Schollhammer Karl Erik
Schollhammer Karl Erik - Affect And Realism In Contemporary Brazilian Fiction - Hardcover
Schollhammer Karl Erik - Affect And Realism In Contemporary Brazilian Fiction - Hardcover
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Description: This book is about contemporary Brazilian fiction from the past two decades and concerned with the possibilities of literary intervention in the reality of the historical moment. Thus an understanding of the actual role of literature is strategic in the definition of the contemporary and the book shows an optimism among current writers and artists with respect to the aesthetic ethical and political role of literature and art in the twentieth century. In contemporary Brazilian prose two simultaneous ambitions are often reconciled. The commitment to individual or social reality is a challenge that is assumed without thereby necessarily accepting and following the molds of the traditional search for national or cultural identities. This foundation is one of the constants of contemporary prose without thereby eliminating the continuous existence of a formal experimentalism that is the clearest heir of the modernist project. Recent literary studies of Brazil generally accept that there was a transformation in the 1960s and 1970s from a narrative mainly situated in regional areas or the backlands to the appearance of the big city as a contradictory scenario for national literature. Novelists and short story writers who are consolidated at that time encounter in the big cities ofs o Paulo and Rio de Janeiro a reality that not only brought a promise of modernity but also produced a civic marginality that came with extreme poverty violence and organized crime. In the 1990s and 2000s a generation of writers appeared who revived programmatic principles of this urban prose and who began the new century with a new demand for the real. Such a demand included references from historical realism and at the same time preserved a desire to experiment aesthetically in search of effects and affects through a performative writing that was articulated in the translation of the historical temporality mainly in the exploration of a lived presence. The narratives discussed are situated in a spatial referentiality that abandons the imaginary construction of the nation an important task of modern literature in favor of stories that are globalized by exploring ways to include Brazilian culture and language in new international networks.
Title: Affect And Realism In Contemporary Brazilian Fiction
Author(s): Schollhammer Karl Erik
Publisher: Anthem Press
Barcode: 9781785275562
Pages: 142 Pages
Publication Date: 12/15/2020
Series: Anthem Brazilian Studies
Category: Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers
Description: This book is about contemporary Brazilian fiction from the past two decades and concerned with the possibilities of literary intervention in the reality of the historical moment. Thus an understanding of the actual role of literature is strategic in the definition of the contemporary and the book shows an optimism among current writers and artists with respect to the aesthetic ethical and political role of literature and art in the twentieth century. In contemporary Brazilian prose two simultaneous ambitions are often reconciled. The commitment to individual or social reality is a challenge that is assumed without thereby necessarily accepting and following the molds of the traditional search for national or cultural identities. This foundation is one of the constants of contemporary prose without thereby eliminating the continuous existence of a formal experimentalism that is the clearest heir of the modernist project. Recent literary studies of Brazil generally accept that there was a transformation in the 1960s and 1970s from a narrative mainly situated in regional areas or the backlands to the appearance of the big city as a contradictory scenario for national literature. Novelists and short story writers who are consolidated at that time encounter in the big cities ofs o Paulo and Rio de Janeiro a reality that not only brought a promise of modernity but also produced a civic marginality that came with extreme poverty violence and organized crime. In the 1990s and 2000s a generation of writers appeared who revived programmatic principles of this urban prose and who began the new century with a new demand for the real. Such a demand included references from historical realism and at the same time preserved a desire to experiment aesthetically in search of effects and affects through a performative writing that was articulated in the translation of the historical temporality mainly in the exploration of a lived presence. The narratives discussed are situated in a spatial referentiality that abandons the imaginary construction of the nation an important task of modern literature in favor of stories that are globalized by exploring ways to include Brazilian culture and language in new international networks.
Title: Affect And Realism In Contemporary Brazilian Fiction
Author(s): Schollhammer Karl Erik
Publisher: Anthem Press
Barcode: 9781785275562
Pages: 142 Pages
Publication Date: 12/15/2020
Series: Anthem Brazilian Studies
Category: Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers
