Its journey along time and space represents not only the process of consolidation of an academic journal whose first publication was back in 1979 as "A Journal of Criticism Centering Around the Invisible Generation", but also the mapping of a culturally marked space that shows the value of transnational partnership among scholars in a connected world. Along time, the journal has had a double mission: to think critically about cultural production within the Anglophone world, and to offer to its readers state-of-the-art bilingual research in English Language, Literatures in English, and Cultural Studies originating in different local, national and transnational contexts, collecting and making available work by scholars from all over Brazil and worldwide. Ilha do Desterro is available in a range of international electronic databases, such as SCOPUS,
Cooper and Alencar provide representative examples of how, in the nineteenth century, a literature of national identity began to be built in two new American nations. By the beginning of this century, affirming difference and defining nationality had become less critical for the United States as the nation's cultural and economic power grew. The early literatures of nationality in the United States and Brazil are easily comparable because the power relations between the United States and England, on one hand, and between Brazil and Portugal, on the other, were similar; so were the new nations' tasks of affirming national identity and claiming cultural parity with the former metro poles. In time, however, power relations between the United States and England (or Europe) changed. When the United States began to be a world power, its economic, military, and cultural influence was added to that which Europe (mainly France and England, but Portugal as well) still exercised on Brazil. The modernism of Mario de Andrade was therefore a continuation of the romanticism of Alencar in a way in which that of Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, or Gertrude Stein was not a continuation of Cooper's. The new literary idiom of Brazilian modernists expressed relations of power in terms similar to those of its predecessors in the previous century and continued to concern itself with defining national ity in reference to a powerful other. But as before, these cultural products from the margin can also play a role in the ideological economy of the dominant cultures. The so
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