Portuguese-speaking World Research Articles

Traduzir (ou não) João Paulo Borges Coelho. Tradução e recepção da tradução da obra ficcional fora do espaço de língua portuguesa

Este artigo propõe-se fazer o ponto de situação sobre as traduções publicadas da obra ficcional de João Paulo Borges Coelho (que, de momento, são três, todas para o italiano), situando a obra ficcional de tal autor nos estudos críticos de recepção sobre autores africanos de língua portuguesa, dentro e fora do espaço de língua portuguesa. Analisa-se brevemente o panorama desses estudos, efetuando um apelo para que certas instâncias dos Estudos de Tradução sejam incluídas na análise crítica da recepção e circulação literária, abrangendo também as traduções para outras línguas, os seus paratextos e contextos e a sua recepção nos respetivos sistemas literários. Analisa-se depois mais de perto o caso das três traduções para italiano, focando a agenda dos tradutores e dos editores, os textos, os paratextos e o contexto, tentando instituir um modelo de trabalho para eventuais futuros estudos deste género.

Musicalidades da língua portuguesa: introdução a uma sonoridade fonética e acústica da lusofonia

A lusofonia engloba o espaço onde a língua portuguesa é falada e entendida como a língua mãe da comunicação entre os que nele habitam. Trata-se de uma paisagem linguística que contempla sonoridades tão distintas quanto a diversidade dos países que compõem o espaço lusófono. A pluralidade de sotaques e de géneros musicais, produto colonial de um tempo que não ficou apenas na história, reflete uma panóplia de possibilidades auditivas na tentativa de sintetizar uma mediapaisagem sonora da lusofonia. Este espaço de contrastes, tanto do ouvido como da representação dos países de expressão em língua portuguesa nas instâncias lusófonas, é o principal objeto de reflexão deste artigo, num recorte acústico das sonoridades da língua e da música de países de expressão lusófona que têm vindo, ao longo dos tempos e de forma particular, a criar particularidades fonéticas que distinguem os falantes do Português num mundo lusófono de quase 300 milhões de falantes.

Theorizing Masculinity in the Context of Luso-Afro-Brazilian Culture

This special issue of the Journal of Lusophone Studies explores the multifaceted ways that masculinities are performed and embodied throughout the Portuguese-speaking world. The articles presented here interrogate the concept of masculinity to understand better how the arts engage with and participate in rethinking masculinities. While this volume focuses specifically on expressions of masculinity within the Lusophone world, these articles also broadly engage with questions related to masculinities studies by revealing how, within the Portuguese-speaking world, writers are questioning, destabilizing, and in some cases reifying the concept of masculinity.

Subject Pronoun Expression in Santomean Portuguese

<p class="p1">Studies on Subject Pronoun Expression (SPE) in the Portuguese-speaking world have shown a distinction between European Portuguese, which is a Null Subject Language (NSL) with high rates of null subjects, and Brazilian Portuguese, which is controversially treated as a partial-NSL and exhibits a considerably lower rate of null subjects. No specific studies have been conducted on the matter on Santomean Portuguese, but we know that both null and overt subject personal pronouns exist in this variety of Portuguese. The objective of this paper is to investigate variation in SPE in Santomean Portuguese, and to situate this variety of Portuguese in comparison with other varieties. Results of the variationist analyses show that Santomean Portuguese patterns more like European Portuguese in its high rate of use of null subject. Interestingly, and contrary to previous studies, Santomeans with a higher level of education disfavor the use of null subject, which I relate to a sensitivity to grammatical ideology and the favoring of the overt subject in more formal situations. Most of the results regarding the linguistic predictors, which are stronger than the social predictors, relate Santomean Portuguese to other varieties of Portuguese, and to Spanish.

National Representation in the Age of Transnational Film: A Lusophone Story

The concept of Transnational Cinema is usually defined by its opposition to the idea of National Cinema, which enjoys a long tradition in the field of Film Studies. However, the representation of Angola found in the films made under the collaboration of Angolan director Zézé Gamboa and Portuguese producer Fernando Vendrell, O herói [The Hero] (2004) and O grande kilapy [The Great Kilapy] (2012), paint a much more nuanced picture of the relationship between national and transnational cinemas, marked by historical, material and affective ties that cannot be dissociated from the legacies of Portuguese colonialism. Drawing from the productive relation between national film and postcolonial condition inherent to these films, this article shows how the work by Gamboa and Vendrell challenges established notions in the study of film echoing within and beyond the Portuguese-speaking world.

