Utopia in Portugal, Brazil and Lusophone African Countries

by Francisco Bethencourt (Editor)

Overview

This book studies the uses and effects of utopian visions on history, literature and culture of the Portuguese-speaking countries; topics include national identity, political strategies, missionary doctrine and literary figures from Camões to José Saramago.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783034318716
Publisher:	Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	07/31/2015
Series:	Reconfiguring Identities in the Portuguese-Speaking World , #4
Pages:	314
Product dimensions:	5.91(w) x 8.86(h) x (d)

About the Author

Francisco Bethencourt is Charles Boxer Professor of History at King’s College London. He is the author of Racisms: From the Crusades to the Twentieth Century (Princeton, 2013) and The Inquisition: A Global History, 1478-1834 (Cambridge, 2009). He co-edited Frontières religieuses à l’époque moderne (Paris, 2013), Racism and Ethnic Relations in the Portuguese-Speaking World (London, 2012), Portuguese Oceanic Expansion, 1400–1800 (Cambridge, 2007), Correspondence and Cultural Exchange in Europe, 1400–1700 (Cambridge, 2007), L’empire portugais face aux autres empires (Paris, 2007), and História da Expansão Portuguesa, 5 vols. (Lisbon, 1998–1999). He obtained his PhD at the European University Institute and his MA at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. He was director of the National Library of Portugal and of the Gulbenkian Foundation Cultural Centre in Paris.

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

«[...] this book is essential reading for anyone interested in the history and literature of the Portuguese-speaking world.»
(Malyn Newitt, e-JPH, Vol. 14, number 2, 2016)

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