Essays on Hilda Hilst Between Brazil and World Literature
The first collection of critical essays on Hilda Hilst (1930-2004) published in English, this book brings together a variety of perspectives on one of Latin America’s most inventive and innovative authors. Nine essays by scholars and translators ref
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ESSAYS ON HILDA HILST Between Brazil and World Literature Edited by
Adam Morris Bruno Carvalho
Literatures of the Americas Series Editor Norma E. Cantú Trinity University San Antonio, TX, USA “Essays on Hilda Hilst is an excellent – and badly needed – book about one of modern Brazilian literature’s most brilliant and challenging writers. Provocative and enigmatic, Hilst has challenged readers in Brazil for a long time. Now, largely through translations of her work that have started to appear, she is fast gaining a global reputation. Yet she and her complex, multifaceted work have resisted explication. This book will help change all that. Edited and with an insightful introduction by two scholars eminently familiar with Hilst’s work, Adam Morris and Bruno Carvalho, Hilda Hilst and Brazilian Literature offers a series of essays that examine all aspects of the Brazilian writer’s art, her (in)famous poetry, her work in the theater, her explorations of obscenity as Art, the politics of human sexuality, the nature of her existence in translation, and her importance both as a Brazilian writer and as a rising star in world literature.” —Earl E. Fitz, Professor of Portuguese, Spanish, and Comparative Literature, Vanderbildt University, USA “Essentially unknown outside her native Brazil, Hilda Hilst is regarded in her own country as one of the most important and polemical voices in Brazilian contemporary literature. As the first volume of critical studies on Hilda Hilst to appear in English, this collection gathers an impressive array of scholars who offer incisive and astute insights into Hilda Hilst’s multi-faceted literary production: from her poetry, to her unconventional, philosophical and generically fluid prose, and her sophisticated, politically-inflected drama. Its value and significance both for those who are well acquainted with Hilst’s literary production as well as those who are new to her work is certain to endure.” —Luís Madureira, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and African Cultural Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
This series seeks to bring forth contemporary critical interventions within a hemispheric perspective, with an emphasis on perspectives from Latin America. Books in the series highlight work that explores concerns in literature in different cultural contexts across historical and geographical boundaries and also include work on the specific Latina/o realities in the United States. Designed to explore key questions confronting contemporary issues of literary and cultural import, Literatures of the Americas is rooted in traditional approaches to literary criticism but seeks to include cutting-edge scholarship using theories from postcolonial, critical race, and ecofeminist approaches. More information about this series at http://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/14819
Adam Morris · Bruno Carvalho Editors
Essays on Hilda Hilst Between Brazil and World Literature
Editors Adam Morris San Francisco, CA, USA
Bruno Carvalho Brooklyn, NY, USA
Literatures of the Americas ISBN 978-3-319-5
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