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Creative Transformations: Travels and Translations of Brazil in the Americas

Creative Transformations: Travels and Translations of Brazil in the Americas

Hardcover

Series: Suny Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 143848061X
ISBN13: 9781438480619
Publisher: St Univ Of New York Pr
Published: Nov 1 2020
Pages: 276
Weight: 1.05
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

Explores the role of travel and translation in Brazilian literature and culture from the 1870s to the present.

In Creative Transformations, Krista Brune brings together Brazilian fiction, film, journalism, essays, and correspondence from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries. Drawing attention to the travels of Brazilian artists and intellectuals to the United States and other parts of the Americas, Brune argues that experiences of displacement have had a significant influence on their work. Across Brazilian literary and cultural history, translation becomes a way of navigating and representing the resulting encounters between languages, interactions with Spanish Americans, and negotiations of complex identities. While Creative Transformations engages extensively with theories of translation from different national and disciplinary contexts, it also constructs a vision of translation uniquely attuned to the place of Brazil in the Americas. Brune reveals the hemispheric underpinnings of works by renowned Brazilian writers such as Machado de Assis, Sousândrade, Mário de Andrade, Silviano Santiago, and Adriana Lisboa. In the process, she rethinks the dynamics between cosmopolitan and national desires and between center and periphery in global literary markets.

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