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).

Investigates the dialogue between Brazilian literature and other national literatures of Latin America and Africa

Contributors
Translator Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
Eduardo F. Coutinho (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
2. Baroque Voices in the Primordial Voices of Brazilian Literature: Anchieta, Vieira and Gregorio
Dalma Nascimento
3. Light and Shadow: From Enlightenment to Neoclassicism in Brazil
Gustavo Bernardo Krause
4. Indigenism and the Search for Brazilian Identity: European Influences and National Roots
Roberto Acízelo de Souza (State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
5. The Multi-faceted Works of Machado de Assis
José Luis Jobim (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, RJ, Brazil)
6. Naturalism in Brazil and its European Connections
Lígia Vassallo (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
7. Brazilian Modernism and the Modern Art Week: The Influence of the European Twentieth Century Vanguards
Lucia Helena
8. 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 Writer
Márca Rios da Silva
10. Regionalism vs. World Literature in João Guimarães Rosa
Eduardo F. Coutinho (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
11. Crossing Borders: Clarice Lispector and the Scene of Transnational Feminist Criticism
Rita 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 Scene
Beatriz Resende (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
13. Post-Modern Brazilian Literature on the World Stage
Luiza 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 Flows
Benjamin Abdala Jr. (University of São Paulo, Brazil)

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