(Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture) Rolf J

22
Sigmund Freud, “Das Unbewußte” (1913), in Gesammelte Werke, vol. 10
(Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer, 1991), 263–303, here 294.
23
Walter Benjamin, “Über einige Motive bei Baudelaire,” in GS I.2:605–53; SW
4:313–55.
PARIS ON THE AMAZON?
245
24
Mário de Andrade, A Escrava que não é Isaura: Discurso sobre algumas tendências
da poesia modernista (1924), repr., in Obra imatura (Belo Horizonte and São
Paulo: Itatiaia and Martins, 1980), 195–300, here 252. Further references to this
work are cited in the text using the abbreviation ENI and the page number. This
text, along with the “Prefácio interessantíssimo” of Paulicéia desvairada (PD,
59–77), is Mário de Andrade’s most important theoretical statement on modern
urban poetry.
25
Friedrich Nietzsche, Die Geburt der Tragödie, in Werke, vol. 1, ed. Karl
Schlechta (Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, and Vienna: Ullstein, 1972), 48–49.
26 The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, trans. Jefferson Butler Fletcher (New
York: Macmillan, 1931), 12.
27
Racionais MC’s, Sobrevivendo no Inferno, CD (Cosa Nostra Fonográfica and
Sonopress, Manaus, 2002). The print versions of the songs of this CD and the
other two CDs cited below are on the Web site http://racionais-mcs.lyrics-songs.
com/.
28
Racionais MC’s, Racionais MC’s, CD (Cosa Nostra Fonográfica and Sonopress,
Manaus, undated).
29
Racionais MC’s, Nada como um dia após o outro dia: Chora agora, ri depois
(Nothing like one day after another day: Cry now, laugh later), 2 CDs (Cosa Nostra
Fonográfica and Sonopress, Manaus, 2002)
30
Racionais MC’s, Sobrevivendo no Inferno, CD.
31
Cf. Mike Davis, “Planet of Slums,” New Left Review 26 (Mar.–Apr., 2004),
5–34.
32
Márcio Souza, As Folias do Látex (1976; repr., Manaus: Valer, 2007). Further
references to this work are cited in the text using the abbreviation FL and the
page number.
33
According to a study carried out by the Hadley Centre, analyzed in the 2007
report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (www.ipcc.ch), there is
a possibility that the Amazonian ecosystem will completely disappear by 2080.
34
I wish to thank John Dawsey (Universidade de São Paulo) for his assistance in
revising an earlier draft of this essay.