The Afro-Brazillian Art of Coping
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The Afro-Brazillian Art of Coping

by floyd merrellBiographies & Memoirs

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How presumptuous the author of this book!"" Thus Coping begins. The author happens to be a white guy from the United States writing about Afro-Brazilian poor in the city of Salvador, Brazil, where he and his Mexican wife have made a second home. But the viewpoint guiding this book is neither Anglo-American nor Mexican nor Afro... -Brazilian, but something else: an ongoing coalescent tri-cultural process. If you will, let the following opinions qualify this process: ""Coping is a jargon-free literary expression that is as informative and unsettling as it is entertaining."" --Silvia Oliveira, Rhode Island College ""Combining partly fictional and partly factual accounts involving Afro-Bahians from various walks of life, Merrell's text manages to be both informative and puzzling."" --Jos dos Santos, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil ""The book is poignant and profound, yet it is written in a fluid prose that will be appealing to a general audience."" --Araceli Tinajero, City College of New York ""A profound sensibility underpins the entire book, as Merrell flows through his own 'invisibility' as observer to become a formidable fighter for the 'invisible' people he has come to know so well."" --Patrice Rankine, Purdue University ""On every page Merrell becomes someone else, and with each becoming he makes 'visible' the 'invisible' people of Baha. Coping is the 'invisible' Bahians' story. It is Baha. It is Floyd Merrell."" --Tracy Brandenburg, Cornell University ""Merrell's book helps us understand what it feels like to be Afro-Brazilian and poor. This is a significant accomplishment because it gives a public voice to folks who otherwise are seldom heard."" --Paul Dixon, Purdue University read more

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BIOGRAPHY
Retired college prof, Purdue University (1973-2011). He authored too many professional books (32) in mind-numbing 'academese.' Since retiring, he would like to think he's writing fiction and nonfiction about identity crises, border issues, ethnic interrelations, and mental glitches of multiple sorts, and now finds hi... mself floundering in whirlpooling word cascades that incessantly sweep him along. Yet, he managed to finish THE AFRO-BRAZILIAN ART OF COPING that emerged from his experiences in Brazil two to three months a year from 1991 to 2011; a coming of age trilogy, FINDING HIMSELF: From New Mexico to the Sierra Madre and Back, LOOKING GLASS KILLER, and THE DILEMMA: Who is Matt?; a bizarre adventure story, ENIGMAS: Gold Fever, Space-Time Warps, Sierra Madre Magic; and the first volume of a sci-fi trilogy that will be out within three months, NOW IS TOO SOON: Untangling Future Memories. read more

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Title The Afro-Brazillian Art of Coping
Author floyd merrell
ASIN 978-1-62510-855
Publisher Tate
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