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- In lieu of an abstract, this is an excerpt from the first page: "During my year-and-a-half stay in Brazil as Fulbright professor of American literature at the University of São Paulo, in 1969-70, I was asked by the United States Information Service (U.S.I.S.) to give lectures on U.S. literature and society throughout certain sections of the country. This request came after I participated in a six-part "literature and society" lecture series. The series of a different speaker each week over a period of six weeks, included lectures by the novelist and critic Alvaro Lins and the sociologist-historian Gilberto Freyre. On two of my three lecture tours, those taken in April-May 1970, I kept a journal. To be sure, nothing extraordinary happened to me on these short lecture tours, while I was there, certainly nothing that would make my notations of historical significance. But these were parlous times in Brazil, and one could sense tenseness everywhere, especially at the universities that I visited."
Citation
Monteiro, George,
"Brazil Journals (1970)"
(2016).
BRASIL/BRAZIL: A Journal of Brazilian Literature.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://doi.org/10.26300/essz-3j83
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BRASIL/BRAZIL: A Journal of Brazilian Literature
...BRASIL/BRAZIL: A Journal of Brazilian Literature (ISSN: 2526-4885), founded in 1988, publishes scholarly articles on Brazilian literature and in Comparative Literature with a focus on Brazilian literature, as well as book reviews, interviews with writers, English-language translations of Brazilian literature …