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Earl E. Fitz
A literary and, to a lesser degree, socio-political, history of America, from its indigenous past to 2026, the book offers the reader a great deal of information about America, understood…
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Examines the reception of Brazil's most-canonized writer in the United States to shed light on questions of Blackness and hemispheric American experience.
Explains why the Brazilian master was so transformative of modern Brazilian literature and why she has become such a celebrity in the world literature arena. By offering close readings of…
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In the first volume of the MLA series World Literatures Reimagined, Earl E. Fitz examines the complex relation between Brazil and the United States: the colonial similarities and differences; the…
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The female characterizations in Machado’s novels are much more important to their author’s narrative art and to his social vision than we have previously thought. This is the first book-length…
This book argues that poststructuralism offers important and revealing insights into all aspects of Lispector’s writing,
In this survey of Central and South American literature, Earl Fitz provides the first book in English to analyse the Portuguese- and Spanish-language American canons in conjunction, uncovering valuable insights…
Argues that Machado de Assis, hailed as one of Latin American literature’s greatest writers, was also a major theoretician of the modern novel form. Had the Brazilian master written not…
This book discusses literary texts from English and French Canada, the US, Spanish America, the Caribbean, and Brazil. Bibliographic entries refer the reader to native American literature and culture. The…
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Argues that the role of the translator is an essential part of the reception process among English-language readers. This work explains how stylistic and linguistic choices made by the translator…
Bernardim Ribeiro
The first Iberian pastoral romance, a feminine narrative that is a revealing meditation on love and longing
Lygia Fagundes Telles
Originally published in Portugese as As Meninas by Josae Olympio, Rio de Janeiro, 1973; and in English by Avon Bard, New York, 1982 –T.p. verso.
Jose Maria de Eca de Queiros
A powerful story by Portugal’s greatest nineteenth-century writer expressing a deeply felt passion for social justice and human solidarity
This is the first volume of critical essays in English on the much-studied Lima Barreto. Each chapter explores not only his life and vast body of work but also the…
