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Brazilian literature. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (735 words) |
 | Brazilian literature began with the letter of Pero Vaz de Caminha announcing the discovery to the king of Portugal. |
| The two major Brazilian romantic poets were Antônio Gonçalves Dias, who glorified the indigenous people and the native soil, and Antônio de Castro Alves, a leader in the fight for the abolition of slavery. |
| The works of the man generally considered the greatest of Brazilian writers, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, were in the same realist vein. |
| Brazilian literature term paper (547 words) |
| Its processes reflect scenes of the drama of Brazilian society of 1961 to 1964 and reveal passions of that historical period, especially the intense belief in the role of art in what some thought to be a (pre-) revolutionary stage. |
| Brazilians were trying to institute locally a validation of a concept of literature stressing content and political rhetoric In doing so, poets were answering to a declared necessity for the involvement of middle-class intellectuals and students with the working class and peasants. |
| In the early sixties, concerned Brazilian artists faced a fundamental problem with respect to commitment: compulsions to involve others and to denounce had to be weighed against freedom of expression; in effect, individual perceptions had to be balanced with "correct" positions. |
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