Dez anos da ABRALIC (1986-1996) : elementos para sua história

• Autor(a) principal: Carvalhal, Tania Franco
• Data de Publicação: 1996
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFRGS
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10183/174051
• topic: Literatura comparada; Abralic. História : 1986-1996

1985. Antonio Candido was appointed for the Executive Committee of the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA), during the XI Conference, in Paris. One year after the XI Congress, Porto Alegre, favoured by its geographic location, and natural bilinguism and multiculturalism, becomes the site for the Comparative Literature Brazilian Association, ABRALIC. The Latin-American participation and perspective were the central themes of the I Seminar, which was fully succesful in its proposes. Three congresses were held ever since and in August 1992, ICLA gathered together for the first time in Latin America, precisely at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. The success of the Brazilian initiative is complete and the creation of several graduated courses and other institutions, similar to ABRALIC, in the neighbouring countries give evidence of that