The Muffled Cries: The Writer and Literature in Authoritarian Brazil, 1964-1985

by Nancy T. Baden

The Muffled Cries presents a multidisciplinary, historical, overview of the role of the writer and literature during Brazil's military dictatorship between 1964 and 1985. Nancy T. Baden brings together numerous sources, including personal interviews, periodicals, and books translated into English for the first time, to expose the ironies, subtleties, and complexities of the Brazilian cultural milieu under authoritarianism. She explores Brazilian fiction...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761814213
• ISBN13: 9780761814214
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 266 Pages