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New York Public Library - Cullman Center presents
The Romance Of It All: Three Aspects Of Latin America: Part Two
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Carnival and the Samba Overlords
Presented as the Joanna Jackson Goldman Lectures in association with Harvard University Press
Length: 1 hr 30 mins
Intermission: None
Seating: General Admission
You choose your seats when you get to the theater.
he general myth about carnival is that it provides an occasion for turning the social order upside-down. In her second talk, Guillermoprieto shows how the opposite is true in Rio de Janeiro, and particularly on the hill of Mangueira, headquarters for Brazil's most beloved samba school. There, as elsewhere in Brazil, the prevalence of violence and drug trafficking has left most Brazilians with a life that is constantly, frighteningly and irremediably upside-down, and they look every year to carnival to impose a fleeting, joyful, order on it.
Alma Guillermoprieto is an award-winning journalist who has written about Latin America for more than twenty years. A frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books and the New Yorker, Guillermoprieto covered the insurrection against Anastasio Somoza in Nicaragua for the Guardian and broke the story of the massacre at El Mozote for the Washington Post. She is the author of four books: Samba, an account of the year she spent with the impoverished carnival-makers of Brazil that was nominated for the 1990 National Book Critics Circle Award; The Heart That Bleeds; and Looking for History: Dispatches from Latin America. Her latest book is Dancing with Cuba: A Memoir of the Revolution. Her work has been honored with a MacArthur Fellowship, a George Polk Award, and a Nieman Fellowship (Harvard University), among other awards, and she is a co-founder of the Fundacion Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano/ New Journalism Foundation, in Colombia. |
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