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The Literatures of Spanish America and Brazil

From Their Origins through the Nineteenth Century

ISBN-13: 9780813950006
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PRESS
Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PRESS
By Earl E. Fitz
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Local release date: 26/11/2023
Format: Hardback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 244 pages Weight: 272g
Categories: Literary studies: general [DSB]

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Google Preview: In this survey of Central and South American literature, Earl E. Fitz provides the first book in English to analyze the Portuguese- and Spanish-language American canons in conjunction, uncovering valuable insights about both. Fitz works by comparisons and contrasts: the political and cultural situation at the turn of the fifteenth century in Spain and Portugal; the indigenous American cultures encountered by the Spanish and Portuguese and their legacy of influence; the documented discoveries of Colon and Caminha; the colonial poetry of Mexico's Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz and Brazil's Gregorio de Matos; culminating in a meticulous evaluation of the poetry of Nicaragua's Ruben Dario and the prose fiction of Brazil's Machado de Assis. Fitz, an award-winning scholar of comparative literature, contends that at the end of the nineteenth century, Latin America produced two great literary revolutions, both unique in the western hemisphere, and best understood together.; Earl E. Fitz is Professor of Portuguese, Spanish, and Comparative Literature at Vanderbilt University and the coauthor, with Elizabeth Lowe, of Translation and the Rise of Inter-American Literature.; Introduction 1. Chapter One: The Iberian Origins 2. Chapter Two: Indigenous America 3. Chapter Three: The Literature of Discovery and Conquest 4. Chapter Four: The Flowering of Latin American Letters 5. Chapter Five: The Enlightenment and Independence 6. Chapter Six: The Nineteenth Century 7. Chapter Seven: Ruben Dario, Machado de Assis, and End-of-Century Brilliance Conclusion Bibliography; "This book is 'old fashioned' yet visionary. Old fashioned because it is impervious to neoliberal university trends within 2000s hemispheric studies. Cutting edge because there is something truly astonishing about Fitz's four-decade-long commitment to the humanities and to literature as a comparative and multilingual field of study. It is a major work from an inter-Americanist pioneer who has served as the single greatest custodian of Literature of the Americas in print and in the classroom." - Antonio Barrenechea, University of Mary Washington, author of America Unbound: Encyclopedic Literature and Hemispheric Studies; Google Preview content

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