Browse Hierarchy POR4033: Rio de Janeiro on the Global Stage and Imaginary

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What lurks behind a city¿s shifting sobriquets? The Cidade Maravilhosa (Marvellous City) mantra pays a tribute to Rio¿s elevation to the Post-War world screens for its `arresting combination of rock and water, white sand and emerald forest¿, beach culture within a metropolis, Bossa Nova and the Carnival spectacle. `A mutilated poem¿ can be a metaphor for representations of Rio by national and international writers on the pressures of international drug traffic on the locals. `A mega-event city¿ correlates with its bravura urbanisation, a fast-growing favela-originated literature on the locals¿ responses to their removal, and on the ethics of favela tourism versus market-oriented poverty voyeurism. A major discussion relates to Rio as an aspiring global city in connection with the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympic Games. Have the mega-events enabled the city to reinvent itself symbolically in the world¿s imaginary beyond the screen mantra or the literary realism of social implosion? Real or real Rio? A Global South perspective underpins the module. All literary and filmic texts are available in English.

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