Clippings on landscape: a reading of Brazil and other texts of Elizabeth Bishop / Recortes na paisagem: uma leitura de Brazil e outros textos de Elizabeth Bishop

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2009

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The aim of this work is to annotate, translate, and comment a part of the writings by Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), the North-American writer, who lived in Brazil for approximately twenty years, focusing on her journalistic texts about that country. Her largest piece is a book called Brazil (1962) which was commissioned by the editors of Life magazine. However, the book was rejected by the author who refused to accept the interventions made by the editors. As a result, they co-authored it. Comparing the original (preserved in the Bishop archives at Vassar College) with the published text allows us to compare two different views of Brazil, to highlight similarities and especially the important contrasts between them. A research on the period the book was published focused on the authors life, as well as on the history of both Brazil and the U.S.A. helps to understand not only the text itself, but also how it was written and the episodes associated to its edition. The present work includes five additional texts, remains of a project that was abandoned by Bishop: the making of another book on Brazil. Two of these texts have remained unpublished to date, even in English.

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elizabeth bishop 1911-1979 interpretações do brasil 1950-1970 interpretations of brazil 1950-1970 elizabeth bishop 1911-1979 tradução - anotação - comentários translation - annotation - commentary literatura e jornalismo - século xx literature and society - brazil - 20th century literatura e sociedade - brasil - século xx literature and journalism - 20th century

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