Literary and Cultural Relations beteen Brazil and Mexico Deep Undercurrents [Hardcover]

Joining a timely conversation within the field of intra-American literature, this study takes a fresh look at Latin America by locating fragments and making evident the mostly untold story of horizontal (south-south) contacts across a multilingual, multicultural continent.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. ?rico Ver?ssimo's Journey into Mexico 6. Jo?o Guimar?es Rosa Between Life and Death in His Own P?ramo 7. Why and for What Purpose do Latin American Fiction Writers Travel? Silviano Santiago's Viagem ao M?xico 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

Moreiras book makes a solid contribution to the emerging field of Luso-Hispanic studies & . Moreiras 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)

Paulo Moreira is an Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University, USA. This is an example of inter-American literary scholarship at its most perceptive. Moreira deftly connects seminal works from both Mexico and Brazil and shows the reader how, on the question of their modern New World heritage, these profoundly influential New World texts compare and contrast with each other. In doing so, he lÃØ