Ghettourism and Voyeurism, or Challenging Stereotypes and Raising Consciousness? Literary and Non-literary Forays into the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3817697
AutoresClaire Williams (0000-0002-0791-744X, University of Liverpool, autor de correspondencia)
Año2008
Volumen27
Número4
Páginas483-500
Fecha de publicación2008-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaBulletin of Latin American Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0261-3050 • E-ISSN: 1470-9856
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1470-9856.2008.00280.x
OpenAlexW2079469566
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas24
Referencias citadas11

This article will consider literary representations of the poorest parts of Rio de Janeiro and the ways they are romanticised or demonised according to the writer's agenda and the target audience. The growth in favela tours and hostels seems to indicate a voyeuristic interest in the poverty and danger represented in the images of Brazil that reach outside the country. Certainly, the number and variety of descriptions of favelas range from the poetic to the horrified, but all of them testify to the fascination these settlements exercise on the outsider. Travel writing, as well as investigative journalistic accounts (both fictional and factual), will be analysed, and references made to literature and film. Of particular interest are the ways in which poverty is 'performed' for the reader/spectator of literary texts, as well as the performance undertaken by the traveller/researcher/narrator in travel and scientific literature about the favelas

Aesthetics · Art · Literary criticism · Literature · Poetry · Political science · Poverty · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics · Voyeurism · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · History · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Psychology