The triumph of Brazilian modernism : the metanarrative of emancipation and counter-narratives / Saulo Gouveia.

"The Triumph of Brazilian Modernism" studies the first steps of the movement in Brazil and some of its texts. Its first part explains how modernists produced a meta-discourse that legitimized their own work, and how state cultural policies assured their canonization by disseminating overvi...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Gouveia, Saulo, 1966-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2013.
Series:North Carolina studies in the Romance languages and literatures ; no. 299.
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Table of Contents:
  • The building process : legitimation and self-legitimation
  • Literary historiography and the canonization of modernism in Brazil
  • Paulo Prado and the modernists
  • Mario de Andrade and the quest for the pure national
  • Atavistic modernity in Oswald de Andrade's Pau-Brasil.