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The voices of violence in contemporary Brazilian culture

The article deals with the theoretical issues concerning aesthetical representation in contemporary cultural goods, recurring particularly to two examples: the books of Paulo Lins, Cidade de Deus and Dráuzio Varella, Estação Carandiru, both taken in dialogue the films which originated from them. The...

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Main Author: Pelegrini, Tânia
Format: Online
Language:Portuguese
Published: Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas 2005
Subjects:
Cultura brasileira contemporânea
Ficção brasileira contemporânea
Formas de representação
Violência
Contemporary Brazilian culture
Contemporary Brazilian fiction;
Forms of representation
Violence
Online Access:https://econtents.sbu.unicamp.br/inpec/index.php/cma/article/view/19559
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Summary:The article deals with the theoretical issues concerning aesthetical representation in contemporary cultural goods, recurring particularly to two examples: the books of Paulo Lins, Cidade de Deus and Dráuzio Varella, Estação Carandiru, both taken in dialogue the films which originated from them. The text interrogates the role and the function of the forms of representation violence seen in the books and in the films, trying to insert this in the broader framework of a history of the represent of violence in the Brazilian literature.
ISSN:0104-9321

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