Clarice Lispector as a Northeastern Writer

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Notes

1 Although Clarice had little interest in practicing law, she believed that it could be a powerful force for social justice.

2 The pitanga is a cherry-like fruit.

3 A sertanejo is someone from the sertão, that is, the interior of the Northeast.

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Earl E. Fitz

Earl E. Fitz is Professor of Portuguese, Spanish, and Comparative Literature at Vanderbilt University. He regularly teaches classes on Brazilian literature, inter-American literature, comparative literature, and translation. The author of monographs on Clarice Lispector and Machado de Assis, among other works, he has just completed a new book dealing with inter-American literary history.