Utopia, Heterotopia, Dystopia – Water in Portuguese and Brazilian comics

The article tends to analyze several comics from the Portuguese-speaking world regarding the symbolic functions of water within the stories. Therefore, the text picks on the ideas of the Brazilian philosopher Vilém Flusser about mutual interference of nature and culture, combining it with the theory of Foucault’s heterotopias and Deleuze’s and Guattari’s ideas on smooth and striated spaces. The question on the different functions of water is raised, depending on its appearance as rain or ocean. Furthermore, it will be discussed whether a general approach to the topic is intelligible or if differences between Brazilian and European tendencies can be detected. To compare the results of the analysis with comic-stories from other countries, British and French comic-authors will be referred to, whenever necessary.

Writing from other margins. Difference, exception, and translation in the portuguese-speaking world: counterpoints between literary representations and critical paradigms

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-7968.2017v37n1p65Enquanto enquadramento conceptual para estudar as chamadas literaturas pós-coloniais, a tradução constitui um paradigma crítico complexo que abre inúmeros caminhos teóricos a partir de onde ler e situar as representações literárias sob uma perspetiva global. No que concerne ao que pode ser definido como literaturas africanas eurófonas (Zabus, 2007), o conceito de tradução oferece a possibilidade de problematizar diversas questões críticas, em particular as que dizem respeito à “diferença cultural” (Bhabha, 1994) e, por isso, à “materialização [textual] do outro” (Ahmed, 2000). Neste sentido, a tradução torna-se um conceito operativo não apenas para uma hermenêutica textual, mas também para uma reflexão epistemológica mais ampla, permitindo discutir os paradigmas que caracterizam a receção crítica do romance africano e, portanto, o próprio campo da crítica literária africana. Através da análise de autores e textos provenientes das chamadas literaturas africanas lusófonas, o presente artigo visa traçar um percurso crítico que destaque as possibilidades teóricas que o conceito de tradução oferece, de modo a que as representações literárias possam ser abordadas como “experiências epistemológicas” cruciais (García Canclini, 2012, 50), a partir das quais se pode ler e compreender as alterações, os desafios e as transformações do nosso tempo.

UTOPIA, HETEROTOPIA, DYSTOPIA – WATER IN PORTUGUESE AND BRAZILIAN COMICS

The article tends to analyze several comics from the Portuguese-speaking world regarding the symbolic functions of water within the stories. Therefore, the text picks on the ideas of the Brazilian philosopher Vilem Flusser about mutual interference of nature and culture, combining it with the theory of Foucault’s heterotopias and Deleuze’s and Guattari’s ideas on smooth and striated spaces. The question on the different functions of water is raised, depending on its appearance as rain or ocean. Furthermore, it will be discussed whether a general approach to the topic is intelligible or if differences between Brazilian and European tendencies can be detected. To compare the results of the analysis with comic-stories from other countries, British and French comic-authors will be referred to, whenever necessary.

Perspectivas contemporâneas sobre o mundo lusófono

Em um contexto de intensificação das relações comerciais e culturais entre países no âmbito internacional e do incremento na formação de blocos determinados por diversa gama de afinidades e interesses comuns, os vínculos entre os países de língua portuguesa têm despertado um crescente interesse por parte das pesquisas acadêmicas no âmbito das Ciências Humanas e Sociais (Antropologia, História, Sociologia, Ciência Política e Relações Internacionais). Os artigos selecionados no dossiê "Perspectivas contemporâneas sobre o mundo lusófono" são contribuições originais teóricas e/ou análises de dados empíricos sobre os seguintes eixos temáticos: laicidade/secularização e territórios religiosos em Portugal; tradição e modernidade em Moçambique; cultura, internacionalização e a Capoeira; Educação em Cabo Verde e as políticas educacionais globais; movimento social e resistência estudantil no Brasil e Portugal; e por último, a formação brasileira e releituras a partir do Barroco.

Owen, Hilary, and Anna M. Klobucka, eds. &lt;em&gt;Gender, Empire, and Postcolony: Luso-Afro-Brazilian Intersections&lt;/em&gt;. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Print.

