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Orpheus And The Racialized Body In Brazilian Film And Literature Of The Twentieth Century, Patrice Rankine
Orpheus And The Racialized Body In Brazilian Film And Literature Of The Twentieth Century, Patrice Rankine
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This paper argues for the significance of Orpheus as a racialized body in Brazil. A consistent feature of Orpheus in Brazil throughout the twentieth century is his blackness. This is the case in each of the three variations of the Orpheus myth in twentieth - century Brazilian drama and literature: Vinicius de Moraes' play, Orfeu da Conceição (Orpheus of Conception), Marcel Camus' Black Orpheus, and Carlos Diegues's Orfeu. Thus Brazilian Orpheus fit into a context not only of twentieth - century classical reception in Brazil and throughout the modern world, but also in discussions of …