Spectacle and Rebellion in Fin-de-Siècle Brazil: the Commodified Rebel in Machado de Assis's Chronicles. | Zendy

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Spectacle and Rebellion in Fin-de-Siècle Brazil: the Commodified Rebel in Machado de Assis's Chronicles.

Author(s) -

Carolina Sá Carvalho

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

journal of lusophone studies

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.1

H-Index - 2

ISSN - 2469-4800

DOI - 10.21471/jls.v3i2.174

Subject(s) - fin de siecle , bourgeoisie , spectacle , authoritarianism , commodification , consumer society , newspaper , power (physics) , humanities , state (computer science) , art history , history , art , sociology , media studies , political science , democracy , law , politics , physics , neoclassical economics , algorithm , quantum mechanics , economics , computer science , market economy

In the present article, I examine Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis’s five chronicles, published between 1894-1897 in the Rio de Janeiro newspaper A Gazeta de Noticias , on the Brazilian Republic’s assault against the Canudos community in Northeasten Brazil. Focusing on Machado’s critique of the role of communication technologies, and particularly print news, in fin de siecle Brazil, I argue that he makes use of the transformation of the messianic community into a national mediatic event to thematize the birth of a consumer society, the violent expansion of global capitalist networks and state power, authoritarianism, and the contradictory values of what he refers to as "bourgeois industrial society."

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