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 …
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, …
“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 …
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 …
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 …
This dissertation aims to analyze, mainly through a performance studies approach, socio-political and cultural issues in three Brazilian contemporary novels, featuring professional writers as narrators. …
This dissertation explores the interactions between the experience of travel and the creation of narrated selves, as posited by Paul Ricoeur, in the fictional and …
This dissertation analyzes the emergence of an Afro-Brazilian racial consciousness from 1955 to 1988 vis-� -vis the lyrics and other writings by four composers of …