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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Christian Emden , David Midgley , Kenneth David JacksonPublisher: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers Imprint: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers Edition: New edition Volume: 33 Weight: 0.667kg ISBN: 9781788740388ISBN 10: 1788740386 Pages: 392 Publication Date: 30 March 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsCONTENTS: Introduction to 100 Years of the Brazilian Avant-Garde - A Guide to Cannibal Kulchur. A Brazilian Modern Art Extravaganza: Amorous Cannibals, Savage Utopias, Hallucinated Cities, Transatlantic Encounters - The Modern Art Week of 1922 - The Cannibal Magazine and the Cannibal Manifesto - Transatlantic Voyages: Ethnography, Aesthetic Landscapes, Sonorities - Transatlantic Exchange: Brazilians in Europe / Europeans in Brazil - Portraits and Self-Portraits: Angels with Banana-Leaf Wings - Improvisation: Play and Excess - Eating the Self: The Modernist Artist as Cannibal - Legacy of a Transatlantic Avant-Garde.ReviewsKenneth David Jackson is one of the most prominent scholars devoted to Brazilian studies. A leading world researcher, David Jackson offers a groundbreaking contribution to the understanding of the Brazilian Avant-Garde, whose 100 years will be celebrated in 2022. A timely publication, this book will become a classic reference on the topic. (Professor Joao Cezar de Castro Rocha, State University of Rio de Janeiro) Cannibal Angels offers a timely and illuminating reconsideration of the Brazilian avant-garde and a rigorous examination of Brazil's entangled historical and cultural connections with Europe. Developing around such fertile themes as voyage, portraiture, improvisation, and utopian primitivism, and anchored in a wide-ranging and deeply knowledgeable transatlantic perspective, this probing exploration of Brazilian modernism is certain to remain an essential reference text for years to come. (Professor Luis Madureira, University of Wisconsin-Madison) Kenneth David Jackson is one of the most prominent scholars devoted to Brazilian studies. A leading world researcher, David Jackson offers a groundbreaking contribution to the understanding of the Brazilian Avant-Garde, whose 100 years will be celebrated in 2022. A timely publication, this book will become a classic reference on the topic. (JJoao Cezar de Castro Rocha, State University of Rio de Janeiro Luis Madureira, University of Wisconsin-Madison) Cannibal Angels offers a timely and illuminating reconsideration of the Brazilian avant-garde and a rigorous examination of Brazil's entangled historical and cultural connections with Europe. Developing around such fertile themes as voyage, portraiture, improvisation, and utopian primitivism, and anchored in a wide-ranging and deeply knowledgeable transatlantic perspective, this probing exploration of Brazilian modernism is certain to remain an essential reference text for years to come. (Professor Luis Madureira, University of Wisconsin-Madison) «Kenneth David Jackson is one of the most prominent scholars devoted to Brazilian studies. A leading world researcher, David Jackson offers a groundbreaking contribution to the understanding of the Brazilian Avant-Garde, whose 100 years will be celebrated in 2022. A timely publication, this book will become a classic reference on the topic.» (Professor João Cezar de Castro Rocha, State University of Rio de Janeiro) «Cannibal Angels offers a timely and illuminating reconsideration of the Brazilian avant-garde and a rigorous examination of Brazil’s entangled historical and cultural connections with Europe. Developing around such fertile themes as voyage, portraiture, improvisation, and utopian primitivism, and anchored in a wide-ranging and deeply knowledgeable transatlantic perspective, this probing exploration of Brazilian modernism is certain to remain an essential reference text for years to come.» (Professor Luís Madureira, University of Wisconsin–Madison) Author InformationKenneth David Jackson is Professor of Luso-Brazilian literatures and cultures at Yale University. Among his books are Machado de Assis: A Literary Life (Yale UP, 2015), Adverse Genres in Fernando Pessoa (Oxford UP, 2010), the Oxford Anthology of the Brazilian Short Story (2006), and Haroldo de Campos: A Dialogue with the Brazilian Concrete Poet (2005). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |