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 …
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 examines the relationship between literature, empathy, and human rights in historical and contemporary novels from the Americas. Paying particular attention to racial injustice …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
This dissertation analyses the political thought of three Portuguese writers, Fernando Namora, Jose Cardoso Pires, and Urbano Tavares Rodrigues, in their fictional work and in …
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 analyzes the lessons on love dispersed in the prose fiction of Brazilian 19th-century writers Joaquim Manuel de Macedo, José de Alencar and Machado …
