Idelber Avelar
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Idelber Avelar's Degrees
- PhD Comparative Literature University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Comparative Literature University of California, Berkeley
Why Is Idelber Avelar Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Idelber Avelar is a Brazilian scholar working in the field of literary and cultural studies. In 2000, the academic community took note of his book, The Untimely Present: Postdictatorial Latin American Fiction and the Task of Mourning , while the public at large came to know him through his blog, O Biscoito Fino e a Massa , in which he discussed politics, pop culture, and literature. His work deals with the literary representation of Latin-American dictatorships and the way culture deals with the repercussions of said regimes.
Idelber Avelar's Published Works
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Published Works
- The Untimely Present: Postdictatorial Latin American Fiction and the Task of Mourning (1999) (249)
- The Letter of Violence: Essays on Narrative, Ethics, and Politics (2005) (28)
- Heavy Metal Music in Postdictatorial Brazil: Sepultura and the Coding of Nationality in Sound (2003) (27)
- Brazilian Popular Music and Citizenship (2011) (21)
- Amerindian Perspectivism and Non-Human Rights (2013) (20)
- Five Theses on Torture (2001) (16)
- Contemporary Intersections of Ecology and Culture: On Amerindian Perspectivism and the Critique of Anthropocentrism (2014) (7)
- Toward a genealogy of latin americanism (1997) (7)
- Restitution and Mourning in Latin American Postdictatorship (1999) (6)
- The Letter of Violence (2004) (6)
- The Untimely Present (2020) (6)
- The June 2013 Uprisings and the Waning of Lulismo in Brazil (2017) (6)
- Unpacking the "Human" in "Human Rights": Bare Life in the Age of Endless War (2009) (5)
- The Ethics of Interpretation and the International Division of Intellectual Labor (2000) (5)
- Otherwise National: Locality and Power in the Art of Sepultura (2011) (4)
- A Response to Fabiano Santos and Fernando Guarnieri* (2017) (4)
- Mangue Beat Music and the Coding of Citizenship in Sound (2020) (4)
- Dictatorship and immanence (1998) (2)
- The Muffled Cries: The Writer and Literature in Authoritarian Brazil, 1964-1985 (review) (2001) (2)
- History, Neurosis, and Subjectivity: Gustavo Ferreyra’s Rewriting of Neoliberal Ruins (2009) (1)
- The angle of history's forged signature: the ruins of memory and the task of mourning in a Brazilliam post-dictatorial novel: the ruins of memory and the task of mourning in a Brazilliam post-dictatorial novel (1998) (0)
- Divergent Modernities: Culture and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Latin America (review) (2001) (0)
- Pastiche, Repetition, and the Angel of History’s Forged Signature (2012) (0)
- The Unmourned Dead and the Promise of Restitution (2012) (0)
- Juan José Nieto's Ingermina: Antagonism and Allegory in the Origins of the Caribbean Novel (2011) (0)
- Inscriptions of Inequality in Latin American Literary and Cultural Studies (2009) (0)
- Encrypting Restitution: A Detective Story in the City of the Dead (2012) (0)
- Overcodification of the Margins: The Figures of the Eternal Return and the Apocalypse (2012) (0)
- International Division of Intellectual Labor1 (2016) (0)
- The Muffled Cries: The Writer and Literature in Authoritarian Brazil, 1964-1985 (review) (2001) (0)
- Bildungsroman at a Standstill, or the Weakening of Storytelling (2012) (0)
- Oedipus in Post-Auratic Times: Modernization and Mourning in the Spanish American Boom (2012) (0)
- The Music of Brazil in the Eyes of Anglo-American Academic Literature (2018) (0)
- The Genealogy of a Defeat: Latin American Culture under Dictatorship (2012) (0)
- Ethics and Citizenship in the Blogosphere: Academics Meet New Technologies of Online Publication (2007) (0)
- The Angel of History's Forged Signature: The Ruins of Memory and the Task of Mourning in a Brazilian Postdictatorial Novel (1998) (0)
- Revisions of Masculinity under Dictatorship (2017) (0)
- Reviews of masculinity under dictatorship: Gabeira, Caio and Noll (2014) (0)
- Contributors (2019) (0)
- An Anatomy of Marginality: Figures of the Eternal Return and the Apocalypse in Chilean Post-Dictatorial Fiction (1999) (0)
- Energia limpa e limpeza étnica (2020) (0)
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