Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-263) and index.
Contents:
-- Introduction -- First Undercurrents -- Ronald de Carvalho (and Carlos Pellicer): Modern Poets of America -- Alfonso Reyes: Mexico and Brazil in a Nutshell -- When Mexican Poets Come to Rio de Janeiro -- Érico Veríssimo's Journey into Mexico -- João Guimarães Rosa Between Life and Death in His Own Páramo -- Why and for What Purpose do Latin American Fiction Writers Travel? Silviano Santiago's Viagem ao Mexico and The Roots and Labyrinths of Latin America -- Nelson Pereira dos Santos and the Mexican Golden Age of Cinema -- Paul Leduc Reads Rubem Fonseca: The Globalization of Violence or The Violence of Globalization -- The Delicate Crime of Beto Brant and Felipe Ehrenberg -- Undercurrents, Still Flowing -- Conclusion.
Summary:
"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 within Latin 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"-- Provided by publisher.
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