Essays on Hilda Hilst: Between Brazil and World Literature

Introduction: "Who's Afraid of Hilda Hilst? An Author Between Brazil and 'World Literature'"; Adam Morris & Bruno Carvalho.- PART I: HILST ON STAGE- 1. "A Brazilian Teorema: Queering the Family in Hilda Hilst's O Visitante (The Visitor)"; David William Foster.- 2. "Is the Word Alive? An Inquiry into Poetics and Theater in As aves da noite (Nightbirds) by Hilda Hilst"; Tatiana Franca R. Zanirato.- PART II: OBSCENITY AND THE HUMAN CONDITION- 3. "Figurations of Eros in Hilda Hilst"; Eliane Robert Moraes.- 4. "Hilda Hilst, Metaphysician"; Adam Morris.- PART III: HILST IN NATIONAL AND GLOBAL CONTEXT- 5. "A Nation on the Ground Floor: The Face of Brazil, Drawn with Hilda Hilst's Political Pen"; Deneval Siqueira de Azevedo Filho.- 6. "When Life is Extremely Bourgeois": Ideal love and non-conformism in the love poems of Hilda Hilst; Alva Martínez Teixeiro.- PART IV: HILST IN TRANSLATION.- 7. "Translating Brazil's Marquise de Sade"; John Keene.- 8. "Derelict of Duty"; Nathanaël.- 9. Hilst on Hilst: Excerpts from interviews with the author, 1952-2003.