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The Historical Dictionary of Latin American Literature and Theater
provides users with an accessible single-volume reference tool
covering Portuguese-speaking Brazil and the 16 Spanish-speaking
countries of continental Latin America (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile,
Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras,
Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela).
Entries for authors, ranging from the early colonial period to the
present, give succinct biographical data and an account of the
author's literary production, with particular attention to their
most prominent works and where they belong in literary history. The
introduction provides a review of Latin American literature and
theater as a whole while separate dictionary entries for each
country offer insight into the history of national literatures.
Entries for literary terms, movements, and genres serve to
complement these commentaries, and an extensive bibliography points
the way for further reading. The comprehensive view and detailed
information obtained from all these elements will make this book of
use to the general-interest reader, Latin American studies
students, and the academic specialist.
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Novas - Selected Writings (Paperback, New edition)
Haroldo De Campos; Edited by Antonio Sergio Bessa, Odile Cisneros; Introduction by Antonio Sergio Bessa, Odile Cisneros; Foreword by …
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R945
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The first full-scale English translation of one of Brazil's-and the
world's-most influential avant-garde literary voices
A generous introduction to one of the key literary figures to
emerge from Brazil in the second half of the twentieth century,
this book offers English-speaking readers an ample selection of
this prodigious writer's celebrated poetry and widely influential
critical work. As a poet and as a cofounder of the renowned group
Noigandres, Haroldo de Campos has made a unique and substantial
contribution to the theory and practice of experimental writing,
particularly the form known as concrete poetry, and to the Latin
American avant-garde as a whole. These contributions, acclaimed
worldwide by figures such as Umberto Eco, Jacques Derrida, Octavio
Paz, and Guillermo Cabrera Infante, can be observed unfolding here,
first in poetry selections ranging from de Campos' early work
before concretism through his most recent production; then in
theoretical texts that trace his evolution as a critic from an
early interest in baroque and modernist writers to his development
of an innovative model for reading, translating, and writing. This
second, critical section of the book includes de Campos' encounters
with the tasks of translating and reading some of the most
important texts of Eastern and Western culture-from Ecclesiastes to
the No play Hagoromo, from Dante to Paz-thus charting a genealogy
of modern literature.
Together, these poems and critical writings afford English-speaking
readers their first sustained exposure to a unique personality
within the international avant-garde, a writer described by
Brazilian poet Joao Cabral de Melo Neto as "that wonderful thing: /
a poet and a translator who came to literature armed with an
enviable / knowledge of the literary phenomenon."
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