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A Guerra Cultural Conservadora no Brasil Contemporâneo e Sua Expressão Literária

Description:
Esta tese busca compreender a guerra cultural conservadora no Brasil contemporâneo, por meio de sua expressão na literatura e nos quadrinhos. Tendo o conceito gramsciano …
Year:
2023
Contributor:
Amado Barreto, Renato (creator)
Valente, Luiz (Advisor)
Lehnen, Leila (Reader)
Green, James (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Brazil
Brazilian literature
Graphic novels
brazilian politics
Right-wing extremists
Collection:
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
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Admirable but Not Imitable: Brazilian Interpretations of the United States, 1910-1960

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Abstract of “Admirable but Not Imitable: Brazilian Interpretations of the United States, 1910-1960” by Benjamin Legg, PhD., Brown University, May 2016. This dissertation examines texts …
Year:
2016
Contributor:
Legg, Benjamin W (creator)
Vieira, Nelson (Director)
Valente, Luiz (Reader)
Green, James (Reader)
Brown University. Portuguese and Brazilian Studies (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Brazil-United States Relations
Brazilian National Identity
Transnational Perceptions
Travel Narrative
Brazilian Intellectual History
Travel writing
Language:
English
Collection:
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
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Affective Crossings: Mapping Empathy and Human Rights in Literature of the Americas

Description:
This dissertation examines the relationship between literature, empathy, and human rights in historical and contemporary novels from the Americas. Paying particular attention to racial injustice …
Year:
2021
Contributor:
Jones, Jordan Benjamin (creator)
Lehnen, Leila (Advisor)
Valente, Luiz (Reader)
Martínez-Pinzón, Felipe (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Brazilian literature
Antislavery movements
Affect theory
Human rights
Afro-Brazilians
Literature--Black authors
Marginality, Social, in literature
Collection:
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
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African Women's Short Fiction in Portuguese

Description:
In this dissertation, I propose a comparative study of short fiction written in Portuguese by African women authors from five countries: Cape Verde, Angola, Guinea-Bissau, …
Year:
2026
Contributor:
Silva Fernandes, Joyce (creator)
Martinho Ferreira, Patricia (Advisor)
Simas-Almeida, Leonor (Reader)
Y. Perry, Keisha-Khan (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
African literature
Lusophone Literature
Women's Literature
Collection:
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
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Another Nature: Nature and the City in Brazilian Short Fiction, 1950-2000

Description:
In this dissertation I examine the relationship between nature and city as it manifests in Brazilian short stories from the 1950s to the 1990s, particularly …
Year:
2019
Contributor:
Gold, Adi (creator)
Vieira, Nelson (Advisor)
Valente, Luiz (Reader)
Sobral, Patricia (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Literature
Brazil
Brazilian literature
Fiction
Short stories
ecology
Human-animal relationships
nature
Ecocriticism
New materialism
Urban literature
Cities
Collection:
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
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At Home and Abroad: Global Consciousness, Literary Citizenship, and Belonging in the Twenty-First Century Brazilian Novel

Description:
Already at the tail end of the twentieth century, scholars of globalization were interrogating what it means to be a global citizen. International events, global …
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Hill, Chloe (creator)
Vieira, Nelson (Advisor)
Valente, Luiz (Reader)
Whitfield, Esther (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Literature
Brazilian literature
belonging
Culture and globalization
Contemporary Literature
Twenty-first century
Collection:
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
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Brazil under Construction: Literature, Public Works, and Progress

Description:
This dissertation analyzes literary representations of Brazilian public works to explore questions about power and narrative. It explores how, from the 1900s through the 1970s, …
Year:
2010
Contributor:
Beal, Sophia (creator)
Vieira, Nelson (Director)
Green, James (Reader)
Dzidzienyo, Anani (Reader)
Brown University. Portuguese and Brazilian Studies (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Infrastructure
Brasilia
Modernism
Urban Studies
Modernity
Brazilian Cultural Studies
Brazilian literature
Public works
Infrastructure (Economics)
Cities and towns--Study and teaching
Progress
Civilization, Modern
Brazil--Distrito Federal
Language:
English
Collection:
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
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Circo Transcendental: O Circo Místico na Poesia de Jorge de Lima, nas Cançöes de Edu Lobo e Chico Buarque e na Cultura Brasileira

