Subaltern Writings

Fernando de Sousa Rocha received his PhD in comparative literature from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Dr. Rocha is currently Assistant Professor of Portuguese at Middlebury College and has been the recipient of the Ada Howe Kent grant. His latest publications are «Recovering Voices: The Popular Music Ear in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Brazil» in Media, Sound, and Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean (edited by Alejandra Bronfman and Andrew Grant Wood) as well as the articles A conexão Alencar-Freyre: ‘comos’ e ‘porquês’ em duas narrativas de formação (2012) and ‘Tudo cato’: as formas do circular no diário Quarto de despejo de Carolina Maria de Jesus (2011).

• Contents: In the Beginning Was the Lesser Being (And the Word) – A Few Viventes – Acquisition (i): Home-made Indianist Writing (at Hand’s Reach) – Acquisition (ii): Graphic (and Real) Death and the Maiden – Impossible, Inevitable Caetés - or - Unending Primitivism – Among Bulls and Goats – Literary Barbarians and a Modernist Sublation - Lullabying – The Death of the Poet is the Birth of the Domestic Voice – Looming Revolution – The Solitary Act before the Letter of the Law (And Final Notes).