Brazil and France have explored each other's geographical and cultural landscapes for more than five hundred years. The Brazilian je ne sais quoi has captivated the French from their first encounter, and the ingenuity à francesa of French artistic and scholarly movements has intrigued Brazilians in kind. Ongoing Brazil-France interactions have resulted in some of the richest cultural exchanges between Europe and Latin America. In Cultural Exchanges between Brazil and France, leading international scholars evaluate these reciprocal transnational explorations, from the earliest French interventions in Brazil in the sixteenth century to the growing mutual influence that the nations have exerted on one another in the twenty-first century. Original interdisciplinary essays examine cross-cultural interactions and collaborations in the social sciences, intellectual history, the press, literature, cinema, plastic arts, architecture, cartography, and sport. The comparative cultural method used in these analyses deepens the collective treatment of crucial junctures in the long history of often harmonious, but also sometimes ambivalent and occasionally contentious, encounters between Brazil and France.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1: Early French Visions and Revisions of Brazil
Chapter 1: Representing the Tupinambá and the Brazilwood Trade in Sixteenth-Century Rouen, by Amy J. Buono
Chapter 2: The Myth of the Noble Frenchman and the Politics of Friendship and Enmity in Sixteenth-Century Brazil, by Luciana Villas Bôas
Chapter 3: The "Other" Brazil of Léry and Lévi-Strauss, by Susan L. Rosenstreich
Chapter 4: Bernardin's L'Amazone as a Post-Enlightenment Brazilian Utopia, by Christophe Ippolito
Part 2: French Ideological Moves in Brazil
Chapter 5: Critical Transfers between Brazil and France and the Nineteenth-Century Press, by André Caparelli
Chapter 6: Fora da ordem, or on Time and Travel in Cunha and Lévi-Strauss, by Javier Uriarte
Chapter 7: The French University Mission to Brazil, Racial Theory, and the Formation of a New Social Science Paradigm, by Andrew R. Dausch
Part 3: Reciprocal Transformations between Brazil and France
Chapter 8: Brazilian Bandidos after French Antiheroes, by Maryam Monalisa Gharavi
Chapter 9: Niemeyer's Headquarters for the French Communist Party, 1965-1980, by Vanessa Grossman
Chapter 10: Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost, and the Specter of Death, by Bécquer Medak-Seguín
Chapter 11: Neto's Leviathan Thot in the Panthéon, a Phallocentric Performing Theater, by Samantha E. Wilson
Part 4: Thematic Bibliography
Bibliography for the Study of Cultural Exchanges between Brazil and France
Index
Regina R. Félix teaches Portuguese language and Brazilian, International, and Women’s Studies’ courses at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Her research in Brazilian culture, film, and literature focuses on the gender, race, and class structures of power relations in national, global, and postcolonial frameworks. She is the author of Sedução e Heroísmo—Imaginação de Mulher, which examines women’s discursive entrée in the Brazilian nineteenth-century male-dominated literary field.
Scott D. Juall teaches French and Francophone Studies at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. His courses address early modern European imperialism in the New World, French immigrant narratives, and Francophone postcolonialism. He has published on ideological conflicts in early modern travel narratives and edited Early Modern French Travel Writing and Encounters with Alterity.
