Sara Brandellero is Assistant Professor in Brazilian Studies at Leiden University. Her publications include the book On a Knife-Edge: The Poetry of João Cabral de Melo Neto (Oxford University Press, 2011) and The Brazilian Road Movie: Journeys of (Self)Discovery (University of Wales Press, 2013). Lucia Villares was Post-doctoral Senior Student in Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies at Cambridge University (2009–12). Her publications include Examining Whiteness: Reading Clarice Lispector through Bessie Head and Toni Morrison (Oxford, Legenda) 2011.

• ContentsSeries Editors’ ForewordAcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Sara Brandellero and Lucia VillaresChapter 1: Reflections on Graciliano Ramos – Luiz Ruffato Chapter 2: Graciliano Ramos and Politics in Alagoas – Randal JohnsonChapter 3: Debris of Worthless Shipwrecks: Caetés, the Anachronisms and Simulacra of the Modern Nation – Roberto VecchiChapter 4: The Subjectivity of the Werewolf (São Bernardo) – Ana Paula Pacheco Chapter 5: The Dead Woman in the Bedroom: São Bernardo –Lúcia Helena ViannaChapter 6: A Thick Heart: Migration of Souls and Senses – Lucia HelenaChapter 7: The Writing of the Spectral Land in Vidas secas – Sara BrandelleroChapter 8: The Anguish of Revolution – Wander Melo MirandaChapter 9: Unearthing Value: Money and Topographies of the Self in Graciliano Ramos – Lucia VillaresChapter 10: Graciliano Ramos is Not the Author of Madame Bovary – Mario CámaraChapter 11: The Freedom of Memory: Autobiography and Fiction in Graciliano Ramos and Silviano Santiago – Aquiles Alencar BraynerChapter 12: On Influences: Graciliano Ramos and Milton Hatoum – Tânia Pellegrini

Sara Brandellero is Assistant Professor in Brazilian Studies at Leiden University. Her publications include the book On a Knife-Edge: The Poetry of João Cabral de Melo Neto (Oxford University Press, 2011) and The Brazilian Road Movie: Journeys of (Self)Discovery (University of Wales Press, 2013). Lucia Villares was Post-doctoral Senior Student in Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies at Cambridge University (2009–12). Her publications include Examining Whiteness: Reading Clarice Lispector through Bessie Head and Toni Morrison (Oxford, Legenda) 2011.

• ContentsSeries Editors’ ForewordAcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Sara Brandellero and Lucia VillaresChapter 1: Reflections on Graciliano Ramos – Luiz Ruffato Chapter 2: Graciliano Ramos and Politics in Alagoas – Randal JohnsonChapter 3: Debris of Worthless Shipwrecks: Caetés, the Anachronisms and Simulacra of the Modern Nation – Roberto VecchiChapter 4: The Subjectivity of the Werewolf (São Bernardo) – Ana Paula Pacheco Chapter 5: The Dead Woman in the Bedroom: São Bernardo –Lúcia Helena ViannaChapter 6: A Thick Heart: Migration of Souls and Senses – Lucia HelenaChapter 7: The Writing of the Spectral Land in Vidas secas – Sara BrandelleroChapter 8: The Anguish of Revolution – Wander Melo MirandaChapter 9: Unearthing Value: Money and Topographies of the Self in Graciliano Ramos – Lucia VillaresChapter 10: Graciliano Ramos is Not the Author of Madame Bovary – Mario CámaraChapter 11: The Freedom of Memory: Autobiography and Fiction in Graciliano Ramos and Silviano Santiago – Aquiles Alencar BraynerChapter 12: On Influences: Graciliano Ramos and Milton Hatoum – Tânia Pellegrini