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Brazilian Literature: The First 500 Years
Unified by the Portuguese language, the literature of Brazil represents the cultural synthesis of three distinct influences: indigenous peoples, European émigrés, and Africans brought to the New World as slaves. This program reflects on those infl...
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Narrating Modernity: Writers of the Mid-20th Century
The mid-20th century was an era of large-scale and often tragically violent political shifts which completely changed the face of Latin American life—and art. As this program demonstrates, the rise of military dictatorships and authoritarian regim...