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Oscar Niemeyer Pele Antonio Conselheiro Augusto Boal
Carolina Maria De Jesus
Lampiao
Lula
Roberto Burle Marx
Ayrton Senna
Ronaldo
Santos Dumont
Women In
Brazil
Fernando Henrique De Cardoso
Gracie Family
More Biographies Of Famous & Notable Brazilians
Ayrton
Senna: As Time Goes By
The
Bandit King: Lampião Of Brazil
Benedita
Da Silva: An Afro-Brazilian
The Life and Death of Carolina Maria De Jesus In the dozen years
Carolina Maria De Jesus (1914-1977)
lived in a Sao Paulo, Brazil, shanty slum, she survived by rummaging for junk.
She also kept a diary of her abject poverty. Black, illegitimate, and poor, she
suddenly became at age forty-six Brazil's best-selling author when a book drawn
from her diaries appeared in 1960. An English translation, "Child of the Dark,"
was published in 1962 and sold over 300,000 copies in the United States in a
decade. "Newsweek" heralded her book as "a desperate, terrifying outcry from the
slums of Sao Paulo. . . one of the most astonishing documents of the lower depts
ever printed." Collaborating with a Brazilian colleague, Levine tells the story
of Carolina's life, giving particular emphasis to the years following her
publishing success, and engages in a provocative debate over what Carolina's
life reveals about such issues as racism in Brazil, the rigidity of that
country's class system, and the process of constructing an identity amid
constant degradation and proverty.
--book description
Curves
Of Time:
Hamlet
And The Baker's Son:
Heitor
Villa-Lobos: A Life
Lula and the Workers' Party in Brazil
My Airships: The Story of My Life
Pele:
His Life And Times
Pele:
The King Of Soccer
Pele: My Life And The Beautiful Game
by Christopher Hilton
by Billy Jaynes Chandler
More About The Bandit King: Lampiao
Woman's Story Of Politics And Love
by Benedita Da Silva
by Robert M. Levine & Jose Carlos Sebe Bom Meihy
The Memoirs Of Oscar Niemeyer
by Oscar Niemeyer
My Life In Theatre And Politics
by Augusto Boal
by David P. Appleby
Heitor Villa-Lobos CDs
by Sue Branford
More Books
About Lula
by Alberto Santos-Dumont
by Harry Harris
by Susan Canizares
by Pele with Robert L. Fish
Wings Of Madness: Alberto Santos-Dumont
And The Invention Of Flight
by Paul Hoffman
Xuxa:
The Mega-Marketing Of
Gender, Race, And Modernity (hardcover)
by Amelia Simpson
Former Playboy centerfold and soft-porn movie actress Xuxa
(SHOO-sha) emerged in the 1980s as Brazil's mass media megastar. Through her
children's television show, which reaches millions of people in Latin America
and the United States, this blond sex symbol has attained extraordinary cultural
authority. Reaching far beyond younger audiences, Xuxa's show informs the
culture at large about gender relations, racial democracy, and idealized beauty.
Backed by Brazil's TV Globo, the fourth-largest commercial network in the world,
Xuxa has built an empire. Amelia Simoson's colorful portrayal is the first book
to explore how Xuxa's representation of femininity, her privileging of a white
ideal of beauty, and her promotional approach to culture perpetuate inequality
on an unprecedented scale. Simpson's thoughtful analysis exposes the complicity
of a mass audience eager to celebrate
Xuxa's deeply compromised representations
of gender, race, and modernity. --book description