literary history of latin america
(with Nina Pluta) Historia literatur iberoamerykańskich [History of Iberoamerican Literatures], Wrocław, Ossolineum, 2010, 768 pp.
ISBN 978-83-04-04995-6
Summary
The book is an extensive presentation of the Latin American literature written in Spanish and Portuguese. My part in it (pp. 591-738) is the presentation of the Brazilian literary history, since its colonial beginnings till the dawn of the 21st century. The approach is divided in five chapters, going from the European discovery, the colonial period and the dawn of Brazilian identity till the idiosyncratic conceptualization of post-modernity in Brazil. The main axis of this narration in literary history is given by the search for a definition of "Brazilianness", the concept "verde-amarelo" in permanent de/re-construction.
ISBN 978-83-04-04995-6
Summary
The book is an extensive presentation of the Latin American literature written in Spanish and Portuguese. My part in it (pp. 591-738) is the presentation of the Brazilian literary history, since its colonial beginnings till the dawn of the 21st century. The approach is divided in five chapters, going from the European discovery, the colonial period and the dawn of Brazilian identity till the idiosyncratic conceptualization of post-modernity in Brazil. The main axis of this narration in literary history is given by the search for a definition of "Brazilianness", the concept "verde-amarelo" in permanent de/re-construction.
papers in latin american studies
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"The Brazilian case: Towards a paradigm of trans-colonial studies", Politeja, nr 6(38) / 2015, p. 181-194. ISSN 1733-6716
The aim of this article is to discuss the limited applicability of the “standard” post -colonial method in the analysis of the Brazilian literature and culture. A new, trans -colonial paradigm is proposed instead, focusing on emerging idiosyncrasies rather than on the process of critical deconstruction of the European discourses and ideologies. In a comparative perspective confronting the studied case with other situations in the world, the article presents particular circumstances that shaped the trans -colonial pattern of development of the Brazilian culture. The factors and phenomena taken into the account are: the proportions of economic and cultural strength between the colony and its metropolis, the dynamics of the identity search that followed the moment of formal independence, the peculiarity related to the predominance of a non -printed (oral or handwritten) culture and finally the emergence of cultural distinctiveness alien to Eurocentric canons. 
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