6. Worth Its Weight: Brazilian Modernist Fiction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: Silviano Santiago, a Voice In-Between 1
4. 1. Why and For What Purpose Does the European Travel? 9
5. 2. Latin American Discourse: The Space In-Between 25
6. 3. Eça, Author of Madame Bovary 39
7. 4. Universality in Spite of Dependency 53
8. 5. The Rhetoric of Verisimilitude 64
9. 6. Worth Its Weight: Brazilian Modernist Fiction 79
10. 7. The Permanence of the Discourse of Tradition in Modernism 93
11. 8. Repression and Censorship in the Field of the Arts during the 1970s 111
12. 9. Literature and Mass Culture 119
13. 10. The Postmodern Narrator 133
14. 11. Worldly Appeal: Local and Global Politics in the Shaping of Brazilian Culture 147
15. Notes 175
16. Index 185