Candace Slater
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American academic and researcher specializing in Brazilian literature and culture
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Candace Slater's Degrees
- PhD Comparative Literature University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Comparative Literature University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors Comparative Literature University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Candace Slater is an American academic and researcher specializing in Brazilian literature and culture. She was born in Mineola, New York. Slater received a PhD from Stanford University. She is a professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Berkeley. Her primary area of research has been folk and popular traditions in Brazil, in other countries in Latin America and on the Iberian Peninsula.
Candace Slater's Published Works
Published Works
- Entangled Edens: Visions of the Amazon (2001) (63)
- Dance of the Dolphin. Transformation and Disenchantment in the Amazonian Imagination (1996) (49)
- Stories on a String: The Brazilian "Literatura de Cordel" (1983) (33)
- “All That Glitters”: Contemporary Amazonian Gold Miners' Tales (1994) (10)
- Trail of Miracles: Stories from a Pilgrimage in Northeast Brazil (1986) (9)
- In Search of the Rain Forest (2004) (8)
- Visions of the Amazon: What Has Shifted, What Persists, and Why This Matters (2015) (7)
- Marketing the ‘rain forest’: Raw Vanilla fragrance and the ongoing transformation of the jungle (2004) (7)
- City Steeple, City Streets: Saints' Tales from Granada and a Changing Spain (1993) (5)
- Geoparks and Geostories: Ideas of Nature Underlying the UNESCO Araripe Basin Project and Contemporary "Folk" Narratives (2011) (5)
- A vida no barbante : a literatura de cordel no Brasil (1984) (5)
- Brazil in the Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop (1977) (3)
- Reversible Readings: Ambiguity in Four Modern Latin American Novels (1986) (3)
- A Backlands Saints in the Big City: Urban Transformations of the Padre Cícero Tales (1991) (2)
- Environmental Social Sciences: Metaphors and myths in news reports of an Amazonian “Lost Tribe”: society, environment and literary analysis (2010) (2)
- Divine Inspiration: From Benin to Bahia (2008) (2)
- Terror in the Twin Towers: The Events of September 11 in the Brazilian Literatura de Cordel (2003) (2)
- The Poetry of Salvador Espriu: Bare Crag into Song (1977) (1)
- This Earth, That Sky (1990) (1)
- Fire in El Dorado, or Images of Tropical Nature and Their Practical Effects (2004) (1)
- Brazilian popular literature (the literatura de cordel) (1996) (1)
- What Books Should be More Widely Read in Environmental History? (2005) (1)
- The Hairy Leg Strikes: The Individual Artist and the Brazilian Literature de Cordel (1982) (1)
- 3. The Encante as a World in Motion (2019) (0)
- 7. Lakes within Lakes (2019) (0)
- From "The Poem of the Country Which Hungers" (1976) (0)
- 1. The Meeting of the Waters (2019) (0)
- VISIONS OF THE AMA ZON What Has Shifted, What Persists, and Why This Matters (2017) (0)
- Afterword: The Ongoing Search (2004) (0)
- 4. Warrior Women, Virgin Forests, and Green Hells (2019) (0)
- Brittany in the Writing of Paol Keineg (1976) (0)
- Mirrors of the present in stories of the past and prophecies of things to come: Contemporary commentaries by younger female pilgrims to Juazeiro do Norte (2019) (0)
- Of violence and the violence: Contemporary Colombian fiction (1976) (0)
- A selection of Manuel Bandeira's poetry, selected, translated, and with an introduction (1986) (0)
- Cordel and Canção in Today's Brazil (1982) (0)
- City Steeple, City Streets (2023) (0)
- Romanceiro Portugues do Canada (1981) (0)
- Chronology of Key Dates (2019) (0)
- Representations of Power in Pilgrim Tales from the Brazilian Northeast (1984) (0)
- 2. El Dorado and the Golden Legacy (2019) (0)
- Glossary of Selected Terms (2019) (0)
- Folk and Popular Stories of Enchantment as Inspiration for Milton Hatoum's Órfãos do Eldorado and Responses to a Changing Amazon (2014) (0)
- Robert A. Voeks, The Ethnobotany of Eden: Rethinking the Jungle Medicine Narrative (Chicago IL and London: University of Chicago Press, 2018), pp. xii + 321, $43.00, hardback, ISBN: 9780226547718978. (2020) (0)
- This Earth, That Sky: Poems (1989) (0)
- Dance of the Dolphin: Transformation and Disenchantment in the Amazonian Imagination. (1996) (0)
- Journey to Juazeiro (2015) (0)
- 5. Gold as a Woman (2019) (0)
- 6. Roots of the Rain Forest (2019) (0)
- Divine Inspiration: From Benin to Bahia:Divine Inspiration: From Benin to Bahia. (1994) (0)
- On the Road: Northeast Brazil (2005) (0)
- This Earth, That Sky@@@Alves & Co. (1991) (0)
- What Has Shifted, What Persists, and Why This Matters (2015) (0)
- New Perspectives in Brazilian Literary Studies: Symbolism Today (1985) (0)
- 8. Beyond Eden (2019) (0)
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