Brazil, Lyric, and the Americas [electronic resource] /
Perrone, Charles A.
Gainesville : University Press of Florida,
c2010.
Charles Perrone explores how recent Brazilian lyric engages with its counterparts throughout the Western Hemisphere in an increasingly globalized world. This pioneering, tour-de-force study focuses on the years from 1985 to the present and examines poetic output - from song and visual poetry to discursive verse - across a range of media.
Charles Perrone explores how recent Brazilian lyric engages with its counterparts throughout the Western Hemisphere in an increasingly globalized world. This pioneering, tour-de-force study focuses on the years from 1985 to the present and examines poetic output - from song and visual poetry to discursive verse - across a range of media.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction. interfaces: insularity, invention, Brazilian lyric in/and the Americas -- Insular outreach, moveable outlook: transamerican currents in Brazilian lyric -- Allusive, elusive: Brazilian reflections of/on USAmerican literature -- Inter arts inter alia: film, popular music, and media lore in the poetic imagination -- Three centuries, three Americas: epical fellowships and hemispheric imperatives -- Banda hispânica: Spanish American-Brazilian links in lyric and landings -- Scions of tropicália: of signs, soundings, song, and science -- (In-)conclusion: intersection interaction interlocution.
Description based on print version record.
Brazilian literature
Literature and globalization
Brazilian poetry