Culture and Customs of BrazilBloomsbury Academic, 30. juuni 2003 - 195 pages Race, religion, language, culture, and national character are full of contradictions. Brazil, the largest country in South America, embodies so much paradox that it defies neat description. This book will help students and general readers dispel stereotypes of Brazil and begin to understand what country's bigness means in terms of its land, people, history, society, and cultural expressions. |
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... Brazilian , several interesting contrasts emerge , and they all point in the direction of a hypothesis for Brazilian Portuguese as a creolized language . A creole language is a pidgin or blend of two languages which has become the ...
... Brazilian schoolchild and a milestone so important in Brazilian literature that it has been rewritten , put into song , and parodied by genera- tions of Brazilians . Only 24 lines long , and written when the poet was a mere 20 years old ...
... Brazilian Romantics also produced a great deal of poetry that is more in line with what we now consider typical of the period . The best example is probably Álvares de Azevedo ( 1831-1852 ) , dubbed by critics “ the Brazilian Byron ...
Contents
Print Media and Broadcasting | 95 |
Cinema | 117 |
Literature | 131 |
Copyright | |
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