Table of Contents

Introduction Eduardo F. Coutinho (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) 1. Under the Sign of the Baroque: The Jesuit's Contribution and the First Brazilian Aesthetic Manifestations Angela Dias (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niteroi, RJ, Brazil) 2. The Enlightenment Atmosphere and the Arcadian Movement in Brazil Teresa Cristina Meireles de Oliveira (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) 3. European Romanticism and the Search for National Identity in Brazil: The Indian as a Symbol of the New Land Roberto Acizelo de Souza (State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) 4. Machado de Assis in the Cadre of World Literature Jose Luis Jobim de Salles Fonseca (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niteroi, RJ, Brazil) 5. The Influence of French Positivism and Naturalism on the Brazilian Novel Ligia Vassallo (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) 6. Brazilian Modernism and the European Twentieth Century Vanguards: The Modern Art Week Joao Cezar de Castro Rocha (State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) 7. Jorge Amado and the International Projection of Brazilian Literature Evelina Hoisel (Federal University of Bahia, Brazil) 8. Regionalism vs. World Literature in Joao Guimaraes Rosa Eduardo F. Coutinho (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) 9. Clarice Lispector and the International Feminist Criticism Rita Terezinha Schmidt (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) 10. The Dialogue Between Brazilian and World Poetry in the Twentieth Century Jorge Fernandes da Silveira (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) 11. Brazilian and World Theater: A Search for New Technical Devices Beatriz Resende (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) 12. Post-Modernist Expressions in Brazil and World Literature: The Production of Different Ethnic Groups Luiza Lobo (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) 13. The Influence of Brazilian Literature on African Literature in Portuguese Language Benjamin Abdala Jr. (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil) Index

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Investigates how Brazilian literature refracts world literature as well as how it influences other national literatures.

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), Canones e contextos (ed., 3 vols, 1997-98), Literatura Comparada na America Latina (2003), Beyond Binarisms (ed., 3 vols, 2009), Literatura Comparada: reflexoes (2013), and Rompendo barreiras: estudos de literatura brasileira e hispano-americana (2014).

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.
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