Everyday consumption in twenty-first-century Brazilian fiction
Everyday Consumption in Twenty-First-Century Brazilian Fiction is the first in-depth study to map out the representation of consumption in contemporary Brazilian prose, highlighting how our interactions with commodities connect seemingly disconnected areas of everyday life, such as eating habits, th...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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West Lafayette, Indiana
Purdue University Press
2022, [2022]
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| Series: | Purdue studies in Romance literatures
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | Everyday Consumption in Twenty-First-Century Brazilian Fiction is the first in-depth study to map out the representation of consumption in contemporary Brazilian prose, highlighting how our interactions with commodities connect seemingly disconnected areas of everyday life, such as eating habits, the growth of prosperity theology, and ideas of success and failure. It is also the first text to provide a pluralistic perspective on the representation of consumption in this fiction that moves beyond the concern with aesthetic judgment of culture based on binaries such as good/bad or elevated/degraded that have largely informed criticism on this body of literary work. Current Brazilian fiction provides a variety of perspectives from which to think about our daily interactions with commodities and about how consumption affects us all in subtle ways. Collectively, the narratives analyzed in the book present a wide spectrum of more or less hopeful portrayals of existence in consumer culture, from totalizing dystopia to transformative hope.-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 9781612497587 1612497586 9781612497594 1612497594 |