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Joining a timely conversation within the field of intra-American literature, this study takes a fresh look at Latin America by locating fragments and making evident the mostly untold story of horizontal (south-south) contacts across a multilingual, multicultural continent.

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Introduction 1. First Undercurrents 2. Ronald de Carvalho (and Carlos Pellicer): Modern Poets of America 3. Alfonso Reyes: Mexico and Brazil in a Nutshell 4. When Mexican Poets Come to Rio de Janeiro 5. Érico Veríssimo´s Journey into Mexico 6. JoÆo GuimarÆes Rosa Between Life and Death in His Own Páramo 7. Why and for What Purpose do Latin American Fiction Writers Travel? Silviano Santiago´s Viagem ao México and The Roots and Labyrinths of Latin America 8. Nelson Pereira dos Santos and the Mexican Golden Age of Cinema 9. Paul Leduc Reads Rubem Fonseca: The Globalization of Violence or The Violence of Globalization 10. The Delicate Crime of Beto Brant and Felipe Ehrenberg 11. Undercurrents, Still Flowing Conclusion

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"Moreira´s book makes a solid contribution to the emerging field of Luso-Hispanic studies ... . Moreira´s Literary and Cultural Relations between Brazil and Mexico is a solid piece of scholarship, which will interest scholars of Brazilian, Mexican, and Latin American literature, and particularly those interested, like Moreira, in challenging the notion that ´mutual ignorance´ continues to characterize the reciprocal gazes of the Portuguese- and Spanish-speaking Americas." (Robert Patrick Newcomb, The Luso-Brazilian Review, Vol. 53 (1), June, 2016)

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Paulo Moreira is an Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University, USA.

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