Explores the role of travel and translation in Brazilian literature and culture from the 1870s to the present.In Creative Transformations Krista Brune brings together Brazilian fiction film journalism essays and correspondence from the late nineteenth to the early twentyfirst centuries. Drawing attention to the travels of Brazilian artists and intellectuals to the United States and other parts of the Americas Brune argues that experiences of displacement have had a significant influence on their work. Across Brazilian literary and cultural history translation becomes a way of navigating and representing the resulting encounters between languages interactions with Spanish Americans and negotiations of complex identities.