Literature

Americas Society launched the latest issue of Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas entitled “Cityscapes of Rio and Bahia,” and held a discussion panel featuring a group of contemporary writers and scholars of Brazilian literature.

In this opening event of the Cityscapes of Rio and Bahia, Brazil symposium, a group of contemporary Brazilian writers, translators, and scholars of Brazilian literature discussed currents in literature from the city of Salvador (Bahia).

Review 83 features articles by leading scholars—including the guest editors above as well as Earl E. Fitz, Charles A. Perrone, Cecilia Rêgo, and Nelson H. Vieira—on a breadth of topics relating to literature from Rio de Janeiro and Bahia.

See what Literature, Music, and Visual Arts programming is taking place at Americas Society this Fall.

Review 82 “Cuba Inside and Out,” guest-edited by José Manuel Prietoand Anke Birkenmaier, compiles a creative section of texts by Cuban writers representing various generations, aesthetics, countries of residence, and positions vis-à-vis mainstream culture; and an academic section of articles by leading Cuban and U.S. scholars on a breadth of topics including a study of iconic Cuban writers and new media in Cuban literature today.