European University Institute Library

Utopia in Portugal, Brazil and Lusophone African Countries, edited by Francisco Bethencourt

eng

Includes bibiographical references and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Utopia in Portugal, Brazil and Lusophone African Countries

bibliography

916596402

edited by Francisco Bethencourt

Reconfiguring identities in the Portuguese-speaking world, vol. 4

"This book studies the history, literature and culture of Portuguese-speaking countries through the lens of utopia. The role of utopia in Portuguese literature is the object of fresh analyses ranging from Camões to Gonçalo M. Tavares, and António Vieira to José Saramago. The chapters on Angola and Mozambique show how national identity received a major boost through utopian literature <U+0127> Pepetela is the anchor in the former case, while dance is used as a crucial metaphor to reveal the tension between the colonial and postcolonial gaze in the latter case. The visions of paradise in Tupi tradition and missionary doctrine inform the approach to Brazil, developed by the study of the utopian dimension of the revolts of Canudos and Contestado. Regional contrasts and the quest for Brazilian national identity underlie the chapter on the cinema of Glauber Rocha and Walter Salles. These political and cultural acts can be compared to the strange case of Sebastianism in Portugal, here studied across four centuries of adaptation and transformation. Anarchist, Communist and Catholic political projects are analysed in the context of the early twentieth century to complete this evaluation of the uses and effects of utopian visions in these countries."--, Provided by publisher

The Power of Utopia / Francisco Bethencourt -- Utopia and History: Camões' Os Lusíadas and Tavares' Uma Viagem à Índia / Helena Carvalhão Buescu -- The Unstable Status of Sebastianism / Francisco Bethencourt -- António Vieira's Utopian Kingdom of Christ on Earth / Patrícia Vieira -- Colonial Utopias: Between Indians and Missionaries / Andrea Daher -- Utopia in Brazilian Cinema: From Black God, White Devil to Foreign Land / Lucia Nagib -- Elephants All the Way Down: Utopia and Dystopia in Hélia Correia's Insânia and José Saramago's As Intermitências da morte / Maria Manuel Lisboa -- From Utopia to Prophecy: The Meanderings of the Heterotopia of Nation in African Literatures / Inocência Mata -- Utopia in Angolan and Mozambican Literature: Material Futures, Dialectical Dances / Maria Benedita Basto -- Utopia and Science in Portuguese Communism / José Neves -- The Utopian Unconscious: Literary Utopias and the Refashioning of Political Identities in 1920s Portugal / Luís Trindade -- Everyday forms of Utopia: Anarchism and Neo-Malthusianism in Portugal in the Early Twentieth Century / Diogo Duarte -- From Canudos to Contestado: Disputed Utopias / Nancy Priscilla Naro