Lyrical Guides to the Peripheries of Rio de Janeiro: Two Historical Moments

TY - CHAP

T1 - Lyrical Guides to the Peripheries of Rio de Janeiro

T2 - Two Historical Moments

AU - De Oliveira Botelho Correa, Felipe

PY - 2017

Y1 - 2017

N2 - This chapter focuses on autobiographical discourses of two writers living in the peripheries of Rio de Janeiro in two different moments: Lima Barreto in the early twentieth century and Marcus Vinicius Faustini in the early twentieth-first century. I will argue that the works of these writers challenge frequent representations of urban peripheries in Brazil (violence, carnival, underdevelopment, etc.). I will show how their lyrical guides create a different diction and a innovative response to the “exoticism” that commonly appears in the representations of the everyday life of these areas of the city. In their stories, different maps of the city are drawn, creating a a social history of Rio’s suburbs and their inhabitants.

AB - This chapter focuses on autobiographical discourses of two writers living in the peripheries of Rio de Janeiro in two different moments: Lima Barreto in the early twentieth century and Marcus Vinicius Faustini in the early twentieth-first century. I will argue that the works of these writers challenge frequent representations of urban peripheries in Brazil (violence, carnival, underdevelopment, etc.). I will show how their lyrical guides create a different diction and a innovative response to the “exoticism” that commonly appears in the representations of the everyday life of these areas of the city. In their stories, different maps of the city are drawn, creating a a social history of Rio’s suburbs and their inhabitants.

M3 - Chapter

SN - 9781138230316

SP - 210

BT - Literature and Ethics in Contemporary Brazil

A2 - de Carvalho, Vinicius Mariano

A2 - Gavioli, Nicola

PB - Routledge

ER -