Everyday consumption in twenty-first-century Brazilian fiction /

Bezerra, Lígia,

Everyday consumption in twenty-first-century Brazilian fiction / Lígia Bezerra. - West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, [2022] - 1 online resource - Purdue studies in Romance literatures ; volume 85 . - Purdue studies in Romance literatures ; v. 85. .

Cover -- EVERYDAY CONSUMPTION -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Theories of Consumption -- Historicizing Consumption in Latin America -- Consumption and Everyday Life -- Chapter One A Consumer's Dystopia -- Bonassi's Luxúria: Brazil, Country of the Future! Are We There Yet? -- Everyday Violence -- Everyday Numbness -- The Factory and the Country: The Right Turn? -- Sant' Anna's O Brasil é bom: Federal Republic of Consumption -- The Growth of Neoconservatism -- Brazil, a Country of "Nice" People -- Brazil Isn't Too Bad. Or Is It? -- Policing Consumption Chapter Two The Consuming Self -- Lísias's O livro dos mandarins: What Is in a Name? -- Of Great Leaders and Neoliberal Thought -- Failure: The Narrative Behind the Narrative -- Bernardo Carvalho's Reprodução: Information in the Era of Reproduction -- Talking to Oneself -- The (Dis)Information Era -- A Time of Crisis -- Language and Power -- Of Utopic Futures -- Chapter Three Consumer Culture's "Collateral Damage" -- Invisible Lives -- Everyday Death -- Of Meat Consumption -- Conclusion -- Chapter Four A Consumer's Dreams and Nightmares -- Galera's Mãos de cavalo: A Mass-Mediated Sensibility Laub's A maçã envenenada: Between Kurt Cobain and Imaculée Ilibagiza -- Conclusion -- Chapter Five Working-Class Consumption -- Consuming Together -- Aesthetic Interruptions of the Mundane -- Low and High -- Tactical Consumption -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- About the Book -- About the Author

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Brazilian fiction--History and criticism.--21st century
Consumption (Economics) in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American
Brazilian fiction.
Consumption (Economics) in literature.

PQ9603.2 / B494 2022

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