Description:
This dissertation analyzes the connections between Jorge de Lima's 1938 poem "O grande circo místico" and a group of songs that Edu Lobo and Chico …
Year:
2011
Contributor:
Ribeiro, Guilherme Trielli (creator)
Valente, Luiz (Director)
Vieira, Nelson (Reader)
Sobral, Patricia (Reader)
Brown University. Portuguese and Brazilian Studies (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Jorge de Lima
Edu Lobo
Chico Buarque
Brazilian literature
Music
Lima, Jorge de > 1893-1953
Lobo, Edu
Buarque, Chico > 1944-
Language:
Portuguese
Collection:
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
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Dissident Desires: Race, Sex and Abolition in 19th Century Brazilian Literature

Description:
“Dissident Desires: Race, Sex and Abolition in 19th Century Brazilian Literature” is a study of the interplay of sex, race and deviancy in the construction …
Year:
2012
Contributor:
Aidoo, Lamonte (creator)
Vieira, Nelson (Director)
Valente, Luiz (Reader)
Dzidzienyo, Anani (Reader)
Perry, Keisha-Khan (Reader)
Brown University. Portuguese and Brazilian Studies (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Abolition
Sexuality
Body
Race
Antislavery movements
Human body
Brazil
Language:
English
Collection:
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
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Dr. Playwright and Mr. Bard: A Study of Drama in Early-Twentieth Century Ibero-America

Description:
For centuries, drama has occupied a contentious place within literary studies. Often, critics have excluded the genre from the boundaries of the literary discipline justified …
Year:
2022
Contributor:
Barbosa Lopez, Nicolas (creator)
Almeida, Onesimo (Advisor)
Valente, Luiz (Reader)
Pizarro, Jeronimo (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Portuguese literature
Drama
Pessoa, Fernando, 1888-1935
Huidobro, Vicente, 1893-1948
Storni, Alfonsina, 1892-1938
Andrade, Oswald de, 1890-1954
Bible. Genesis
Almada Negreiros, José de, 1893-1970
Collection:
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
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Empire's Individuals and the Reproduction of Imperial Meaning in Colonialism and Postcoloniality

Description:
A This dissertation explores, through colonial and postcolonial literatures and cinemas, the theoretical relationship between the formation of individual identity and the reproduction of meaning …
Year:
2013
Contributor:
Silva, Daniel F (creator)
Simas-Almeida, Leonor (Director)
Vieira, Nelson (Reader)
Dzidzienyo, Anani (Reader)
Brown University. Portuguese and Brazilian Studies (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Empire
colonial discourse
postcoloniality
Imperialism
Racism
Language:
English
Collection:
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
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Faces de Jano: A Identidade Nacional nos Estados Novos de Salazar e Getúlio, 1933-1945

Description:
The current thesis is an attempt to interpret the Portuguese New State and its Brazilian counterpart between 1933-1945 from literary and cultural perspectives. By dissecting …
Year:
2009
Contributor:
Liu, Yi (creator)
Almeida, Onesimo (director)
Valente, Luiz (reader)
Vieira, Nelson (reader)
Brown University. Portuguese and Brazilian Studies (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Identidade Nacional
Estado Novo
Neo-Realismo
Modernismo
Language:
Portuguese
Collection:
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
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Fading Fathers: Writing through Patriarchy in Contemporary Brazilian Literature

Description:
This dissertation considers the enduring influence of patriarchal discourse on Brazilian national identity and especially the relationship between fathers, family models, and socially rooted authoritarianism …
Year:
2010
Contributor:
Nielson, Rex P (creator)
Vieira, Nelson (Director)
Valente, Luiz (Reader)
Sobral, Patricia (Reader)
Brown University. Portuguese and Brazilian Studies (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
contemporary
Brazilian literature
Patriarchy
Father figures
Dictatorship
Language:
English
Collection:
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
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Fetishism as Structure, Image and Performance in the Theater of Nelson Rodrigues

