The Greenes' Guide to Boarding Schools by Matthew Greene

The Greenes' Guide to Boarding Schools by Matthew Greene

When Brazil was honored at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2013, the Brazilian author Luiz Ruffato opened the event with a provocative speech claiming that literature, through its pervasive depiction and discussion of 'otherness, ' has the potential to provoke ethical transformation. This book uses Ruffato's speech as a starting point for the discussion of contemporary Brazilian literature that stands in contrast to the repetition of social and cultural clich s. By illuminating the relevance of humanities and literature as a catalyst for rethinking Brazil, the book offers a resistance to the official discourses that have worked for so long to conceal social tensions, injustices, and secular inequities in Brazilian society. In doing so, it situates Brazilian literature away from the exotic and peripheral spectrum, and closer to a universal and more relevant ethical discussion for readers from all parts of the world. The volume brings together fresh contributions on both canonical contemporary authors such as Graciliano Ramos, Rubem Fonseca, and Dalton Trevisan, and traditionally silenced writing subjects such as Afro-Brazilian female authors. These essays deal with specific contemporary literary and social issues while engaging with historically constitutive phenomena in Brazil, including authoritarianism, violence, and the systematic violation of human rights. The exploration of diverse literary genres -- from novels to graphic novels, from poetry to　cr nicas -- and engagement with postcolonial studies, gender studies, queer studies, cultural studies, Brazilian studies, South American literature, and world literature carves new space for the emergence of original Brazilian thought.

The Author: Matthew W. Greene is an educational consultant, policy analyst, and mediator. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1990 and earned his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1997. He works in Westport, Connecticut, and New York City with Howard Greene and Associates, counseling students and families on educational planning at all levels, and consulting and speaking to schools, colleges, and other organizations.

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ISBN 13	9780768922417
ISBN 10	0768922410
Titel	The Greenes' Guide to Boarding Schools
Autor	Matthew Greene
Serie	Greenes' Guide To Boarding Schools
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Peterson's
Erscheinungsjahr	2006-09-01
Seitenanzahl	300
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