{"id":256326,"date":"2007-09-25T14:32:47","date_gmt":"2007-09-25T14:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2007\/09\/25\/brazilians-in-the-new-york-times\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:36:22","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:36:22","slug":"brazilians-in-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2007\/09\/25\/brazilians-in-the-new-york-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazilians in the New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/09\/24\/books\/24amaz.html?_r=1&#38;oref=slogin\">profiles<\/a> the Brazilian authors M\u00e1rcio Souza and Milton Hatoum and provides an oh-so-brief overview of the Brazilian scene:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Just ask M\u00e1rcio Souza or Milton Hatoum, two leading Brazilian novelists of Amazon themes. Both were born and grew up in this bustling, ethnically diverse port city in the heart of the planet\u2019s largest rain forest, but both had to leave here and struggle to get recognition.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t fit any of the established models or niches,\u201d Mr. Souza, 61, said in an interview at his studio here. \u201cWe\u2019re not magical realists\u201d like Gabriel Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez and other celebrated Latin American writers, he said, \u201cand we haven\u2019t lived through the interesting times that the East Europeans have.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cMaybe we need more deforestation here to get some attention,\u201d Mr. Souza, the author of picaresque, satirical novels like \u201cThe Emperor of the Amazon\u201d and \u201cMad Maria,\u201d added mordantly. \u201cThat\u2019s how the book world seems to work.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times profiles the Brazilian authors M\u00e1rcio Souza and Milton Hatoum and provides an oh-so-brief overview of the Brazilian scene: Just ask M\u00e1rcio Souza or Milton Hatoum, two leading Brazilian novelists of Amazon themes. Both were born and grew up in this bustling, ethnically diverse port city in the heart of the planet\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[6616,2136,6596,6606],"class_list":["post-256326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-brazil","tag-ejvl","tag-marcio-souza","tag-milton-hatoum"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":362086,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256326\/revisions\/362086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}