Between Latin American Studies and Comparative Literature

FLORENCIA GARRAMUÑO

Mntreal

Conferencia; ACLA; 2021

American Comparative Literature Association

Latin American Literary Studies have always been, in some ways ? as has been already argued by many scholars ? comparative (Catelli 2017, Gramuglio 2011) . But from Antonio Candido?s remark that ?a literatura brasileira é um galho secundário da literatura portuguesa? (?Brazilian literature is a secondary branch of Portuguese literature?) to recent work on Contemporary Latin American Literature, the meaning of ?comparative? has undergone a radical transformation. This intervention seeks to track some of these changes and to theorize about the possibilities they open up for a redefined comparative literature by analyzing a few works of Latin American literary studies (Antonio Candido?s Literatura Brasileira, Ángel Rama, La transculturación narrativa en América Latina, Josefina Ludmer, Aquí América Latina, y Gabriel Giorgi, Formas comunes).