Wasafiri 82: The Brazilian Contemporary

Issue 82: Summer 2015

The Brazilian Contemporary

Fiction by Susana Fuentes, Leila Guenther, Joâo Gilberto Noll, Ana Paula Maia, Elvira Vigna and Paloma Vidal

Poems by Josely Vianna Baptista, Paulo Henriques Britto, Marilia Garcia, Ferreira Gullar, Nuno Ramos and Marcos Siscar

Interviews with Sérgio de Carvalho and Marcelo Marisola

Articles on dilemmas of the idea of nation and literary tradition in Brazilian literary criticism until 1990, the tombeau of the Avant-gardes: 'the pluralisation of possible poetics' as a contemporary critical paradigm, translating Brazil and Pixação and Tourist Appraisal

Art Essay on Arthur Bispo do Rosário: The Ruse of Brazilian Art

Reviews of Hilda Hilst's The Obscene Madame D, Lydia Fagundes Telles 's The Girl in the Photograph, Rachel de Queiroz's O Quinze, Zulmira Ribeiro Tavares's Family Heirlooms, Veronica Stigger's Opisane switata, Rubens Figueiredo's Passageiro do fim do dia, Paulo Scott's Nowhere People, Andréa del Fuego's As Miniaturas, Adriana Lisboa's Hanoi and Ricardo Lísias's Divórcio



 

Fabio Akcelrud Durão
Editorial

Roberto Schwarz
A Book's Seven Lives

Leandro Pasini
Displacements of Theory: Some dilemmas of the idea of nation and literary tradition in Brazilian literary criticism until 1990

Marcos Siscar
The Tombeau of the Avant-gardes: 'the pluralisation of possible poetics' as a contemporary critical paradigm

Caetano Waldrigues Galindo
Translating Brazil

Fabio Akcelrud Durão
Arthur Bispo do Rosário: The Ruse of Brazilian Art

Suman Gupta
Pixação and Tourist Appraisal

Fabio Akcelrud Durão
An Interview with Sérgio de Carvalho

Fabio Akcelrud Durão
An Interview with Marcelo Mirisola

João Gilberto Noll
Fiction: My Friend

Elvira Vigna
Fiction: In Writing - an Excerpt

Paloma Vidal
Fiction: Tavistock Square

Leila Guenther
Fiction: Pomegranate

Susana Fuentes
Fiction: Tiger and the Silk Cotton Tree

Ana Paula Maia
Fiction: Javalis no Quintal - Wild Boars in the Backyard

Ferreira Gullar
Poem

Nunos Ramos
Poem

Paulo Henriques Britto
Sonnets

Josely Vianna Baptista
Poems

Marcos Siscar
Poem

Marília Garcia
Poems

Reviews

Ana Fletcher
Review Essay: Beyond Clarice: Three Radical Brazilian Women Writers
Hilda Hilst Letters from a Seducer
Hilda Hilst The Obscene Madame D
Lydia Fagundes Telles The Girl in the Photograph
Rachel de Queiroz O Quinze

Lara Pawson
Zulmira Ribeiro Tavares Family Heirlooms

Jethro Soutar
Leonardo Villa-Forte O Explicador
Rafael Sperling Un Homem Burro Morreu

Zoe Perry
Veronica Stigger Opisane switata

Claire Williams
Rubens Figueiredo Passageiro do fim do dia
Paulo Scott Nowhere People

Raquel Ribeiro
Andréa del Fuego As Miniaturas
Adriana Lisboa Hanoi

Francisco Vilhena
Ricardo Lísias Divórcio

Felicity Gee
Rafael Ocasio Afro-Cuban Custumbrismo: From Plantations to the Slums
Thomas F Anderson Carnival and National Identity in the Poetry of Afrocubanismo

Kanika Batra
Dirk Göttsche Remembering Africa: The Rediscovery of Colonialism in Contemporary African Literature
Stef Craps Postcolonial Witnessing: Trauma Out of Bounds

Vijay Mishra
Florian Stadtler Fiction, Film and Indian Popular Cinema: Salman Rushdie's Novels and the Cinematic Imagination
Rajinder Dudrah Bollywood Travels: Culture, Diaspora and Border Crossings in Popular Hindi Cinema
Anjali Gera Roy and Chua Beng Huat, ed Travels of Bollywood Cinema: From Bombay to LA
Yael Maurer The Science Fiction Dimensions of Salman Rushdie