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Re-Discovering Brazilian Literary History: the Case for Translation

Journal of Lusophone Studies, 2018
Brazilian literary histories are structured either to trace the emergence of an autonomous literature (a “national literature”), or to postulate a “master” cultural gesture (such as “anthropopaghy.”) This article proposes translation as an alternative to
Martin Gaspar
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The permanence of Regionalism in Brazilian contemporary literature

Poligramas, 2021
This article analyses the permanence of traces of Regionalism in Brazilian contemporary fiction. Regarded as outdated by literary criticism and disavowed by writers, Regionalism has entered the history of Brazilian literature as synonymous with art of ...
André Tessaro Pelinser, Márcio Miranda Alves   +1 more
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Death and suicide in ethnographic field: The case of Buell H. Quain [PDF]

Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, 2023
The immediate reason for writing this article is the novel Nine Nights by the Brazilian writer Bernardo Carvalho, and the subject is the thematization of anthropological thanatography and suicidology on the example of writing about the death of ...
Gorunović Gordana
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Do florilégio à antologia da Poesia Brasileira da invenção: uma reflexão sobre o paradigma da história da Literatura Brasileira

Aletria: Revista de Estudos de Literatura, 1995
This paper aims to discuss the Brazilian Literary History model, a polemic issue, which concerned the romantic and realistic Brazilian criticism and still arouses the interest of contemporary criticism.
Luiz Roberto Velloso Cairo
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A Biographical Essay on Ruth Guimarães: A Black Writer in Brazil in the 1940s [PDF]

Stichproben, 2020
This essay presents insights into the early career of Ruth Guimarães (1920-2014), the Afro-Brazilian writer from the São Paulo area renowned for her depiction of the Brazilian countryside.
Silvio Tamaso D'Onofrio, Arno Sonderegger   +1 more
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Pedro I, « héros » de l’indépendance brésilienne ? De l’actualité littéraire d’un débat historiographique ancien

IdeAs, 2022
History and fiction have a close and troubled relationship that is regularly highlighted by current literary events, such as Javier Moro's 2011 novel, El imperio eres tú, whose main character is Pedro I, "the founder of the Brazilian empire". In so doing,
Sébastien Rozeaux
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Brazilian romantics and the national-descriptive tendency in the literature of the 19th century

Gragoatá, 2017
Brazilian Romantic literature was developed in a period of intense national affirmation and under the influx of the ideas of French writer Ferdinand Denis.
Eduardo Luis Araújo de Oliveira Batista
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Litteraturvetenskapen och det kosmopolitiska begäret

Tidskrift för Litteraturvetenskap, 2013
Literary Studies and Cosmopolitan Desire With a focus on Swedish and English translations of the Brazilian war narrative Os sertões (1902) by Euclides da Cunha, this essay begins by exploring the conditions of possibility for the transnational ...
Stefan Helgesson
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The weight of the past: trauma and testimony in Que bom te ver viva [PDF]

, 2015
This article examines representations of trauma in Lúcia Murat’s Que bom te ver viva (How Nice to See You Alive, 1989), a semi-documentary focusing on the experiences of former political militants who, like the director herself, were arrested and ...
Heise, Tatiana
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Becoming a writer in Lésbia (1890), by Maria Benedita Câmara Bormann (Délia)

Raído, 2020
In the novel Lésbia (1890), by Maria Benedita Câmara Bormann (Délia), the protagonist Arabela becomes a famous writer in Brazilian nineteenth century. In order to understand how this female character ascends socially in a period of deprivation, we did a ...
Pamela Raiol Rodrigues, Juliana Maia de Queiroz   +1 more
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