Brazilian literature is written in the Portuguese language by Brazilians or in Brazil, even if prior to Brazil's independence from Portugal, in 1822. During the 20th century Brazilian literature gradually shifted to a different and more Brazilian literary use of the Portuguese language.
Read more about Brazilian Literature: Colonial Period, Romanticism, Realism, Pre-Modernism, Modernism, Post-Modernism, Contemporary
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