Stanford Humanities Center
Marília Librandi-Rocha is Assistant Professor of Luso-Brazilian and Latin American Literatures at Stanford. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory from the University of São Paulo. She is the author of Maranhão-Manhattan (Rio: 7Letras, 2009), a book of essays on meta-fictional prose and poems in brazilian literature.
SHC Project
Writing by Ear: The Senses of World Literature in South America
The project proposes a new description of Brazilian modern novels, from authors like Machado de Assis to Hilda Hilst, based on aurality and on listening in fiction, understood as a text of worldly resonances. Going beyond the oral/writing divide, and expanding to a trans-American dialogue, the book joins a theoretical current that has been examining the importance of voice and listening in written texts (from Latin American literary criticism to post-colonial and feminist studies), and it seeks to contribute to recent debates concerning the ontology of literature and the anthropology of fiction.
