Brazil: Representations of the sport and the body in the Portuguese literature of the 21st century
To the foreign eye, and for centuries, Brazil has been feeding the most diverse range of stereotypes. This article seeks to rescue some scenes and images, taken from Portuguese narratives of the 21st century, which focus on the sporting element and confirm this symbolic construction that Brazil carr...
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| description | To the foreign eye, and for centuries, Brazil has been feeding the most diverse range of stereotypes. This article seeks to rescue some scenes and images, taken from Portuguese narratives of the 21st century, which focus on the sporting element and confirm this symbolic construction that Brazil carries. In this sense, from passages referring to sports, in particular football, is intended to discuss cliches that contribute to the reiteration of a preconceived idea of Brazilians as cheerful, unreliable and sporty people. In addition, there is the physical body, inseparable from an active outdoors lifestyle, seen as the object of seduction and often associated with the innate sensuality trait of the Brazilian. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b2eb874e08aa41cdbdd978f5886741f52022-12-21T19:24:58ZengUniversidad de SalamancaRevista de Estudios Brasileños2386-45402018-08-0151017618910.14201/reb201851017618916797Brazil: Representations of the sport and the body in the Portuguese literature of the 21st centuryPaulo Ricardo KRALIK ANGELINI0Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do SulTo the foreign eye, and for centuries, Brazil has been feeding the most diverse range of stereotypes. This article seeks to rescue some scenes and images, taken from Portuguese narratives of the 21st century, which focus on the sporting element and confirm this symbolic construction that Brazil carries. In this sense, from passages referring to sports, in particular football, is intended to discuss cliches that contribute to the reiteration of a preconceived idea of Brazilians as cheerful, unreliable and sporty people. In addition, there is the physical body, inseparable from an active outdoors lifestyle, seen as the object of seduction and often associated with the innate sensuality trait of the Brazilian.https://revistas.usal.es/index.php/2386-4540/article/view/19930deportefútbolestereotipoidentidadliteratura |
| spellingShingle | Paulo Ricardo KRALIK ANGELINI Brazil: Representations of the sport and the body in the Portuguese literature of the 21st century Revista de Estudios Brasileños deporte fútbol estereotipo identidad literatura |
| title | Brazil: Representations of the sport and the body in the Portuguese literature of the 21st century |
| title_full | Brazil: Representations of the sport and the body in the Portuguese literature of the 21st century |
| title_fullStr | Brazil: Representations of the sport and the body in the Portuguese literature of the 21st century |
| title_full_unstemmed | Brazil: Representations of the sport and the body in the Portuguese literature of the 21st century |
| title_short | Brazil: Representations of the sport and the body in the Portuguese literature of the 21st century |
| title_sort | brazil representations of the sport and the body in the portuguese literature of the 21st century |
| topic | deporte fútbol estereotipo identidad literatura |
| url | https://revistas.usal.es/index.php/2386-4540/article/view/19930 |
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