Misplaced Ideas: Essays on Brazilian Culture

Brazilian culture - nationalism by elimination misplaced ideas - literature and society in late-19th-century Brazil beware of alien ideologies the importing of the novel to Brazil and its contradictions in the work of Alencar Machado de Assis - a biographical sketch complex, modern, national and negative the poor woman and her portraitist Who Can Tell Me That This Character is Not Brazil? the cart, the tram and the modernist poet culture and politics in Brazil, 1964-1969 cinema and The Guns on A Man Marked Out To Die is there a Third World aesthetic? Anatol Rosenfeld, a foreign intellectual a historic landmark Chico Buarque's new novel.