambassadress of samba"" suddenly took a knee during a dance
number, clearly in distress. Durante covered without missing a
beat, and Miranda was back on her feet in a matter of moments and
continued with what she did best: performing. By the next morning,
she was dead from heart failure at age 46. This final performance
in many ways exemplified the power of Carmen Miranda. The actress,
singer, and dancer pursued a relentless mission to demonstrate the
provocative theatrical force of her cultural roots in Brazil. Armed
with bare-midriff dresses, platform shoes, and her iconic
fruit-basket headdresses, Miranda stole the show in films like That
Night in Rio and The Gang's All Here. For American film audiences,
her life was an example of the exoticism of a mysterious sensual
South America. For Brazilian and Latin American audiences, she was
an icon. For the gay community, she became a work of art
personified and a symbol of courage and charisma. In Creating
Carmen Miranda, Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez takes the reader through the
myriad methods Miranda consciously used to shape her performance of
race, gender, and camp culture, all to further her journey down the
road to becoming a legend.
A field-shaping anthology by top cultural critics and practitioners
representing a wide range of disciplines and art forms, "Performing
Brazil" is the first book to bring together studies of the many and
varied manifestations of Brazilian performance in and beyond their
country of origin. Arguing that diverse forms of performance are
best understood when presented in tandem, it offers new takes on
better-known forms, such as carnival and capoeira, as well as those
studied less often, including gender acts, curatorial practice,
political protest, and the performance of Brazil in the United
States.
The contributors to the volume are Maria Jose Somerlate Barbosa,
Eric Galm, Annie Gibson, Ana Paula Hofling, Benjamin Legg, Bryan
McCann, Simone Osthoff, Fernando de Sousa Rocha, Cristina F. Rosa,
Alessandra Santos, and Lidia Santos.
Portuguese Literature and the Environment explores the relationship
between Portuguese literature and the environment from Medieval
times to the present. From the centrality of nature in Medieval
poetry, through the bucolic verse of the Renaissance, all the way
to the Romantic and post-Romantic nostalgia for a pristine natural
or rural landscape under threat in the wake of industrialization,
Portuguese literature has frequently reflected on the connection
between humans and the natural world. More recently, the
postcolonial turn in contemporary literature has highlighted the
contrast between the environment of the former colonies and that of
Portugal. Contributors to the collection examine how Portuguese
writers engage with the environment and have incorporated nature in
their texts not only to prompt social, political or philosophical
reflections on human society, but also as a way to learn from
non-humans. The book is organized into three sections. The first
explores the relationship between Portuguese philosophy,
historiography, culture, and environmental issues. The second
section discusses the link between literary texts and the
environment from the Renaissance to 1900. The final section
analyzes the connection between literary movements or specific
authors and environmental change from 1900 to today. Scholars of
literature, Latin American studies, literature, and environmental
studies will find this volume especially useful.
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