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Category : African literature (Portuguese)
Languages : en
Pages : 420

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Author: Joao R. Figueiredo
Publisher: Tagus
ISBN: 9781933227061
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 243

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Scholars discuss the role of Camões's poetry after the demise of the empire

Author: Vitorino Nemésio
Publisher: Bellis Azorica
ISBN: 9781933227870
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Stormy Isles, originally published in Portuguese in 1944 and set in the Azores between 1917 and 1919, focuses on the vivacious and sharp Margarida, who, at twenty years of age, is a model of feminist aspirations and the paragon of her generation. A member of the elite, she foregoes some of the entitlements of her class and struggles with the morals of the bourgeois society in which her life unfolds. Narrated in realist and poetic language as a series of interconnected tales within a larger story, this completely revised translation of Stormy Isles provides a rich, vivid portrait of the Azores in the early twentieth century.

Author: Victor K. Mendes
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498595383
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 237

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Portuguese Literature and the Environment explores the relationship between Portuguese literature and the environment from Medieval times to the present. From the centrality of nature in Medieval poetry, through the bucolic verse of the Renaissance, all the way to the Romantic and post-Romantic nostalgia for a pristine natural or rural landscape under threat in the wake of industrialization, Portuguese literature has frequently reflected on the connection between humans and the natural world. More recently, the postcolonial turn in contemporary literature has highlighted the contrast between the environment of the former colonies and that of Portugal. Contributors to the collection examine how Portuguese writers engage with the environment and have incorporated nature in their texts not only to prompt social, political or philosophical reflections on human society, but also as a way to learn from non-humans. The book is organized into three sections. The first explores the relationship between Portuguese philosophy, historiography, culture, and environmental issues. The second section discusses the link between literary texts and the environment from the Renaissance to 1900. The final section analyzes the connection between literary movements or specific authors and environmental change from 1900 to today. Scholars of literature, Latin American studies, literature, and environmental studies will find this volume especially useful.

Author: João Cezar de Castro Rocha
Publisher: Tagus
ISBN: 9781933227436
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A collection of innovative and insightful essays providing a critical and theoretical reflection on the concept and history of Lusofonia

Author: Robert Henry Moser
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813550572
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 415

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Portuguese and Cape Verdean immigrants have had a significant presence in North America since the nineteenth century. Recently, Brazilians have also established vibrant communities in the U.S. This anthology brings together, for the first time in English, the writings of these diverse Portuguese-speaking, or "Luso-American" voices. Historically linked by language, colonial experience, and cultural influence, yet ethnically distinct, Luso-Americans have often been labeled an "invisible minority." This collection seeks to address this lacuna, with a broad mosaic of prose, poetry, essays, memoir, and other writings by more than fifty prominent literary figures--immigrants and their descendants, as well as exiles and sojourners. It is an unprecedented gathering of published, unpublished, forgotten, and translated writings by a transnational community that both defies the stereotypes of ethnic literature, and embodies the drama of the immigrant experience.

Author: Manuel da Costa Fontes
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791493008
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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Folklore and Literature shows how modern folklore supplements an understanding of the early oral tradition and enhances the knowledge of the early literature. Besides documenting how writers incorporated folklore into their works, this book allows us to understand crucial passages whose learned authors took for granted a familiarity with the oral tradition, thus enabling us to restore those passages to their intended meaning. Studying the vicissitudes of oral transmission in great detail, this is the first book exclusively dedicated to the relationship between folklore and literature in a Luso-Brazilian context, taking into account the pan-Hispanic and other traditions as well. Some of the folkloric passages included are: Puputiriru; Celestina; El idolatra de Maria; Remando Vao Remadores; Barca Bela; Flerida; and Don Duarodos.

Author: Victor K. Mendes
Publisher: Portuguese Literary and Cultur
ISBN: 9781933227122
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A collection of provocative and insightful essays by leading scholars on Portugal's foremost living novelist, António Lobo Antunes

Author: Victor K. Mendes
Publisher: Tagus Press
ISBN: 9781933227177
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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An interdisciplinary collection of essays re-examining the most celebrated work of Portuguese Romanticism, Travels in My Homeland (1846), by Almeida Garrett

Author: Ana Maria Machado
Publisher: Brazilian Literature in Transl
ISBN: 9781933227955
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Based upon the author's own experiences of life, exile, and return under the dictatorship that gripped Brazil in the 1960s and 1970s, Freedom Sun in the Tropics follows Lena, a journalist, as she resists violence and political repression, and decides to flee to Paris. Upon her eventual return, Lena soon discovers that the dictatorship's prison walls have enclosed private lives and hold strong even after the collapse of authoritarianism. With friendship, truth, and family broken, she struggles to make the difficult return to freedom and regain a sense of life -- and simple decency -- on the other side of trauma. Originally published in 1988, Ana Maria Machado's novel vividly captures one of the darkest periods in recent Brazilian history.