Citizenship and crisis in contemporary Brazilian literature /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Lehnen, Leila Maria
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Subjects:	Brazilian literature > 20th century > History and criticism. Brazilian literature > 21st century > History and criticism. Politics and literature > Brazil > History > 20th century. Politics and literature > Brazil > History > 21st century. Citizenship in literature. Politics in literature.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: voices of contestation: obstacles and paths to citizenship in contemporary Brazilian literature
Luiz Ruffato: landscapes of disrepair and despair in Inferno provisório
Fridges and suburbs in the new world order: Fernando Bonassi's Spaces of abjection
Practical handbook of citizenship. Negating/negotiating human rights in São Paulo's periphery
Cartographies of hope: charting empowerment in Guia afetivo da periferia
Epilogue.