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af Tamar Guimarães.
145 sider.
ISBN: 978-85-63537-01-0
85,00 dkr. |
Tamar Guimarães:
A Man Called Love: Reading Xavier.
A Man Called Love: Reading Xavier is based on the story of Francisco Candido Xavier (1910 - 2002). Xavier was a celebrated psychic medium and psychographer - a technique of channeling spirits in order to write - who dedicated his life to notating the words spoken to him by disembodied spirits.
To speak of Xavier is also the speak of race, class and gender relations in Brazil and the military dictatorship which lasted from 1964 to 1985 - the period of Xavier's greatest popularity. His version of Spiritism was at once deeply utopian and deeply conservative, and A Man Called Love: Reading Xavier brings out the societal fault lines underlying his practice, intertwining Xavier, the military dictatorship and its resistance.
The book is published in cooperation with Capacete
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A Man Called Love: Reading Xavier er baseret på historien om Francisco Candido Xavier (1910 - 2002). Xavier var et berømt spiritistisk medie og psychographer -en skriftteknik til modtagelse af meddelelser fra afdøde ånder - der viede sit liv til at nedskrive de ord han modtog fra afdøde ånder.
Historien om Xavier handler også om race, klasse og køn i Brasilien i årene under militærdiktaturet fra 1964 - 1985, den samme periode hvor Xavier havde sin største popularitet.
Xaviers version af spiritismen var på samme tid utopisk og dybt konservativ. I A Man Called Love: Reading Xavier sammenflettes de forskellige samfundsmæssige brydningslinjer mellem Xavier, militærdiktaturet og dets modstandere.
Bogen udgives i samarbejde med Capacete |
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