Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil (Centennial Book)

Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780520075375
ISBN: 0520075374
Item Dimensions:157900216604
Label: University of California Press
Languages:EnglishUnknownEnglishOriginal LanguageEnglishPublished
Manufacturer: University of California Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 628
Publication Date: November 09, 1993
Publisher: University of California Press
Studio: University of California Press

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When lives are dominated by hunger, what becomes of love? When assaulted by daily acts of violence and untimely death, what happens to trust? Set in the lands of Northeast Brazil, this is an account of the everyday experience of scarcity, sickness and death that centres on the lives of the women and children of a hillside "favela". Bringing her readers to the impoverished slopes above the modern plantation town of Bom Jesus de Mata, where she has worked on and off for 25 years, the author follows three generations of shantytown women as they struggle to survive through hard work, cunning and triage. It is a story of class relations told at the most basic level of bodies, emotions, desires and needs. Most disturbing - and controversial - is her finding that mother love, as conventionally understood, is something of a bourgeois myth, a luxury for those who can reasonably expect, as these women cannot, that their infants will live. The author also wrote "Saints, Scholars and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland".

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