The Coup e Brazil

Uma leitura do Norte pelo Sul

Bibliographic Data

ID5772611
AuthorsCarla Alexandra Ferreira (0000-0002-2706-5766, corresponding author)
Year2004
Publication date2004-06-28
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeTHESIS
PublisherUniversidade de São Paulo. Agência de Bibliotecas e Coleções Digitais (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.11606/t.8.2004.tde-18112003-112002
OpenAlexW4205880378
LanguageEN
References cited14

The objective of this thesis is to study the novels The Coup and Brazil, by John Updike, in order to show that much more than presenting contradictions from the countries where they are settled, these novels deal with the United States -the author's constant theme.Both novels show, through a formal organization which is different from the rest of the author's literary work, a vision the central countries have of the peripheral countries and, by showing its perception of the Other, North speaks about itself.Thus, through a political reading -as proposed by Fredric Jameson -of these novels, it is possible to verify how elementssuch as the Cold War, expansionism, historical irreversibility, racial equality, for instance, demonstrate the moviment of the caitalist mode of production in which the United States are protagonist.It is this revelation, hidden by the strategies of containment and in the form of the novels, which I propose to map in the (re)reading of these literary texts

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