Postcards From Paradise: Brazil
Author: Chantelle Shaw
Publisher: Mills & Boon
Published: 2023-02-16
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780263318685
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Will their spark simmer in the sun?
Author: Chantelle Shaw
Publisher: Mills & Boon
Published: 2023-02-16
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780263318685
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Will their spark simmer in the sun?
Author: Chantelle Shaw
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Published: 2023-02-16
Total Pages: 520
ISBN-13: 0008931313
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Author: João Emilio Gerodetti
Publisher: Solaris Editorial
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 8589820033
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: João Emilio Gerodetti
Publisher: Solaris Editorial
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9788589820042
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This journey will take us back in time, to the so-called 'Golden Era' of the postcard in the first decades of the 20th century. Brazil's natural beauty is known to us all - the rivers, mountains, forests, and beaches. Postcards have shown these places, and many are now famous around the world - Pão de Açúcar, the Amazon River, the Northeast coast. Yet many marvelous images of this immense and diverse quasi-continent that is Brazil have not graced postcards. Many of the locations featured in this book have changed over time, as structures that value beauty more than function are replaced by others in which the opposite is true. It is important to acknowledge the photographers and publishers of earlier eras, many of them unknown, whose merit and artistic talent have given us these postcards and albums, which today are the best images we have of Brazil’s historic cities.
Author: Kátia da Costa Bezerra
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Published: 2017-06-01
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 0823276562
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Through the analysis of a variety of favela-based visual cultural productions by young people and contemporary theorists, Postcards from Rio examines the complex relationship between citizenship and urban space in contemporary Rio de Janeiro. By analyzing videos and photographs, Kátia da Costa Bezerra illustrates how citizens of favelas are reshaping their sense of belonging as subjects and as a legitimate part of the city. A groundbreaking study that examines more deeply the relationship between urban space, citizenship, and imagery originating in the favelas, Postcards from Rio sheds crucial light on how contemporary lenses are defining and mediating the meanings of space and citizenship as strategies of empowerment. The city emerges as a political space where multiplicities of perspectives are intertwined with demands for more inclusive forms of governance.
Author: Leila J. Rupp
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2015-10-02
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 022633645X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →It's Saturday night in Key West and the Girlie Show is about to begin at the 801 Cabaret. The girls have been outside on the sidewalk all evening, seducing passersby into coming in for the show. The club itself is packed tonight and smoke has filled the room. When the lights finally go down, statuesque blonds and stunning brunettes sporting black leather miniskirts, stiletto heels, and see-through lingerie take the stage. En Vogue's "Free Your Mind" blares on the house stereo. The crowd roars in approval. In this lively book, Leila J. Rupp and Verta Taylor take us on an entertaining tour through one of America's most overlooked subcultures: the world of the drag queen. They offer a penetrating glimpse into the lives of the 801 Girls, the troupe of queens who perform nightly at the 801 Cabaret for tourists and locals. Weaving together their fascinating life stories, their lavish costumes and eclectic music, their flamboyance and bitchiness, and their bawdy exchanges with one another and their audiences, the authors explore how drag queens smash the boundaries between gay and straight, man and woman, to make people think more deeply and realistically about sex and gender in America today. They also consider how the queens create a space that encourages camaraderie and acceptance among everyday people, no matter what their sexual preferences might be. Based on countless interviews with more than a dozen drag queens, more than three years of attendance at their outrageous performances, and even the authors' participation in the shows themselves, Drag Queens at the 801 Cabaret is a witty and poignant portrait of gay life and culture. When they said life is a cabaret, they clearly meant the 801.
Author: Isidore Okpewho
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 612
ISBN-13: 9780253334251
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Author: Colleen M. Scanlan Lyons
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2023-02-07
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0816548293
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book looks at social-environmental activism in one of the world's most important and threatened tropical forests--Southern Bahia, Brazil. It explores what it means to be in and of a place through the lenses of history, environment, identity, class, and culture. It uncovers not only what separates people but also what brings them together as they struggle and strive to create their individual and collective paradise.
Author: Lígia Bezerra
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Published: 2022-08-15
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13: 1612497608
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Everyday Consumption in Twenty-First-Century Brazilian Fiction is the first in-depth study to map out the representation of consumption in contemporary Brazilian prose, highlighting how our interactions with commodities connect seemingly disconnected areas of everyday life, such as eating habits, the growth of prosperity theology, and ideas of success and failure. It is also the first text to provide a pluralistic perspective on the representation of consumption in this fiction that moves beyond the concern with aesthetic judgment of culture based on binaries such as good/bad or elevated/degraded that have largely informed criticism on this body of literary work. Current Brazilian fiction provides a variety of perspectives from which to think about our daily interactions with commodities and about how consumption affects us all in subtle ways. Collectively, the narratives analyzed in the book present a wide spectrum of more or less hopeful portrayals of existence in consumer culture, from totalizing dystopia to transformative hope.
Author: Miriam Kahn
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 029599102X
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