Description:
This dissertation is a study of structures, images and performance of fetishism as cultural and literary strategies in the theater of Nelson Rodrigues. It explores …
Year:
2013
Contributor:
Grevan de Carvalho, Isadora (creator)
Vieira, Nelson (Director)
valente, Luiz (Reader)
Sobral, Patricia (Reader)
Brown University. Portuguese and Brazilian Studies (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Brazilian Theater
Gender
Body
Fetishism
Race
Sex
Human body
Brazilian literature
Psychoanalysis
Brazil
Language:
English
Collection:
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
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Ficções do Outro: Império, Raça e Subjectividade no Moçambique Colonial

Description:
Ao longo de séculos, o Estado português recorreu a diferentes formas de representação e construção do seu Império em África. Este estudo foca uma dessas …
Year:
2012
Contributor:
Sousa, Sandra I (creator)
Simas-Almeida, Leonor (Director)
Vieira, Nelson (Reader)
Dzidzienyo, Anani (Reader)
Brown University. Portuguese and Brazilian Studies (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Literatura Colonial
Moçambique
Raça
Luso-tropicalismo
Império
Mozambique
Language:
Portuguese
Collection:
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
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Latino-Americanizando o Brasil: Intercâmbios Intelectuais e a Transnacionalização da Literatura Brasileira

Description:
My dissertation, Latino-Americanizando o Brasil: Intercâmbios Intelectuais e a Transnacionalização da Literatura Brasileira”, analyzes how the exchanges between Brazilian and Hispanic American intellectuals during the …
Year:
2015
Contributor:
LEAL, THAYSE LIMA (creator)
VALETE, LUIZ (Director)
VIEIRA, NELSON (Reader)
ORTEGA, JULIO (Reader)
Brown University. Portuguese and Brazilian Studies (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Brazil- Hispanic America - Intelectual Exchange - Literary Transnationalization- Literary Criticism
Language:
Portuguese
Collection:
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
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Meninadade: Identity Formation of Afro-Brazilian Girls

Description:
Although there has been a recent increase in scholarship regarding Afro-Brazilian women's representation in literature, not much has been discussed regarding narratives portrayed through the …
Year:
2025
Contributor:
Williams, Kendall O. (creator)
Valente, Luiz F. (thesis advisor)
Sobral, Patricia (reader)
Brown University. Portuguese and Brazilian Studies (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Collective memory
Favela
Intersectionality
Brazilian literature
Family
Children
Trauma
Identity
Afro-Brazilian
Fazenda
Meninas negras
Infância
Brasil
Quilombos
Language:
English
Portuguese
Collection:
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
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Muslims in the National Imaginary: Literary Expressions of Brazilian Orientalism

Description:
This study interrogates how Brazilian cultural productions have examined the place of Muslims in Brazil’s national narrative, prioritizing the analysis of eleven texts published from …
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Shahid, Hasan (creator)
Vieira, Nelson (Advisor)
Valente, Luiz (Reader)
Lehnen, Leila (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
cultural studies
Brazil
Brazilian literature
Islam
Orientalism
Muslims
Latin American Studies
Collection:
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
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Narrative Streams of Extractivism in Amazonia

Description:
This dissertation examines narratives of extractivism in the imaginative formations of Amazonia and proposes a transgeneric narratology of extractivism in Amazonia rooted in the tropes …
Year:
2025
Contributor:
Ennis, Kevin William (creator)
Lehnen, Leila (Advisor)
Valente, Luiz (Reader)
Martínez-Pinzón, Felipe (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Brazilian literature
Peruvian literature
environmental humanities
Extractivism
Amazonian literature
Indigenous literature
Amazon River Region
Collection:
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
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Navigating the Postslavery Public/Private Divide: Cordiality in Brazilian and Southern American Literature

Description:
Abstract of Navigating the Postslavery Public/Private Divide: Cordiality in Brazilian and Southern American Literature by Marcos Cerdeira, PhD., Brown University May 2019. This dissertation investigates …
Year:
2019
Contributor:
Cerdeira, Marcos (creator)
Valente, Luiz F. (Advisor)
Vieira, Nelson H. (Reader)
Almeida, Onésimo T. (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Comparative literature
Brazil
Brazilian literature
Postcolonialism
literature of the american south
Southern States
Postslavery
Inter-American Studies
Cordialidade
worldview
Collection:
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
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