In the first decades of the 20th century, Brazilian avant-garde literature came into its own. This program examines the awakening of Modernismo and subsequent movements in Brazilian letters, from Sao Paulo's Week of Modern Art in 1922 to the politically focused milieu of the 1970s. Outlining historical events that helped shape the country's multifaceted culture, the program explores the writings of Graciliano Ramos, Jose Lins do Rego, Augusto Meyer, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Jorge Amado, Erico Verissimo, Clarice Lispector, and Nelida Pinon, and others. It also looks at the Brazilian literature of today as it struggles to create new styles and forms that can do justice to its turbulent history.
In the first decades of the 20th century, Brazilian avant-garde literature came into its own. This program examines the awakening of Modernismo and subsequent movements in Brazilian letters, from Sao Paulo's Week of Modern Art in 1922 to the politically focused milieu of the 1970s. Outlining historical events that helped shape the country's multifaceted culture, the program explores the writings of Graciliano Ramos, Jose Lins do Rego, Augusto Meyer, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Jorge Amado, Erico Verissimo, Clarice Lispector, and Nelida Pinon, and others. It also looks at the Brazilian literature of today as it struggles to create new styles and forms that can do justice to its turbulent history.
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Content Note
Prelude: Brazilian Avant-Garde Literature (0:53) -- Modernism in Brazilian Literature: Mario de Andrade (3:01) -- Oswald de Andrade: "Anthropophagy" (3:16) -- Leaders of Modernism in Brazil and Portugal (2:03) -- Cultural and Political Changes in Brazil (3:00) -- Brazil's Literature of the 1930s (4:13) -- Concretism in Poetry: Poetry with Visual Characteristics (2:55) -- Brazilian Cordel Literature (1:09) -- Generations of Influential Brazilian Writers (3:35) -- Literary Innovator in Brazilian Literature (3:20) -- Brazilian Folk Novels: Jorge Amado (1:58) -- Brazilian Urban Literature (3:16) -- Psychological Approach to Literature (4:56) -- Brazilian Writer Nlida Pion (1:53) -- Brazilian Literature for Social Change (3:46) -- Novelist Rubem Fonseca (2:33) -- Innovations in Brazilian Music (2:15) -- Postlude: Unique Nature of Brazilian Literature (2:10).