City of God

New Left Review

Volumn , Issue 12, 2001, Pages 103-112

  Schwarz, Roberto ^a  

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References (10)

1. Companhia das Letras: São Paulo, 85 7164 680 5.
2. Goddess, of Yoruba origin.
3. 'Dialética da malandragem', 1970; see Antonio Candido, On Literature and Society, Princeton 1995, pp. 79-103. Candido's essay is a study of the novel by Manuel Antônio de Almeida, Memórias de um sargento de milícias (1854-55), taken as an example of a dialectic between order and disorder profoundly characteristic of Brazilian popular existence. The Princeton editors decline to translate malandragem-roughly, 'roguery' - which refers to the specifically Brazilian figure of the malandro, a layabout and trickster, living on the edge of legality. He is often portrayed as Zé Pelintra, Joe the Rogue - a black man, whose skin-colour denotes poverty but who wears a natty white suit, two-tone shoes and a slouched hat.
4. 'Dialética da malandragem', 1970; see Antonio Candido, On Literature and Society, Princeton 1995, pp. 79-103. Candido's essay is a study of the novel by Manuel Antônio de Almeida, Memórias de um sargento de milícias (1854-55), taken as an example of a dialectic between order and disorder profoundly characteristic of Brazilian popular existence. The Princeton editors decline to translate malandragem-roughly, 'roguery' - which refers to the specifically Brazilian figure of the malandro, a layabout and trickster, living on the edge of legality. He is often portrayed as Zé Pelintra, Joe the Rogue - a black man, whose skin-colour denotes poverty but who wears a natty white suit, two-tone shoes and a slouched hat.
5. 'Dialética da malandragem', 1970; see Antonio Candido, On Literature and Society, Princeton 1995, pp. 79-103. Candido's essay is a study of the novel by Manuel Antônio de Almeida, Memórias de um sargento de milícias (1854-55), taken as an example of a dialectic between order and disorder profoundly characteristic of Brazilian popular existence. The Princeton editors decline to translate malandragem-roughly, 'roguery' - which refers to the specifically Brazilian figure of the malandro, a layabout and trickster, living on the edge of legality. He is often portrayed as Zé Pelintra, Joe the Rogue - a black man, whose skin-colour denotes poverty but who wears a natty white suit, two-tone shoes and a slouched hat.
6. Bocas-de-fumo: places where marijuana and other drugs are bought and sold.
7. Paulo Leminski, 1944-1989. Born in the southern state of Paraná, Leminski used the stylistic devices of Concretism to create an irreverent popular poetry.
8. Père Goriot, 1835.
9. Graciliano Ramos, 1936; trans. Anguish, 1946.
10. Robert Kurz, Der Kollaps der Modernisierung, Frankfurt 1991, p. 225.