Creative Transformations: Travels and Translations of Brazil in the Americas (SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture) - Softcover

Brune, Krista

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1438480628 ISBN 13: 9781438480626

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 2021

Synopsis

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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About the Author

Krista Brune is Assistant Professor of Portuguese and Spanish at Pennsylvania State University.

Edition details

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1438480628
• ISBN 13: 9781438480626
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 276