DIARY OF A NORTH AMERICAN RESEARCHER IN BRAZIL III IBD

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&ldquo,Diary of a North American Researcher in Brazil III&rdquo, is the last in the series &ldquo,Stories I Told My Students.&rdquo, It is the continuation of the author&rsquo,s love affair and odyssey in Brazil, this time from 1988 to 2005.áThe volume brings to the present moments lived in Brazil and is written much more in the framework of a travel diary in Brazil. Short vignettes about people and places flavor the book. There is emphasis on academic conferences with many &ldquo,Brazilian Stories,&rdquo, the publication of works in Brazil, and more important, times shared with &ldquo,cordel&rdquo, poets, professors and researchers of Brazilian literature, folklore and &ldquo,popular literature in verse.&rdquo,áSomething new in this final phase of research, writing and professional life was the time spent in the city of Sao Paulo, at first glance an unlikely place for a student of folklore. A special moment was the participation in a unique event: &ldquo,100 Years of Cordel&rdquo, sponsored by the SESC-POMPEIA in 2001 in that city. Others were with &ldquo,cordel&rdquo, poets and poet-singers in the Northeastern Cultural Center in Sao Paulo, and with Sérgio Miceli of the University of Sao Paulo Press and Plínio Martins of &ldquo,Ateliê&rdquo, Press, dealing with the publication of Curran&rsquo,s final research efforts in Brazil.áAnd lastly the book recalls fondly the time spent with friends who were with me in moments of happiness but also of solitude and some loneliness. I dedicate the book to all of them: &ldquo,cordel&rdquo, poets, researchers, professors, writers, friends, and to the person who sustained me most, my wife Keah.