Rain Forest or Metropolis: Brazilian Modernists’ Debate Between the Local and the Global in Literature
Rain Forest or Metropolis: Brazilian Modernists’ Debate Between the Local and the Global in Literature

Summary/Abstract: In this article the relationship between world literature and national literature in its Brazilian context will be analysed. In the first part the Brazilian intellectual debate during the first three decades of the 20th century will be shortly introduced, especially as it was centered around the questions of nationalism and globalism. In the second part I will bring some examples related to the mentioned topics from some texts written by two top Brazilian modernist authors Oswald and Mario de Andrade. During the development of my argument I will give some examples from other periods as well. I shall also focus on the concept of the ’wild man’ which was formed in Europe and imported to Brazil. The purpose of the article is to criticise the existing tradition of defining a global literary movement and propose an alternative approach on the example of Brazilian modernism.

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