Affect and Realism in Contemporary Brazilian Fiction

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Affect and Realism in Contemporary Brazilian Fiction is written by Karl Erik Schollhammer and published by Anthem Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1785275577 (ISBN 10) and 9781785275579 (ISBN 13).

This book is about contemporary Brazilian fiction from the past two decades and concerned with the possibilities of literary intervention in the reality of the historical moment. Thus, an understanding of the actual role of literature is strategic in the definition of the contemporary, and the book shows an optimism among current writers and artists with respect to the aesthetic, ethical, and political role of literature and art in the twentieth century. In contemporary Brazilian prose, two simultaneous ambitions are often reconciled. The commitment to individual or social reality is a challenge that is assumed without thereby necessarily accepting and following the molds of the traditional search for national or cultural identities. This foundation is one of the constants of contemporary prose, without thereby eliminating the continuous existence of a formal experimentalism that is the clearest heir of the modernist project.