​Brazilian Texts:

• Anderson, Benedict, “Introduction” and “Cultural Roots,” Imagined Communities (London: Verso, 1991): 1-9; 9-37
• Alves, Maria Theresa Abelha, “Primeiras estórias: a alteridade inventada no feliz” in Veredas de Rosa, I, Seminário internacional Guimarães Rosa 1998-2000, Belo Horizonte: PUC Minas, 2000, p. 346-350.
• Candido, Antonio. “O sertão e o Mundo” in Diálogo, numero 8, novembro de 1957.
• Coutinho, Afrânio, An Introduction to Literature in Brazil (NY: Columbia UP, 1969)
• Coutinho, Eduardo (org). Guimarães Rosa, Col. Fortuna crítica, Rio de Janeiro, Civilização Brasileira, 1991
• Crofts, Stephen, “Concepts of National Cinema” in John Hill and Pamela Church Gibson, Eds. World Cinema. Critical Approaches. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000: 1-11
• Daniel, Mary L, João Guimarães Rosa,: travesia literária, Rio de Janeiro, Livraria Jose Olympio Editora, 1968.
• Da Matta, Roberto, Carnivals, Rogues and Heroes. Dartmouth: University of Notre Dame Press, 1992
• Dennison, Stephanie and Lisa Shaw, Popular Cinema in Brazil (Manchester: Manchester UP, 2004).
• Dunn, Chris, Brutality Garden. Tropicália and the Emergence of a Brazilian Counterculture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001
• Gomes, Paulo Emilo Sales. Cinema: Trajetória no subdesenvolvimento. (São Paulo: Paz e Terra, 1986).
• Johnson, Randal. The Film Industry in Brazil. Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh University Press, 1987.
• Johnson Randal and Robert Stam, Eds. Brazilian Cinema. (NY: Columbia UP, 1996)
• Johnson, Randal. "Tupy or not Tupy: Cannibalism and Nationalism in Contemporary Brazilian Literature and Culture." In Modern Latin American Fiction: A Survey, ed. John King. London:  Faber & Faber, 1987, 41-59. U.S. edition: On Modern Latin American Fiction. New York: The Noonday Press of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989, 41-59.
• Johnson, Randal. "Brazilian Modernism: An Idea out of Place?" In Modernism and its Margins: Reinscribing Cultural Modernity from Spain and Latin America. Ed. A.L. Geist and J.B. Monleón. New York: Garland Publishing, 1999, 186-214.
• Lima, Luiz Costa, “O Mundo em Perspectiva: Guimarães Rosa”, in Guimarães Rosa, (sel. Eduardo Coutinho) Civilização brasileira, Rio de Janeiro, 1983, p. 500-513.
• Martins, Wilson, The Modernist Idea
• Nagib, Lúcia, The New Brazilian Cinema. London: IB Tauris, 2003
• Nagib, Lúcia, Brazil on Screen. London: IB Tauris, 2007
• Nagib, Lúcia, 'Back to the margins in search of the core: Foreign Land's geography of exclusion', in Dina Iordanova, David Martin-Jones & Belén Vidal (eds), Cinema at the Periphery: Industries, Narratives, Iconography. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2010.
• Nist, John, The Modernist Movement in Brazil
• Owen, Hilary. “Discardable Discourses in Patrícia Galvão’s Parque Industrial.” Brazilian Feminisms. Eds. Solange Ribeiro de Oliveira and Judith Still. Nottingham: University of Nottingham Monographs in the Humanities, 1999. 68-84.
• Perrone, Charles. Seven Faces: Brazilian Poetry Since Modernism. Durham, NC:  Duke University Press, 1996.
• Perrone, Charles and Chris Dunn, Brazilian Popular Music and Globalization  Gainesville, FL:  University Press of Florida, 2001.
• Pinto, Cristina Ferreira. O bildungsroman feminino: quatro exemplos brasileiros. São Paulo: Perspectiva, 1990. Print.
• Sá, Lúcia, “Zola in Rio de Janeiro. The Production of Space in Aluisio de Azevedo’s O Cortiço in Portuguese Studies, Vol. 26, No. 2, pp. 183-204.
• Sadlier, Darlene, “Leaving Home in Three Films by Walter Salles” Symploke Vol. 15 (1-2) 2007: 125-39
• Shaw, Lisa and Stephanie Dennison, Brazilian National Cinema (London: Routledge, 2007).
• Shaw, Lisa, “The Brazilian Chachada and Hollywood Paradigms (1930-1959), in Framework Vol. 44, No. 1, pp. 70-83.
• Schwarz, Roberto, Misplaced Ideas. Trans and Edited by John Gledson, London: Verso, 1991
• Sodré, Nelson Wernek, O Naturalismo no Brasil (São Paulo: Civilização Brasileira 1965)
• Stam Robert and Joao Luiz Vieira, “Parody and Marginality. The Case of Brazilian Cinema,”Framework (28) 1985: 20-49
• Stam, Robert, Tropical Multiculturalism. A Comparative History of Race in Brazilian Cinema and Culture (Durham NC: Duke UP, 1997): 79-107
• Stam, Robert, Subversive Pleasures. Bakhtin, Cultural Criticism and Film. (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press): 122-157
• Viany, Alex Introdução ao cinema brasileiro (Rio de Janeiro: Ministério da educação e cultura, 1956
• Williams, Daryl, Culture Wars in Brazil: The First Vargas Regime, 1930-1945(Durham: Duke UP, 2001), Chapter 1.
• Xavier, Ismail. Allegories of Underdevelopment.Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1987
• Unruh, Vicky. Performing Women and Literary Culture in Latin America. Austin: University of Texas, 2006. Google Books. Web. 10 February 2014.
• Wasserman, Renata R Mautner. Central at the Margin: Five Brazilian Women Writers. Lewisburg: Bucknell University, 2007. Print.