Body Parts on Planet Slum: Women and Telenovelas in Brazil - Rilegato

Brown, Lisa Beljuli

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ISBN 10: 0857287974 ISBN 13: 9780857287977

Casa editrice: Anthem Pr, 2011

Riassunto

Based on a year’s research from within a Brazilian slum, this study follows a series of unemployed women who watch up to six hours of telenovelas a day, often in the midst of arduous physical labour in the home. The women suffer in relation to their bodies, but simultaneously invest in a masochistic glorification of suffering that links their lives to the soap operas, revealing disturbing valuations of the female body that traverse reality and fiction. Through its exploration of this daily integration of real suffering and fictional glamour and wealth, ‘Body Parts on Planet Slum’ reveals how fantasy and social exclusion can together induce a form of psychological survivalism, enabling these women to reconfigure the central features of their existence – their suffering, pleasure, sexuality and embodiment.

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Recensione:

‘This bold study, moving between feminism, media studies and a social theory of global poverty [...] demonstrates that the diet of telenovelas destroys and yet sustains the women who constitute the poorest of the urban poor in the most “African” of Brazil’s provinces.’ —Liz Gunner, ‘Psychology in Society’

Descrizione del libro:

A fascinating look into how women use soap operas to reconfigure suffering, pleasure, sexuality and embodiment.

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• Editore: Anthem Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0857287974
• ISBN 13: 9780857287977
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 175