‘Casa Grande & Senzala’: Domestic Space and Class Conflict in Casa Grande and Que Horas Ela Volta?

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Cordiality and intimacy in contemporary Brazilian culture: introduction

“…In this special issue, the complex (even paradoxical) nature of the cordial and intimate relationships between domestic workers and their employers in Brazil are the focus of articles by Lúcia Sá, Stephanie Dennison and Gui Perdigão. Their analyses, together with those undertaken by Sônia Roncador (2014), Deborah Shaw (2017), Tiago de Luca (2017) and Rachel Randall (2018a, 2018b, constitute an important recognition and exploration of the significant, emerging interest in domestic work and domestic workers in Latin American cultural production. All of their articles draw on Freyre and Buarque de Holanda's frameworks, demonstrating that although their theories may appear "outdated", as Perdigão notes, their contribution to our ability to understand contemporary Brazilian society and culture remains critical.…”

Introduction

“…The articles that comprise this special issue build on the recent surge in critical analyses of domestic space in Southern Cone and Brazilian cinemas, which have demonstrated how the home has come to serve as the focal point for the erosion of any clear distinction between the public and private spheres (Page 2009;Luca 2017;Merchant 2017). Five of the six articles contained in this issue examine recent films made in Argentina, Chile and Brazil, while Liz Harvey-Kattou's analysis of Hernán Jiménez's oeuvre constitutes a valuable exploration of contemporary Costa Rican cinema, which has so far received scant scholarly attention within this burgeoning field.…”