Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-391) and index.
Contents
How to strangle a swan: contradictions of modernity in Latin America -- Out of the prison of language: the avant garde and the first crisis of the new world -- The peanut-eating poet: Brazilian modernism -- Awakenings: the slow return to the real -- The feeling of the world: poet and society under Vargas -- Retreats and rediscoveries: public and private voices of the forties and fifties -- The architects of construction: poetry and the politics of development in post-war Brazil -- Speaking aloud: the re-entry into history -- Voices from the silence: poetry and dictatorship in Brazil -- Conclusion: against exile.