Wasting Away
(De)Composing Trash in the Contemporary Brazilian Documentary
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4015038 |
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| Authors | Steven F Butterman (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Pages | 295-304 |
| Publication date | 2016-09-20 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1521-804X • E-ISSN: 2573-1432 |
| Publisher | University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.62791/891gdc42 |
| OpenAlex | W1513995696 |
| Language | EN |
This essay examines the metaphor of garbage in contemporary Brazilian documentary to problematize issues of race, class, and gender, focusing especially on Marcos Prado's feature-length Estamira (2004). Utilizing the postmodern decomposition of antropofagia (coprofagia), theorized by Brazilian poet and cultural critic Glauco Mattoso as well as considerations of recent feminist thought, this essay will examine how the motif of lixo in recent Brazilian film serves to critique contemporary Brazilian social and economic policies by revealing a society that discovers itself-and ironically, its own value and values-through the garbage it produces
Aesthetics · Art · Garbage · Literature · Metaphor · Postmodernism · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues · Gender Studies · Health, Medicine and Society · Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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