Brazil under Construction Fiction and Public Works

Başlık:

ISBN:

9781137322487

Personal Author:

Beal, S. author.

Edition:

1st ed. 2013.

Yayın Bilgileri:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Fiziksel Tanımlama:

XII, 198 p. 7 illus. online resource.

Series:

New Directions in Latino American Cultures,

Abstract:

Brazil under Construction tracks how Brazil's major public works projects and the fiction surrounding them mark a twofold construction of the nation: the functional construction of the country's public infrastructure and the symbolic construction of nationhood.

Subject Term:

Literature.

Ethnology -- Latin America.

Culture.

Social policy.

Civilization -- History.

America -- Politics and government.

Public administration.

World Literature.

Latin American Culture.

Cultural History.

American Politics.