Moisés Lino e Silva: Minoritarian Liberalism

A Travesti Life in a Brazilian Favela. USA 2022, 240 pp., brochure, € 39.95
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University of Chicago Press
A ethnography of the largest favela in Rio, where residents articulate their own politics of freedom against the backdrop of multiple forms of oppression. Liberalism mostly has promoted the freedom of privileged subjects, those entitled to rights-usually white, adult, heteronormative, and bourgeois - at the expense of marginalized groups, such as black people, children, lesbians, gays, transsexuals, and slum dwellers. ... Weiterlesen

Bruno Barreto (R): Reaching for the Moon

Brasilien 2013, portug. OF, engl. SF, engl. UT, 118 Min., € 19.99
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Biopic about the American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Elizabeth Bishop and her passionate, real-life love affair with Brazilian architect Lota de Macedo Soares. Based on the bestselling novel »Rare and Commonplace Flowers«, the film follows Bishop as a creative block prompts her to accept the invitation of a college friend to stay with her and her partner, Lota, on a sprawling ... Weiterlesen

Federico G. Carvajal: Butterflies Will Burn

USA 2003, 310 pp., brochure, € 33.99
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As Spain consolidated its Empire in the 16th and 17th centuries, discourses about the perfect Spanish man or »vir« went hand-in-hand with discourses about another kind of man, one who engaged in the »abominable crime and sin against nature« - sodomy. In both Spain and Mexico, sodomy came to rank second only to heresy as a cause for prosecution, and ... Weiterlesen

Carmen L. Oliveira: Rare and Commonplace Flowers: The Story of Elizabeth Bishop and Lota de Macedo Soares

UK 2002, 2018 pp., brochure, € 39.95
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Elizabeth Bishop, the Pulitzer Prize - winning American poet, sought artistic inspiration in Brazil. There she met and fell in love with Lota de Macedo Soares, a self-trained Brazilian architect. This dual biography ? brilliantly researched, and written in a lively, novelistic style ? follows their relationship from 1951 to 1967, the time when the two lived together in Brazil. ... Weiterlesen

Elliot Goldenthal: Frida OST

CD mit 24 Tracks, € 11.95
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Universal
Zu der fulminanten Verfilmung der bisexuellen mexikanischen Künstler Frida Kahlo gehört untrennbar ein grandioser Soundtrack. Die Auswahl der Tracks kann sehr wohl auch für sich bestehen: eindrucksvolle, stimmungsvolle, südamerikanische Lieder gehen eine eigenwillige Synthese mit modernen soundtracktypischen Klangteppichen ein. Dem surrealen Wahnwitz der Bilder von Frida Kahlo steht eine irrwitzige Musikauswahl gegenüber, die die Wirkung des Filmes über weite Strecken ... Weiterlesen