ISBN:
9783110408096
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (338 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies v.19
Parallel Title:
Print version KulturConfusão - On German-Brazilian Interculturalities
DDC:
303.48/2
Keywords:
Brazil -- Relations -- Germany
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Germany -- Relations -- Brazil
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Intercultural communication -- Germany
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Brazil ; Relations ; Germany
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Germany ; Relations ; Brazil
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Intercultural communication ; Germany
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
This collection examines cultural interactions between Germany and Brazil from the Early Modern period to the present day. The contributors represent various academic disciplines, including German Studies, Luso-Afro-Brazilian Studies, Cultural Studies, Linguistics, Art History and the social sciences. Their essays cover a wide range of works and media and offer a much-needed rethinking of the intercultural paradigm for the humanities. A. Finger, Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs, USA;G. Kathöfer,Univ. of Denver, USA;C. Larkosh, Univ. of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA.
Abstract:
This collection examines cultural interactions between Germany and Brazil from the Early Modern period to the present day. The contributors represent various academic disciplines, including German Studies, Luso-Afro-Brazilian Studies, Cultural Studies, Linguistics, Art History and the social sciences. Their essays cover a wide range of works and media and offer a much-needed rethinking of the intercultural paradigm for the humanities
Description / Table of Contents:
Table of Contents; KulturConfusão: On German-Brazilian Hybridities and Intercultural Hermeneutics; Indigenous Projections; Germans and Indians in Brazil: The Transatlantic Construction of Ethnic Identity in the Discourse of Indian Protection; "Paradise with Black Angels": Brazil in Eighteenth-Century Germany; Devouring Culture: Cannibalism, National Identity, and Nineteenth-Century German Emigration to Brazil; Cultural Entanglements and Ethnographic Refractions: Theodor Koch-Grünberg in Brazil; Everyday Cultures and Media
Description / Table of Contents:
German-Brazilian Cultural Exchange in the Times of the Dictatorship: The Cultural Magazine IntercâmbioFrom Documentation to Dialogue: On Bringing Brazilian Popular Music and Jazz to West Germany; Conceptual Metaphors: A Culture-Specific Construction of Meaning Using the "Life Is War" Metaphor in Brazilian and German Rap Lyrics; Transnational Film History? Um Cinema Teuto-Brasileiro; Literary Fusions and Interstitial Spaces; Tropical Subjectivity and the European Tradition of Bildung: Macunaíma, a Hero Without a Character, by Mário de Andrade
Description / Table of Contents:
"Everywhere Paradise Is Lost": The Brazilian National Myth in the Works of Refugees of NazismSubmarine: Germany Resurfacing in the Contemporary Brazilian Novel; "Exiled from the World": German Expressionism, Brazilian Modernism, and the Interstitial Primitivism of Lasar Segall; Between São Paulo and Stuttgart: Multilingualism, Translation, and Interculturality in Haroldo de Campos's and Vilém Flusser's Work; Contributors; Index
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