Portuguese Studies articles from January 1 2002

Portuguese Studies archives from January 1 2002

Fragments from a translation of a Portuguese sea manual.(16th century English manuscript )
January 1, 2002... There is in the British Library a sixteenth-century English manuscript containing, among other things, a translation of a contemporary Portuguese sailing manual and pilot-book for West Africa and Brazil. (1) Nothing is known about the history...

Vasco da Gama as narrator in Os Lusiadas.(Portuguese epic by Luys de Camoes)
January 1, 2002... Frank Kermode observes that 'Permanent modernity is conferred on chosen works by arguments and persuasions that cannot themselves remain modern'. (1) Old books continue to be read because they are read in new ways. The changing interpretations...

Camoes: ambiguous imperialist.(Luis Vaz de Camoes' 1490s diary)
January 1, 2002... Luis Vaz de Camoes depicted one of the first recorded meetings between Europe and southern Africa in his maritime epic about Vasco da Gama's voyage to India, Os Lusiadas. He presented Africa in a predictable enough way from a postcolonial point...

Um Auto de Gil Vicente and the tradition of comedy.(Almeida Garrett's 1838 Portuguese drama)
January 1, 2002... Garrett, as dramatist, tends to be a man of a single work. (1) This seems always to have been the case. During his lifetime Frei Luis de Sousa had 293 performances at the Teatro Nacional, while his other plays were performed only a handful of...

Eca de Queiroz.(life of Portuguese writer)
January 1, 2002... In 1908, at the age of eighty-two, Eca's mother, Carolina Augusta Eca de Queiroz, descended the Chiado, dressed in grey, with a little dark hat decorated with white aigrettes. In spite of the recent death of her husband and her eldest son, she...

In search of a phallus: Jacinto's true quest in A Cidade e As Serras.(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... A Cidade e As Serras is a story of skeletons and closet cases. Indeed, a suppressed homoerotic framework structures the whole novel; Eca's narrator reveals, through possessive epithets and pulchritudinous appellations, the object of his desire,...

The old bohemian Lisbon (c. 1870-c. 1920): prostitutes, criminals and bohemians.
January 1, 2002... Western Europe in the late nineteenth century had its own particular system of moral and social values and created an ideological framework that reflected the desires, fears and aspirations of those who were politically dominant. This was...

Public Memory and Power in Portugal (1880-1960).(reflections on centenary commemorations)
January 1, 2002... (Translated by Landeg White) Between 1880 and 1960, there occurred in Portugal a significant number of centenary commemorations related to the discoveries, the expansion and the building of successive Portuguese empires. Despite the vast...

Women's Organizations and Imperial Ideology under the Estado Novo.(1930-60s Portuguese political groups)
January 1, 2002... One of the major concerns of Salazar's Estado Novo in Portugal, after the institutionalization of the regime by the Constitution of 1933, and the creation in the same year of the political police (PVDE), the Secretariat for National Propaganda...

Empire, Colonial Wars and Post-Colonialism in the Portuguese contemporary imagination.
January 1, 2002... In his studies on Portuguese society as it operates in a global context and on Portugal's integration into the European Community, Boaventura de Sousa Santos considers the Portuguese state to be the principal steward of the political, economic...

In between wor[l]ds: the image of the 'entrelugar' in Joao Cabral de Melo Neto's Agrestes.
January 1, 2002... Joao Cabral's group of poems entitled Agrestes was published in 1985, and can be read as the poet's reflections on his life and his anxieties about death. Perhaps more than any of his earlier volumes, Agrestes demonstrates the poet's more...

Speaking in tongues: the multiple personalities of Maria Gabriela Llansol.
January 1, 2002... In English, as in Portuguese, the symbolism and significance of the tongue is patent in the number of idiomatic expressions in which it appears: it can be silver, lost, found, held, bitten, wagged, tied or twisted, sharp or forked, civil or...

Prince Henry 'the Navigator': A Life.(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... Prince Henry 'the Navigator': A Life. By Peter Russell. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000. 452 pp. 20[pounds sterling]. Paperback, Yale Nota Bene, 2001. 448 pp. 11.99[pounds sterling]. This extensive and long-awaited...

Eca's English Letters.(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... Eca's English Letters. By Eca de Queiro s. Ed. by Alison Aiken, trans. by Alison Aiken and Ann Stevens, and introduced by Jonathan Keates. Manchester: Carcanet Press, 2000. xxiv+184 pp. Paperback 12.95 [pounds sterling]. During his...