| Book Title | Comparative Perspectives On The Rise Of The Brazilian Novel |
| Book Author | Sandra Guardini Vasconcelos |
| Total Pages | 256 |
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| Language | English |
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Comparative Perspectives on the Rise of the Brazilian Novel
Edited by Ana Cláudia Suriani da Silva and Sandra Guardini Vasconcelos
COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON THE RISE OF THE BRAZILIAN NOVEL
Introduction: A Novel Approach to the
Rise of the Brazilian Novel
Sandra Guardini Vasconcelos and Ana Cláudia Suriani da Silva
This volume explores the rise of the Brazilian novel in the nineteenth century from a comparative viewpoint, by bringing the emergence of the new genre in the spatiotemporal context of the formation of the new nation into conversation with European and North American models and traditions.
It builds on research into comparative, postcolonial, world and national literature, book history, gender studies, archival and editorial work on women writers and periodicals conducted in the last 40 years, and on the long history of scholarship on the formation of Brazilian literature, to present a comparative framework based on a systematic and empirical approach to the study of the novel.
It applies that framework to the analysis of key nineteenth-century Brazilian novels, canonical and less well known, published during the period in which the forms and procedures of the novel were acclimatized as the genre was established and consolidated in Brazil.
The distinctive feature of this book is that it is conceived as an introduction to the nineteenth-century Brazilian novel from a comparative perspective, differing therefore from literary histories and monographs on specific authors or works. The selection of novels here, not intended to be comprehensive, includes a good number of non-canonical texts that have not yet been translated into English.
Translation practices have perpetuated a Brazilian literary identity based exclusively on elite canonical works and publishers. José de Alencar’s Iracema (1865, Chapter 5) and Visconde de Taunay’s Inocência [Innocencia] (1872, Chapter 7) were already available to anglophone readers by the end of the nineteenth century.1
Machado de Assis’s novels (Chapters 13 and 14) now each have at least one translation into English and can be easily acquired in the United Kingdom and the United States. The absence of women’s novels in English translation is remarkable but not surprising.2
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