Avelar, Idelber, 1968-
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Name (Latin)
Avelar, Idelber, 1968-
Date of birth
1968-10-31
Field of activity
Culture--Study and teaching
Latin American fiction
Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
Associate group
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Tulane University
Duke University
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- Avelar, Idelber. Transculturalción en suspenso, 2015:title page (Idelber Avelar) front cover flap (full professor of Latin American literatures and cultures at Tulane University; coeditor of Brazilian popular music and citizenship (2011), author of Crônicas do estado de exceção (2014),Figuras da violência: ensaios sobre ética, narrativa e múscia popular (2011) and Alegorías de la derrota: la ficción posdictatorial y el trabajo del duelo (2003); author of some 60 articles in US academic journals)
- Figuras da violência, 2011:t.p. (Idelber Avelar) back flap (graduated in belles-lettres, UFMG; Ph.D. in literature, Duke Univ.; professor, Tulane Univ., New Orleans)
- The untimely present, 1999:CIP t.p. (Idelber Avelar) CIP data sheet (b. Oct. 31, 1968)
- Tulane University WWW page 14 August 2015:School of Liberal Arts, Spanish & Portuguese (Idelber Avelar. Professor, Latin American Literaures and Intellectual Histoires, Critical Theory, Cultural studies; [email protected])
- LCN/11.2001 GG
Wikipedia description:
Idelber Avelar (Belo Horizonte, October 31, 1968) 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 Portuguese), 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.
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