Brazilian Literature as World Literature

by Eduardo F. Coutinho (Editor), Thomas Oliver Beebee (Editor)

Overview

Brazilian Literature as World Literature is not only an introduction to Brazilian literature but also a study of the connections between Brazil's literary production and that of the rest of the world, particularly European and North American literatures. It highlights the tension that has always existed in Brazilian literature between the imitation of European models and forms and a yearning for a tradition of its own, as well as the attempts by modernist writers to propose possible solutions, such as aesthetic cannibalism, to overcome this tension.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781501323263
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	02/22/2018
Series:	Literatures as World Literature
Pages:	376
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.88(d)

About the Author

Eduardo F. Coutinho is Professor of Comparative Literature at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His publications include The Synthesis Novel in Latin America (1991), Em busca da terceira margem (1993), Literatura Comparada (ed. with T. Carvalhal, 1994), Cânones e contextos (ed., 3 vols, 1997-98), Literatura Comparada na América Latina (2003), Beyond Binarisms (ed., 3 vols, 2009), Literatura Comparada: reflexões (2013), and Rompendo barreiras: estudos de literatura brasileira e hispano-americana (2014).

Table of Contents

Contributors
Translator Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
Eduardo F. Coutinho (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
2. Baroque Voices in the Primordial Voices of Brazilian Literature: Anchieta, Vieira and Gregorio
Dalma Nascimento
3. Light and Shadow: From Enlightenment to Neoclassicism in Brazil
Gustavo Bernardo Krause
4. Indigenism and the Search for Brazilian Identity: European Influences and National Roots
Roberto Acízelo de Souza (State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
5. The Multi-faceted Works of Machado de Assis
José Luis Jobim (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, RJ, Brazil)
6. Naturalism in Brazil and its European Connections
Lígia Vassallo (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
7. Brazilian Modernism and the Modern Art Week: The Influence of the European Twentieth Century Vanguards
Lucia Helena
8. The Dialogue Between Brazilian and World Poetry in the Twentieth Century
Jorge Fernandes da Silveira (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
9. Jorge Amado: The International Projection of the Brazilian Writer
Márca Rios da Silva
10. Regionalism vs. World Literature in João Guimarães Rosa
Eduardo F. Coutinho (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
11. Crossing Borders: Clarice Lispector and the Scene of Transnational Feminist Criticism
Rita Terezinha Schmidt (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
12. The Brazilian Theater in the World: From Modern Dramaturgy to the Contemporary Post-Dramatic Scene
Beatriz Resende (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
13. Post-Modern Brazilian Literature on the World Stage
Luiza Lobo (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
14. Comparative Literature and Supranational Community Relations: The Administration of Difference, the Ways of Articulation, and the Hegemonies of Cultural Flows
Benjamin Abdala Jr. (University of São Paulo, Brazil)

Index

Editorial Reviews

This volume is an eloquent confirmation of the fact that world literature is inevitably the literature of a particular world. The world of Brazilian literature and its intricate history are deftly documented by a distinguished team of Brazilian scholars, especially in the context of Brazil's complex transatlantic triangulation with the European and African continents and their diasporic entanglements in the bicontinental American New World.” —Djelal Kadir, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature, Pennsylvania State University, USA, and co-editor of the Routledge Companion to World Literature (2014)

“This is an authoritative survey of Brazilian literature as it developed in dialogue with Portuguese and French literatures, with resonances from other traditions of Europe, the Americas and Lusophone Africa, and then its projection outward through the translation of many of its major writers into other languages. An indispensable introduction to the study of Brazilian literature as world literature.” —Waïl S. Hassan, Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

“Part of the Literatures as World Literature series, this volume places the literature of Brazil in world context … Taken together the essays provide a panorama of the relationships between Brazilian literature and its themes and contents with its European sources, and consider its current place in world literature. Summing Up: Recommended.” —CHOICE

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