Monday, June 08, 2020

Perversions on Parade: Brazilian Literature of Transgression and Postmodern Anti-Aesthetics in Glauco Mattoso -- San Diego State University Press #sdsupress


David Ornelas
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SDSU Press

Steven F. Butterman's Perversions on Parade: Brazilian Literature of Transgression and Postmodern Anti-Aesthetics in Glauco Mattoso is the first book-length scholarly treatment in English of the Brazilian poet Glauco Mattoso's work, some of which was written during Brazil's most recent dictatorship (1964-85).


The author highlights Mattoso's themes of homosexuality, fetishism, and symbolic sadomasochism within a context of a comparative examination of transgressive literature in the Western canon (for example, the French poete maudit, such as Rimbaud, Baudelaire, and Verlaine) with particular emphasis on Luso-Brazilian literature from the Middle Ages to the present.

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Perversions on Parade: Brazilian Literature of Transgression and Postmodern Anti-Aesthetics in Glauco Mattoso is a 2005 Hyperbole Books Volume. 

Christened in 2004 as an imprint of San Diego State University Press, Hyperbole Books is dedicated to publishing cutting-edge, over-the-top experiments in critical theory, literary criticism and graphic narrative. Imagine some odd, bastard child of SEMIOTEXT[e], Taschen, and Fantagraphics Books raised in the dumpster behind Powells, and you begin to wide the wave of Hyperbole Books. Remember, "Buy the Hype."

STEVEN BUTTERMAN is an Associate Professor of Portuguese at the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures with the College of Arts & Sciences in the University of Miami. He teaches a variety of subjects related to the Portuguese language, culture, and literature, including Brazilian poetry and short stories, Brazilian women writers in translation, 20th-century Luso-Afro-Brazilian literatures, and contemporary Lusophone film. Among Steven's research interests are Luso-Brazilian Cultural and Literary Studies, Gender and Sexuality (Queer) Studies, and LGMTQ Culture in Contemporary Brazil.


CRITICAL THEORY | CULTURAL STUDIES | QUEER THEORY | LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE | Perversions on Parade: Brazilian Literature of Transgression and Postmodern Anti-Aesthetics in Glauco Mattoso by Steven Butterman | SDSU PRESS | 2005 | trade paperback | List Price: $19.95

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