Portuguese Studies articles from January 1 2003

Portuguese Studies archives from January 1 2003

The socio-lyrical cartography of Sentimento do Mundo.
January 1, 2003... Non sono mai stato tanto attacato alla vita Ungaretti, 'Veglia' If, in Brejo das Almas (1934), faced with the polarization of the intelligentsia in the 1930s, (1) we still find Carlos Drummond de Andrade imprisoned...

Allegories of nation? A reading of Jose Cardoso Pires's novel O Delfim.
January 1, 2003... The definition of nation as an 'imagined community' (1) and the recognition that national cultures constitute 'a discursive device which represents difference as unity or identity' have become in recent years a widely shared presupposition of...

Places and people: Jose Saramago's Viagem a Portugal.
January 1, 2003... One October afternoon in 1979, Jose Saramago crossed from Spain into Portugal at Miranda do Douro and began a six-month car journey that was to take him to all regions and districts of his homeland. The account of this journey appeared in March...

Spanking Florbela: Adilia Lopes and a genealogy of feminist parody in Portuguese poetry.
January 1, 2003... The poet Adilia Lopes has become an increasingly prominent presence on the Portuguese literary scene since 1985 when her first volume of poetry, Um jogo bastante perigoso, was published. In 1999 her fourteenth collection of verse, Florbela...

The 'third side' of conversions or recycling research?
January 1, 2003... In the preface to Conversions and Citizenry: Goa under Portugal, 1510-1610, (1) the author, Delio de Mendonca, states that he will go beyond 'one or two' sides of history to retrieve the 'third side' of conversions by using 'known material'...

The Jesuits in China: a new perspective.
January 1, 2003... Liam Brockey's doctoral dissertation proposes a new vision of the history of the Society of Jesus in China, from its inception in 1579 until the first decade of the eighteenth century. (1) It deals with a period characterized by both a...

Globalization and the semi-peripheral condition.
January 1, 2003... A Sociedade Portuguesa Perante o Desafio da Globalizacao or 'Portuguese Society Facing the Challenge of Globalization' is the title of a collection of eight volumes, edited by Boaventura de Sousa Santos, that constitutes the most up-to-date and...

Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976. By PIERO GLEIJESES. Chapel Hill, CA and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. 552 pp. Hardback. In November 1975 Cuba launched the largest military intervention in...

Latin American Literature: Symptoms, Risks & Strategies of Post-Structuralist Criticism.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Latin American Literature: Symptoms, Risks & Strategies of Post-Structuralist Criticism. By BERNARD MCGUIRK. London: Routledge, 1997. xiv + 265 pp. [pounds sterling]72.50. The only excuse for a review which--even bearing in mind the...

Bibliographic and research information.
January 1, 2003... The following pages list publications and theses, in English, relating to the Portuguese-speaking world which were published or presented, for the most part, in 2002 to early 2003. Some slightly earlier items are included as are some theses...

The machine of the world and the man-machine: cosmo-vision and individual consciousness in times of certainty and times of doubt.
January 1, 2003... Descartes writes that 'je ne reconnois aucune difference entre les machines que font les artisans et les divers corps que la nature seule compose'. The machine, then, serves as model to explore and understand nature, 'et il est certain que...

The aesthetic of fragmentation and the use of personae in the poetry of Fernando Pessoa and W. B. Yeats.
January 1, 2003... The notion of a 'fragmented subject' emerged historically in the latter part of the nineteenth century, reflecting discoveries in the fields of psychology and cultural anthropology. Robert Langbaum has referred to this phenomenon in literature...

Equivocal connections: Fonseca Cardoso and the origins of Portuguese colonial anthropology.
January 1, 2003... This article is about the equivoques of anthropology's colonial encounter as well as the story of intellectual artefacts. It addresses an old debate on the genealogy of anthropological knowledge, at the core of which is a shared assumption:...

Subjects of confession, objects of desire: (dis)engaging constructs of sex, power and sin in Eca de Queiros's O Crime do Padre Amaro.
January 1, 2003... CONFESSING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY Generally acclaimed by the critical establishment as the novel that best charts Eca de Queiros's literary aesthetic development through rigorously sustained naturalist techniques to more poignant...

Decalque as a linguistic integration strategy of Yoruba loan words in Brazilian Portuguese.
January 1, 2003... The presence of blacks in Brazil is an indubitable historical fact. After Nigeria, Brazil is the country with the second largest concentration of black population in the world. The coming of the blacks to Brazil dates from the beginning of the...

Julio Dinis and history revisited: what good is a dead mother?
January 1, 2003... History would be an excellent thing if only it were true. Tolstoy Reference to Julio Dinis in an academic context almost invariably gives rise to a paradox: dismissal of his standing as a forgettable pedlar of adolescent literatura...

Travelling objects: the story of two natural history collections in the nineteenth century.
January 1, 2003... This paper will explore the journey of two distinct natural history collections assembled by the naturalists Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772-1844) and Friedrich Welwitsch (1806-72), one from Brazil to Lisbon and Paris, the other from...

The rhetoric of prophecy in Portuguese Renaissance literature.
January 1, 2003... I shall be dealing with a cultural period falling between two dynastic crises, in 1383 and in 1580, which threatened Portugal's independence. The different outcomes of these crises elicited two opposing perceptions of history. The first is...

Vasco da Gama's voyage: myths and realities in maritime history.
January 1, 2003... Five hundred years after Vasco da Gama's voyage to India it can easily be said that what we really know about it is more the result of a reappreciation of general information about the Carreira da India, than the reflection of precise data...

Introductory note.
January 1, 2003... The wide range of articles published in this volume, with contributions from scholars working in Lusophone and related subjects in several countries, confirms the continued vitality of the journal. Portuguese Studies associates itself with...