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Title KulturConfusão : on German-Brazilian interculturalities / edited by Anke Finger, Gabi Kathöfer and Christopher Larkosh
Published Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 331 pages) : illustrations
Series Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies ; volume19
Interdisciplinary German cultural studies ; v. 19.
Contents Kulturconfusão: on German-Brazilian hybridities and intercultural hermeneutics / Anke Finger, Gabi Kathöfer, and Christopher Larkosh -- Indigenous projections / Ute Ritz-Deutch -- Germans and Indians in Brazil: the transatlantic construction of ethnic identity in the discourse of Indian protection / Fernando Clara -- "Paradise with black angels": Brazil in eighteenth-century Germany / Gabi Kathöfer -- Devouring culture: cannibalism, national identity, and nineteenth-century German emigration to Brazil / Thomas O. Beebee -- Cultural entanglements and ethnographic refractions: Theodor Koch-Grünberg in Brazil -- Everyday cultures and media / Ricarda Musser -- German-Brazilian cultural exchange in the times of the dictatorship: the cultural magazine Intercâmbio / Andrew W. Hurley -- From documentation to dialogue: on bringing Brazilian popular music and jazz to West Germany / Ulrike Schröder -- Conceptual metaphors: a culture-specific construction of meaning using the "life is war" metaphor in Brazilian and German rap lyrics / Wolfgang Fuhrmann -- Transnational film history?: um cinema teuto-brasileiro -- Literary fusions and interstitial spaces / Horst Nitschack -- Tropical subjectivity and the European tradition of Bildung: -- Macunaíma, a hero without a character, by Mário de Andrade / Marlen Eckl -- "Everywhere paradise is lost": the Brazilian national myth in the works of refugees of Nazism / Christopher Larkosh -- Submarine: Germany resurfacing in the contemporary Brazilian novel / Edith Wolfe -- "Exiled from the world": German Expressionism, Brazilian Modernism and the interstitial primitivism of Lasar Segall / Rainer Guldin -- Between São Paulo and Stuttgart: multilingualism, translation, and interculturality in Haroldo de Campos's and Vilém Flusser's work
Summary "This collection examines cultural interactions between Germany and Brazil from the Early Modern period to the present day. The contributors represent various academic disciplines, including German Studies, Luso-Afro-Brazilian Studies, Cultural Studies, Linguistics, Art History and the social sciences. Their essays cover a wide range of works and media and offer a much-needed rethinking of the intercultural paradigm for the humanities."-- Provided by publisher
Analysis Brazilian
German
Interculturality
Literature
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Intercultural communication -- Germany
Intercultural communication -- Brazil
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Intercultural communication
International relations
SUBJECT Germany -- Relations -- Brazil
Brazil -- Relations -- Germany
Subject Brazil
Germany
Form Electronic book
Author Finger, Anke K., editor
Kathöfer, Gabi, editor.
Larkosh, Christopher, editor.
ISBN 9783110408225
3110408228