Idelber Avelar
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Idelber Avelar

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Idelber Avelar is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Tulane University, in New Orleans. A native of Brazil, he holds a Ph.D. from Duke University and an M.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His first book, "The Untimely Present: Postdictatorial Latin American Fiction and the Task of Mourning" (Duke UP, 1999) won the MLA Katherine Singer Kovacs award and was published in Portuguese and Spanish. He is also the author of "The Letter of Violence: Essays on Narrative, Ethics, and Politics (Palgrave, 2004) and the co-editor of "Brazilian Popular Music and Citizenship" (Duke, 2011). He has published over 60 articles in scholarly journals in Europe and the Americas.
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