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Lazzara and Vicky Unruh New Argentine Film: Other Worlds (updated paperback edition of Other Worlds ) by Gonzalo Aguilar B razil under C onstruction Fiction and Public Works Sophia Beal BRAZIL UNDER CONSTRUCTION Copyright © Sophia Beal, 2013. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2013 All rights reserved. Portions of chapter 2 appeared in Sophia Beal’s article “The Substance of Light: Literature and Public Space in Belle É poque Rio de Janeiro,” which was originally published in the Luso-Brazilian Review 49.2: 5–27 (2012). © 2012 by the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. Reproduced courtesy of the University of Wisconsin Press. An earlier version of chapter 4 appeared in an article in Hispania , the Journal of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP). It was published in 2010 in issue 93.1: 1–10. Special thanks to AATSP for permission to reprint the article. First published in 2013 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN ® in the United States—a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave ® and Macmillan ® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN: 978–1–137–32247–0 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available from the Library of Congress. A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library. Design by Newgen Knowledge Works (P) Ltd., Chennai, India. First edition: September 2013 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 ISBN 978-1-349-45839-4 ISBN 978-1-137-32248-7 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781137322487 For my parents, Thaddeus Beal and Erica Funkhouser, with love and gratitude This page intentionally left blank Contents List of Figures i x Acknowledgments xi 1 An Introduction to the Fiction of Public Works 1 2 Conquering the Dark: Literature, Lighting, and Public Space in Rio de Janeiro in the Early 1900s 23 3 The Spectacle of Light: A Public Works Company in Southeastern Brazil (1906–1971) 55 4 Brasí lia: The Real and Promised City in 1960s Brazilian Literature 79 5 Fiction and Massive Public Works during the Brazilian Military Regime (1964–1985) 99 6 S ã o Paulo’s Failed Public Works in Ferré z’s Cap ã o Pecado and Luiz Ruffato’s Eles eram muitos cavalos 121 Epilogue 1 37 Notes 149 Works Cited 169 Index 185 This page intentionally left blank Figures 2.1 “A illuminaç ã o do Palacio Monrö e” (The Illumination of the Monroe Palace) 38 2.2 “Exposiç ã o Nacional—Avenida dos Estados—vista do alto do portã o monumental” (National Exposition— Avenue of the States—View from above the Monumental Doorway) 41 2.3 “Exposiç ã o Nacional—a illuminaç ã o do Pavilhã o do Districto Federal” (National Exposition—The Illumination of the Federal District Pavilion) 42 2.4 “Exposiç ã o Nacional: O Pavilhã o da Bahia—aspecto da illuminaç ã o” (National Exposition: The Bahia Pavilion—Aspect of the Illumination) 43 2.5 “Aspecto da illuminaç ã o da porta monumental” (Aspect of the Illumination of the Monumental Doorway) 44 2.6 “O Pavilhã o do Estado de Minas Geraes” (The Pavilion of the State of Minas Gerais) 45 2.7 “A electricidade” (Electricity) 47