Joining a timely conversation within the field of intra-American literature, this study takes a fresh look at Latin America by locating fragments and making evident the mostly untold story of horizontal (south-south) contacts across a multilingual, multicultural continent.

Moreira's book makes a solid contribution to the emerging field of Luso-Hispanic studies . Moreira's Literary and Cultural Relations between Brazil and Mexico is a solid piece of scholarship, which will interest scholars of Brazilian, Mexican, and Latin American literature, and particularly those interested, like Moreira, in challenging the notion that 'mutual ignorance' continues to characterize the reciprocal gazes of the Portuguese- and Spanish-speaking Americas. (Robert Patrick Newcomb, The Luso-Brazilian Review, Vol. 53 (1), June, 2016)

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Paulo Moreira is an Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University, USA.

Inhalt
Introduction 1. First Undercurrents 2. Ronald de Carvalho (and Carlos Pellicer): Modern Poets of America 3. Alfonso Reyes: Mexico and Brazil in a Nutshell 4. When Mexican Poets Come to Rio de Janeiro 5. Érico Veríssimo's Journey into Mexico 6. João Guimarães Rosa Between Life and Death in His Own Páramo 7. Why and for What Purpose do Latin American Fiction Writers Travel? Silviano Santiago's Viagem ao México and The Roots and Labyrinths of Latin America 8. Nelson Pereira dos Santos and the Mexican Golden Age of Cinema 9. Paul Leduc Reads Rubem Fonseca: The Globalization of Violence or The Violence of Globalization 10. The Delicate Crime of Beto Brant and Felipe Ehrenberg 11. Undercurrents, Still Flowing Conclusion