Approaches to Comparative Literature and Inter-American dialogues: a tribute to Renata R. Mautner Wasserman

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is a native of Rio de Janeiro, and was educated in Brazil and the United States. He is a Full Professor of Brazilian and Comparative Literature, and a former Chair of the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at Brown University. His publications include História e ficção: convergências e contrastes, Mundivivências: leituras comparativas de Guimarães Rosa, and more than eighty book chapters and articles in journals in the United States, Brazil and Europe. Valente is co-editor of Brasil/Brazil: A