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  • av Susan Marie Powers
    172,-

  • av Monteiro Lobato
    246,-

    A translation of Monteiro Lobato's "O Presidente Negro ou O Choque das Raças," presented in a bilingual format with English alongside the original Portuguese. Monteiro Lobato was one of Brazil's most imaginative writers. He is best known for his children's series about the bizarre adventures of a feisty little girl and her irreverent rag doll. But Black President: Clash of the Races-the only novel he wrote for adult readers-takes an even wilder ride through Lobato's strange, intriguing perspective on humanity. Originally titled The Black President, the story is about a young man and woman in Brazil who use a high-tech scope that can see into the future. They follow events in the United States in the year 2228 as Black and white voters vie to elect a president of their own race. It's close until a feminist candidate pits men against women regardless of race. The story inevitably reflects some of the racism that was accepted as normal in the 1920s, when the book was written. At the same time, it opens racism to everyone's view as the fictional characters grapple with it. And suddenly, a Black man becomes President of the United States. Hard to believe? Not a hundred years after the book was written. But three centuries later, as Lobato tells the story, a Black president is simply not acceptable to whites. And then things get ugly. Ana Lessa-Schmidt's insightful and nuanced translation is the first English version of this Brazilian classic. It was shocking in 1926, and it's even more shocking today.

  • av Glenn Alan Cheney
    456,-

  • av Glenn Alan Cheney
    377,-

  • av Monteiro Lobato
    402,-

    Originally titled The Black President, or The Clash of the Races, by Brazilian writer Monteiro Lobato, the story is about a young man and woman in Brazil who use a high-tech scope that can see into the future. They follow events in the United States in the year 2228 as Black and white voters vie to elect a president of their own race. It's close until a feminist candidate pits men against women regardless of race. And suddenly, a Black man becomes President of the United States. Hard to believe? Not a hundred years after the book was written. But three centuries later, as Lobato tells the story, a Black president is simply not acceptable to whites. And then things get ugly. It was shocking in 1926, and it's even more shocking today. The story inevitably reflects some of the racism that was accepted as normal in the 1920s, when the book was written. At the same time, it opens racism to everyone's view as the fictional characters grapple with it. An introduction by Vanete Santana-Dezmann puts the racism and the story itself into historical and literary perspective. Ana Lessa-Schmidt's insightful and nuanced translation is the first bilingual edition of this Brazilian classic. The original Portuguese appears alongside the English translation.

  • av Glenn Alan Cheney
    304,-

  • av Leminski Paulo Leminski & Santana Ivan Justen Santana
    388,-

  • - Nature Meditations in Word and Watercolor
    av Judy Benson
    223,-

  • av Glenn Alan Cheney
    175 - 304,-

  • av Monteiro Lobato
    276,-

  • - A Ranking of the 30 Most Influential Figures in Western History
    av Ian Alan Cheney
    318,-

  • av Rubem Alves
    304,-

  • av Rubem Alves
    290,-

  • - Bits of Wisdom from Rubem Alves
    av Rubem Alves
    246,-

  • av Glenn Alan Cheney
    290,-

  • av Mário de Andrade & Viviane Carvalho Da Annunciacao
    304,-

    Brazil in the 1920s was going through many transformations. A new republic was shedding old moralities. Agrarianism was urbanizing. Social mobility was cutting across classes. A nation in search of a new culture was reaching out to the sophistication of Europe.In this setting, Mário de Andrade tells the story of a Brazilian teen and a young German woman. He was born into a wealthy family; she was trying to make a living away from her country, carrying the emotional baggage of the Great War in the Old World. He was a student, she a teacher. But her lessons would soon go beyond language, literature, and music.She'd also learn a little something herself. Brazilian culture, in those heady boisterous years, was complicated. Love was taking on new meaning. Could love be a transitive verb, uniting subject and object? Or would it best be left intransitive, a subject all alone with an emotion?Mário de Andrade's unique use of language and his insights into life contributed to an upheaval in not only in Brazilian culture but in Brazilian literature, inspiring the nation's Modernist movement. This bilingual edition presents the original Portuguese alongside Ana Lessa-Schmidt's careful and creative English interpretation of Andrade's Modernist style.

  • - The Bons Dias! Chronicles of Machado de Assis (1888-1889)
    av Machado de Assis
    350,-

  • - Notes on Incarceration
    av Glenn Alan Cheney
    272,-

    Brief, insightful notes on prisons, prisoners, and imprisonment, touching on history, atrocities, events, effects, and mostly, the possibilities of reform.

  • - Five Stories by Machado de Assis
     
    276,-

  • av Rubem Alves
    299,-

  • - Bilingual Edition
    av Joao de Rio
    444,-

  • - The Pilgrims' First Year in America
    av Glenn Alan Cheney
    202 - 404,-

  • - Encounters in the Mountains of Brazil
    av Glenn Alan Cheney
    351,-

  • av Machado de Assis, Greicy Pinto Bellin & Ana Lessa-Schmidt
    251 - 430,-

  • - Stories by Machado de Assis
    av Glenn Alan Cheney, Rachel Kopit & Luciana Tanure
    430,-

  • - Courage, Compassion, Charism, and the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
    av Glenn Alan Cheney
    304,-

  • - Memoir of a Missionary Sister of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
    av Sr Maria Barbagallo Msc
    290,-

  • - Bilingual Edition
    av João Do Rio
    430,-

  • - Press Accounts of the Death of Lincoln, the Hunt for Booth, and America in Mourning
     
    391,-

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