1970s Brazil social conditions
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Brazilian industrial workforce
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Brazilian proletarian literature
Brazilian union activism
Cataguases Minas Gerais history
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city versus countryside contrasts
class struggle and solidarity
collective action and worker solidarity
economic hardship shaping families
emotional toll of urban migration
epistolary storytelling Latin America
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everyday life under repression
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factory worker life stories
family separation and sacrifice
generational duty and responsibility
grassroots organizing under dictatorship
historical fiction about labor rights
homesickness and nostalgia themes
human cost of economic development
immigrant experience within Brazil
intimate portrait of labor activism
letters from industrial Sao Paulo
migration from small towns to big cities
migration-driven family dynamics
military dictatorship era fiction
personal letters as narrative device
personal sacrifice for family welfare
political awakening of ordinary citizens
political unrest under authoritarian rule
portrayal of factory workers in literature
regional identity in Brazilian novels
social history of Sao Paulo industry
social justice themes in Latin American fiction
socioeconomic change in South America
urbanization effects on rural families
working class heroes in fiction
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working class migration in Brazil
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- ISBN 9781933227849
- Weight: 160g
- Dimensions: 132 x 213mm
- Publication Date: 30 Oct 2018
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Inspired by his own family's struggles, as well as the broader sociopolitical and economic forces that shaped Brazil in the 1970s, Luiz Ruffato's epistolary novel, Unremembering Me, traces the story of the narrator's older brother. Leaving behind his parents and younger siblings in order to assume financial responsibility for his family, Célio, a young factory hand from Cataguases, Minas Gerais, goes to work in industrial São Paulo. His letters home convey details about his work, living situation, adjustments to urban life, and fierce homesickness, even as they point to growing political unrest under the military dictatorship and Célio's increasing participation as a union organizer.
Luiz Ruffato is an acclaimed Brazilian novelist, journalist, and poet. His 2001 novel, There Were Many Horses, was the recipient of the Brazilian National Library's Machado de Assis Award and the APCA Award for best novel. De mim já nem se lembra (Unremembering Me) was first published in Brazil in 2007.
Marguerite Itamar Harrison is associate professor of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at Smith College.
Marguerite Itamar Harrison is associate professor of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at Smith College.
