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Brazil's Dark Secret: How 19th Century Novels Exposed a Slave-Driven Fake Modernity
A Comparative Perspective on the Rise of the Brazilian Novel
Think 19th century Brazilian novels are just polite love stories? Think again. They are brutal social dissections revealing a shocking truth: Brazil tried to run modern software on a slave-driven operating system. While Europe celebrated freedom, Brazil imported more slaves than ever to fuel global capitalism. This video, based on the book 'A Comparative Perspective on the Rise of the Brazilian Novel' by Ana Cláudia Suriani da Silva and Sandra Guini Vasconcelos (UCL Press), decodes how these novels expose the hidden engines of global capitalism, the erasure of labor, and the fake modernity of a nation built on stolen lives. Discover how writers like Machado de Assis turned polite European forms into weapons against the elite's control and hypocrisy. You'll never see classic literature the same way again.
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