Literary and Cultural Relations Between Brazil and Mexico - Deep Undercurrents

"Literary and Cultural Relations Between Brazil and Mexico: Deep Undercurrents proposes an innovative assessment of cultural relations in Latin America in a context of enormous diversity. Its main focus is on a series of imaginative encounters involving extraordinary writers, artists, filmmakers, and thinkers from Brazil and Mexico. These encounters originated noteworthy essays, poems, novels, films, sculptures, and even graphic novels that represent the amazing potential of intercultural contacts withinLatin America. They are carefully contextualized and thoroughly examined in a set of dense and yet clear analyses. Ultimately, these encounters serve as the basis for setting up an important discussion about the reconfiguration of the idea of Latin America and the productive cultural relationship between Latin American identities"--

List of contents

Introduction 1. First Undercurrents 2. Ronald de Carvalho (and Carlos Pellicer): Modern Poets of America 3. Alfonso Reyes: Mexico and Brazil in a Nutshell 4. When Mexican Poets Come to Rio de Janeiro 5. Érico Veríssimo's Journey into Mexico 6. João Guimarães Rosa Between Life and Death in His Own Páramo 7. Why and for What Purpose do Latin American Fiction Writers Travel? Silviano Santiago's Viagem ao México and The Roots and Labyrinths of Latin America 8. Nelson Pereira dos Santos and the Mexican Golden Age of Cinema 9. Paul Leduc Reads Rubem Fonseca: The Globalization of Violence or The Violence of Globalization 10. The Delicate Crime of Beto Brant and Felipe Ehrenberg 11. Undercurrents, Still Flowing Conclusion

Report

"Moreira's book makes a solid contribution to the emerging field of Luso-Hispanic studies ... . Moreira's Literary and Cultural Relations between Brazil and Mexico is a solid piece of scholarship, which will interest scholars of Brazilian, Mexican, and Latin American literature, and particularly those interested, like Moreira, in challenging the notion that 'mutual ignorance' continues to characterize the reciprocal gazes of the Portuguese- and Spanish-speaking Americas." (Robert Patrick Newcomb, The Luso-Brazilian Review, Vol. 53 (1), June, 2016)

Product details

• Authors: P da Luz Moreira, P. da Luz Moreira, Paulo Moreira
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.12.2013
• EAN: 9781137379863
• ISBN: 978-1-137-37986-3
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Literatures of the Americas; Literatures of the Americas
• Subjects: Fiction; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; B, Literature, Fiction & related items, Cultural Studies, Fiction, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, World Literature, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Latin American Culture, Ethnology—Latin America, Fiction Literature, Palgrave Literature Collection, Postcolonial/World Literature, America—Literatures, North American Literature, Literature: history and criticism, Fiction and Related items, America;Amerikanische Literatur;fiction