Entre os Estudos Latino-Americanos e a Literatura Comparada

Latin American literary studies have always been, in some ways – as has been already argued by many scholars – comparative. But from Antonio Candido’s remark that “a literatura brasileira é um galho secundário da literatura portuguesa” (“Brazilian literature is a secondary branch of Portuguese literature”) to recent work on contemporary Latin American literature, the meaning of “comparative” has undergone a radical transformation. This intervention seeks to track some of these changes and to theorize about the possibilities they open up for a redefinition of comparative literature for Latin American Studies, by analyzing a few works of Latin American literary studies.