{"id":32949,"date":"2013-08-18T21:01:27","date_gmt":"2013-08-18T21:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=32949"},"modified":"2013-08-18T21:01:27","modified_gmt":"2013-08-18T21:01:27","slug":"study-analyzes-ambiguities-in-the-works-of-aluisio-azevedo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=32949","title":{"rendered":"Study analyzes ambiguities in the works of Alu\u00edsio Azevedo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/agencia.fapesp.br\/en\/17129\" target=\"_blank\">Study analyzes ambiguities in the works of Alu\u00edsio Azevedo<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/agencia.fapesp.br\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ag\u00eancia FAPESP: News Agency of the Sao Paulo Research Foundation<\/a><br \/>\n2011-06-08<\/p>\n<p><strong>Karina Toledo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ag\u00eancia FAPESP\u00a0\u2014<em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/O_Mulato\" target=\"_blank\">The Mulatto<\/a><\/em>, by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alu%C3%ADsio_Azevedo\" target=\"_blank\">Alu\u00edsio Azevedo<\/a>, is a title that refers to the collective human state. It does not mention a character or a specific situation, but rather a human category that is very important for understanding the process of Brazil\u2019s formation.<\/p>\n<p>This analysis is presented by sociologist Rodrigo Estramanho de Almeida in the book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=32937\" target=\"_blank\"><em>A realidade da fic\u00e7\u00e3o. Ambiguidades liter\u00e1rias e sociais em \u2018O Mulato\u2019 de Alu\u00edsio Azevedo<\/em> (<em>The reality of fiction. Literary and social ambiguities in \u201cThe Mulatto\u201d by Alu\u00edsio Azevedo<\/em>)<\/a>, released by Alameda Casa Editorial on March 15.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The starting point for this analysis is the second book published by Alu\u00edsio Azevedo,<em> The Mulatto<\/em>. The researcher analyzes the contradictions found in this book, as these contradictions marked the entire literary trajectory of the Maranh\u00e3o author. Critics normally divide Azevedo\u2019s work into two categories: engaged (or activist) romance, filled with social criticism, and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/feuilletonesque\" target=\"_blank\">feuilletonesque<\/a> novels.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis ambiguity remains throughout the career of Alu\u00edsio. The writer himself made it clear in correspondence and newspaper texts that he was conscious of it and struggled with it. But I try to show that there is continuity in his works,\u201d commented Estramanho de Almeida in an interview with Ag\u00eancia FAPESP&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/agencia.fapesp.br\/en\/17129\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Study analyzes ambiguities in the works of Alu\u00edsio Azevedo Ag\u00eancia FAPESP: News Agency of the Sao Paulo Research Foundation 2011-06-08 Karina Toledo Ag\u00eancia FAPESP\u00a0\u2014The Mulatto, by Alu\u00edsio Azevedo, is a title that refers to the collective human state. It does not mention a character or a specific situation, but rather a human category that is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,83,21,1196,8],"tags":[15437,15436,485,15455,15451,15439],"class_list":["post-32949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","tag-agencia-fapesp","tag-agencia-fapesp-news-agency-of-the-sao-paulo-research-foundation","tag-aluisio-azevedo","tag-karina-toledo","tag-rodrigo-estramanho-de-almeida","tag-sao-paulo-research-foundation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}