Marianne in the Market: Envisioning Consumer Society in Fin-de-Siecle France (review)

2003 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 367-368
Author(s):  
Lenard R. Berlanstein
Keyword(s):  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Consumer Society ◽  
Fin De Siècle

scholarly journals Spectacle and Rebellion in Fin-de-Siècle Brazil: the Commodified Rebel in Machado de Assis's Chronicles.

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolina Sá Carvalho
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
State Power ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Consumer Society ◽  
Print News ◽  
Fin De Siècle

In the present article, I examine Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis’s five chronicles, published between 1894-1897 in the Rio de Janeiro newspaper A Gazeta de Notícias, on the Brazilian Republic’s assault against the Canudos community in Northeasten Brazil. Focusing on Machado’s critique of the role of communication technologies, and particularly print news, in fin de siècle Brazil, I argue that he makes use of the transformation of the messianic community into a national mediatic event to thematize the birth of a consumer society, the violent expansion of global capitalist networks and state power, authoritarianism, and the contradictory values of what he refers to as "bourgeois industrial society."

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