“BRAZILIANS ARE NATURAL COMPARATISTS”

Abstract

Comparatism and Brazilian and Hispanic-American literatures. The role of the North American University in the propagation of Latin American literatures. Trends of the recent Brazilian and Hispanic-American literary production. Circulation of Brazilian literature in North America. Afro-descendant writers and American culture.

Keywords

• latin american comparatism;
• Machado de Assis;
• Clarice Lispector;
• dissemination of literature