Brazilian literature is the literature written in the Portuguese language by Brazilians or in Brazil, including works written prior to the country's independence in 1822.
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12 Facts About Brazilian literature
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Key features of the Brazilian literature of the newborn country are exaggerated affect, nationalism, celebration of nature and the initial introduction of colloquial language.
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Brazilian literature Realism was not very original at first, but it took on extraordinary importance because of Machado de Assis and Euclides da Cunha.
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Brazilian literature discovered, for instance, that Sebastianism was then present in the Brazilian North-East and that many medieval Portuguese rhymes, folk-tales and traditions were still kept by the coarse people of the "sertoes".
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Brazilian literature worked as a professor and was one of the organizers of the Week of Modern Art.
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Brazilian literature researched Brazilian folklore and folk music and used it in his books, avoiding the European style.
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Brazilian literature is the author of the Manifesto Antropofago, in which he says it is necessary that Brazil, like a cannibal, eat foreign culture and, in digestion, create its own culture.
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Jorge Amado, one of best-known of modern Brazilian writers, tried with his novels to approximate his works to a proletarian literature, he himself was a member of the communist party which defended Socialist realism at the time.
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Brazilian literature's sports writing describes the evolution of football into the national passion of Brazil.
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Brazilian literature was heavily critical of the young leftists who opposed the military dictatorship after the 1964 coup; for that he was penned as right-wing and conservative.
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Contemporary Brazilian literature is, on the whole, very much focused on city life and all its aspects: loneliness, violence, political issues and media control.
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In recent years, "marginal Brazilian literature" has risen to prominence with authors and poets such as Sergio Vaz and Ferrez making appearances at important events like Festa Literaria Internacional de Paraty, Flipside and Bienal do Livro de Sao Paulo.
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