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The Ripple Effect

Gender and Race in Brazilian Culture and Literature

Maria José Somerlate Barbosa

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In The Ripple Effect: Gender and Race in Brazilian Culture and Literature, Barbosa adopts a comparative, multilayered, and interdisciplinary line of research to examine social values and cultural mores from the first decades of the twentieth century to the present. By analyzing the historical, cultural, religious, and interactive space of Brazil’s national identity, The Ripple Effect surveys expressive cultures and literary manifestations. It uses the martial art-dance-ritual capoeira as a lynchpin to disclose historical ambiguities and the negotiation of cultural and literary boundaries within the context of the ideological construct of a mestizo nation. The book also examines laws governing gender in Brazil and discusses honor killings and other types of violence against women. The Ripple Effect appraises the contributions that some iconic female figures have made to the development of Brazil’s distinctive cultural and literary production. Drawing on more than fifteen years of field, archival, and scholarly research, this work offers new interpretative venues, and broadens the critical focus and the methodological scope of previous scholarship. It reveals how literature and other arts can be used to document cultural norms, catalog life experiences, and analyze complex constructions of social values, ideas, and belief systems.

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— <b>Floyd Merrell</b>, Professor Emeritus, Purdue University
" <i>The Ripple Effect</i> delicately blends aspects of anthropology, sociology, political science, cultural adoption, and adaptation. This is no typical academic text—the narrative commendably reveals the author's words and opinions following considerable contemplation, retrospection, and thought, demonstrating the author's disciplined scholarly research, complemented by what entails considerably productive time spent in Brazil. This book enigmatically manifests women's changing place in society and ethnic blending's evolutionary alterations in a most complex sense."
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race, literary boundaries, Brazil, gender studies, national identity, mestizo nation, society, cultural boundaries, soccer, performing arts, capoeira, sports, Afro-Brazilian, comparative literature, Brazilian popular culture, music, Brazilian literature, gender inequalities, songs, gender