Brazilian Literature as World Literature

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).

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.

• ContributorsTranslator Acknowledgments1. IntroductionEduardo F. Coutinho (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)2. Baroque Voices in the Primordial Voices of Brazilian Literature: Anchieta, Vieira and GregorioDalma Nascimento3. Light and Shadow: From Enlightenment to Neoclassicism in BrazilGustavo Bernardo Krause4. Indigenism and the Search for Brazilian Identity: European Influences and National RootsRoberto Acízelo de Souza (State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)5. The Multi-faceted Works of Machado de AssisJosé Luis Jobim (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, RJ, Brazil)6. Naturalism in Brazil and its European ConnectionsLígia Vassallo (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)7. Brazilian Modernism and the Modern Art Week: The Influence of the European Twentieth Century VanguardsLucia Helena8. 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 WriterMárca Rios da Silva10. Regionalism vs. World Literature in João Guimarães RosaEduardo F. Coutinho (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)11. Crossing Borders: Clarice Lispector and the Scene of Transnational Feminist CriticismRita 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 SceneBeatriz Resende (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)13. Post-Modern Brazilian Literature on the World StageLuiza 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 FlowsBenjamin Abdala Jr. (University of São Paulo, Brazil)Index