Consortium for Modernismo Studies
The aim of this is consortium is to reunite an international body of scholars and students focused on Brazilian Modernismo and beyond. The consortium concentrates on literary studies and interdisciplinary perspectives and approaches around and beyond this pivotal moment in the History of Brazilian culture.The consortium proposes to explore the legacy of Modernism in Brazil in dialogue with France – a primordial cultural reference for the Modernistas; Portugal – for the criticism and questioning advanced by the first wave of Modernistas against the cultural legacy of Portuguese Colonialism; Italy – with its immigrants’ and descendants’ cultural contributions. Last but not least, the consortium endeavors to explore the points of contact with the Anglo-American experimentalisms which took place at the beginning of the twentieth century.