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Felipe Botelho Correa

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Felipe Botelho Correa

Brazil

Felipe Botelho Correa (PhD, University of Oxford) is Associate Professor of Brazilian, Portuguese and Lusophone African Studies at King’s College London. He is the editor of Lima Barreto: Sátiras e outras subversões (Penguin, 2016) and Crônicas da Bruzundanga: a literatura militante de Lima Barreto.

Articles by Felipe Botelho Correa

Afro-Brazilian Crusader: On Lima Barreto
By Felipe Botelho Correa
According to Barreto himself, the aim of his crusade was to produce a type of literature that he defined as “militante,” engaging with the society’s most pressing issues and communicating these issues to a wider audience in accessible language.