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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| অনলাইন ব্যবহার করুন: | ONIX_20241105_9781612497587_27 |
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| description | 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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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1474912024-11-08T08:19:22Z Everyday Consumption in Twenty-First-Century Brazilian Fiction Bezerra, Lígia consumption consumer culture everyday life neoliberalism consumer capitalism mass media Brazilian culture Brazilian literature democracy twenty-first century 21st century Brazilian fiction contemporary Brazil contemporary Brazilian literature literatura de periferia social inequality and consumption consumption of information consumption and the environment cultural studies information bubble corporate culture environmental literature thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism 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. 2024-11-06T04:26:17Z 2024-11-06T04:26:17Z 2024-11-05T16:20:38Z 2022 book ONIX_20241105_9781612497587_27 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/94219 9781612497587 9781612497594 9781612497600 9781612496535 9781612497617 9781557538239 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/147491 eng Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures open access image/png image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/94219/1/9781612497617.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/94219/1/9781612497617.pdf Purdue University Press Purdue University Press ab0dc43b-863c-4471-84ed-f90e748ed075 9781612497587 9781612497594 9781612497600 9781612496535 9781612497617 9781557538239 Purdue University Press 252 West Lafayette open access |
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