Retracing Literary and Visual Aesthetics in Brazilian Cultural Production

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

Through analysis of contemporary films and texts from Brazil, this panel identifies the changing aesthetic representations of gender, sexuality, race and class. The geographies and spaces identified in these works highlight cultural trails created by the authors in their narrations of varying Brazilian realities. Novels, films, maps, and soap operas, serve as the means of reexamining how Brazilian citizens and their shared histories are presented as cultural production. This panel aims to underscore the differing processes of popular representation of marginalized subjectivities through close reading of these sources of cultural production.

Sub Track

• Literature and Culture: Interdisciplinary Approaches

Session Organizer

• Celia C Cordeiro, University of Texas at Austin

Chair

• Jessica Carey-Webb, University of Texas

Individual Presentations

• Charming Maids on Cheias de Charme: The Race and Gender Politics of Domestic Workers on Brazilian Television - Alida Perrine, University of Texas at Austin

• Gendered Politics of Empire: The Female Explorateur and Natural Histories of the Amazon Bain 1899-1901 - Jessica Carey-Webb, University of Texas

• Spaces of Sex, Prisms of Empire: Queering Sex Work in Northeastern Brazil From the Cabaré Maria Boa to World Cup Sex Tourism in Natal, RN - Sarah E Nicholus, University of Texas at Austin

• The Anthropologist as an aesthetic representation of Azorean collective memory in Santa Catarina, Brazil - Celia C Cordeiro, University of Texas at Austin

Discussant

• Sarah E Nicholus, University of Texas at Austin