Becoming Brazil:
New Fiction, Poetry, and Memoir

Guest-Edited by Eric M. B. Becker and Noah Perales-Estoesta.
Series Editor Frank Stewart.

When Dom Pedro I declared Brazilian independence in September 1822, he could not have known that the newly liberated country would one day become a nation of 200 million citizens. Becoming Brazil: New Fiction, Poetry, and Memoir presents new translations of work by and about the vibrant people of this fascinatingly diverse and rapidly changing country.

Although Brazil is by far the largest and most populous nation in South America—with approximately the same landmass as the US—Brazilian literature, art, and culture are little known in countries where Portuguese is not spoken. But within Brazil, contemporary artists and avant-garde writers are helping to form a national identity that takes into account the nation’s disparate regions, customs, indigenous people, immigrants, dialects, and social and racial inequalities. 

Becoming Brazil includes works by canonical twentieth-century Brazilian writers, innovative contemporary authors, and new voices, many of them in translation for the first time. The volume also includes stunning images by two of Brazil’s best photographers.

240 pp., winter 2018 (30:2), $25
ISBN 978-0-8248-8169-6
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