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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... Iracema ( 1865 ) , though many others are still popular in Brazil . Alencar did in fiction what Gonçalves Dias had done a generation earlier in poetry , and since he was so prolific it is fair to say that he did it in a more complete ...
... Iracema ( Iracema , 1886 ) . Published in 1865 , it was reprinted annually for a century , and by now the number of editions probably surpasses the number of years of the book's existence . It is set in the early colonial period in ...
... Iracema as a " legend of Ceará , " making it probable that he was aware of the appeal the story might have as an origin myth or a creation myth . Controversy still exists as to whether the fact that " Iracema ” is an anagram for ...
Contents
Print Media and Broadcasting | 95 |
Cinema | 117 |
Literature | 131 |
Copyright | |
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