Brazilian Literature as World Literature - Paperback

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

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.

Author Biography

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).