Global impact of the Portuguese language / Asela Rodríguez de Laguna, editor.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Rodríguez-Seda de Laguna, Asela.

Conference Name:

International Conference on Portugal & Portuguese-Speaking Literature (1st : 1998 : Rutgers University)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Portuguese literature--History and criticism--Congresses.

Portuguese literature.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xxii, 284 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction, [2001]

Contents:

Part 1 Different Cultural Perspectives of Portuguese Writing

1. Portugal: The New Frontier / Helder M. Macedo 3

The Voices of the Writers

2. Distance Sounds (Some Portuguese Fiction) / Almeida Faria 11

3. The Golden Impossibility / Helia Correia 17

4. Curse of the Left Testicle: Histories of Womanhood from Antiquity to the Scientific Revolution / Clara Pinto Correia 27

5. My Hunt for King Sebastiao: How We Invite Miracles into Art and Everyday Life / Katherine Vaz 51

Critical Approaches to Camoes

6. Exile under Fire: Reassessing the Poetics and Practice of Manuel de Faria e Sousa / John de Oliveira e Silva 61

7. First Encounters: Epic, Gender and the Portuguese Overseas Venture / Rene P. Garay 77

Fictionalizing the Nation

8. Literature Transactions: How Students Respond to the Epic The Lusiads / Luisa Araujo 95

9. Maria Iconoclast's American Adventure in Viagens d'Altina (1790): Ideological Fictions / Christopher C. Lund 101

10. Nineteenth-Century Portuguese Novelist Eca de Queiros (1845-1900): From Realism/Naturalism to an "Aesthetics of Imperfection" / Frank F. Sousa 107

11. "Tell Me the Mother You Had...": Anti-Feminist Discourses and the Making of The Portuguese Home / Ana Paula Ferreira 127

12. Construction of Identity in Portuguese Contemporary Narrative / Jose N. Ornelas 145

13. Invitation to the Voyage / Paulo de Medeiros 167

Part 2 Portuguese Language and Writing Outside Portugal

Lusophone Languages and Literary Expressions

14. Vernacular, Literary, Vehicular, and Official: The Portuguese Language in Africa / Russell G. Hamilton 181

15. Portugal Revisited, Brazil Rediscovered / Cesar Braga-Pinto 189

16. The Post-Colonial Mozambican Fiction / Ana Mafalda Leite 199

17. Revolutionary Utopias and the Imagined Nation in the Narratives of Pepetela / Phyllis A. Peres 211

Portuguese-American Literature

18. Songs of Fate: Portuguese Writing in America / Katherine Vaz 221

19. Two Decades of Luso-American Literature: An Overview / Onesimo T. Almeida 231

20. Portuguese Literature and Criticism Available in English: Suggested Readings 257.

Notes:

Papers from the First International Conference on Portugal & Portuguese-Speaking Literature held at Rutgers-Newark in 1998.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-271) and index.

ISBN:

0765800594

0765807629

OCLC:

46969833