This carefully edited volume brings together a collection of original essays that through diverse approaches to a broad scope of materials explores cultural and literary representations of the Portuguese expansion and former empire, and postcolonialism in the Portuguese-speaking world. The volume functions as a whole because of the carefully constructed interconnections of gender, race, politics, class and imperialism, among other themes, that are woven throughout the studies, and that are enriched by varying positionalities that include different Portuguese-speaking geographic regions and theoretical points of reference.

Interwoven migration narratives: identity and social representations in the Lusophone world

ABSTRACTThis article provides an exploratory analysis of the life narratives of migrants in the Portuguese-speaking world. By interweaving the life experiences of eight participants in three thematic clusters – ‘shared past’, language and sense of community – we propose a critique of the deep-seated idea of the Lusophone space as a community constructed by the harmonious conviviality of different countries and people. Drawing on contributions from cultural studies, social psychology, anthropology and sociology, we first aim to give voice to the human subjects who embark on migrations and then to understand how the engendered process of identity construction is framed by their social world, simultaneously reframing it. Thus, we aim at shedding light on the ways in which aspects of the political discourses on Lusophony are used (and are instrumental) to the migrants’ identity narrative (re)construction.

Between images and texts: manuals as a praxis of knowledge

We investigate a series of writing genres from the Enlightenment in Portugal, especially between 1720 and 1800, comprehending them as manuals of knowledge, and we highlight some of the meanings of the images in these writings that were widely circulated in the Portuguese-speaking world.

Racism and Ethnic Relations in the Portuguese-Speaking World, ed. Francisco Bethencourt and Adrian Pearce

Racism and Ethnic Relations in the Portuguese-Speaking World, ed. Francisco Bethencourt and Adrian Pearce

Lusofonia, a (R)Evolução: Discourses of Atlantic Roots and Routes in «Luso World Music»

The development of a «Luso world music», a transnational musical movement that brings together popular and traditional musics of the Portuguese-speaking world and departing mainly from the city of Lisbon.

Lusophone Studies: A Cumulative Area Bibliography, 2013–15

Portuguese Studies vol. 31 no. 2 (2015), 250–64© Modern Humanities Research Association 2015 Lusophone Studies: A Cumulative Area Bibliography, 2013–15 Emilce Rees Visiting Research Associate at the Department of Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies (SPLAS) at King’s College, London The following pages list publications and theses relating to the Portuguesespeaking world which were published from 2013 to early 2015 in English. Some items previously omitted have been included here. Relevant online academic search resources have been used, namely the Copac® library catalogue, WorldCat® and the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Database and for consultation, the British Library EThOS, for ALL theses produced by UK Higher Education. The Copac® library catalogue contains the merged online catalogues of major University, Specialist, and National Libraries in the UK and Ireland, including the British Library. ABIL (Association of Portuguese and Irish Lusitanists) list members are also thanked for their contribution. WorldCat® is a global catalogue with more than 1.4 billion items available in libraries from around the world. I. Publications 1.1 Anthropology and Folklore 1.2 Arts, Architecture and Music 1.3 Bibliographies, Directories and Guides 1.4 Environment 1.5 History, Politics and Social Science 1.6 Language 1.7 Literature 1.8 Religion II. Theses 2.1 African topics 2.2 Asian Topics 2.3 Brazilian Topics 2.4 Portuguese Topics Lusophone Studies 251 I. Publications 1.1 Anthropology and Folklore BATARDA FERNANDES, António Pedro (2014), Natural Processes in the Degradation of Open-Air Rock-Art Sites: An Urgency Intervention Scale to Inform Conservation: The Case of the Côa Valley World Heritage Site, Portugal (Oxford: Archaeopress) xv, 311 pages. FORTE, Maximilian Christian (2013), Who is an Indian?: Race, Place, and the Politics of Indigeneity in the Americas (Toronto: University of Toronto Press) xii, 254 pages. KOPENAWA, Davi Albert Bruce (2013), The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press) xvi, 622 pages. SHWALB, David W., Barbara J. SHWALB & Michael E. LAMB (eds) (2013), Fathers in Cultural Context (New York: Routledge) xxii, 419 pages. 1.2 Arts, Architecture and Music ADZ, King (2013), The Stuff You Can’t Bottle: Advertising for the Global Youth Market (London: Thames & Hudson) 342 pages. ALONSO, Natalia (2013), Dance and Modernist Architecture: The Case of Lina Bo Bardi’s SESC Pompeía (London: London Metropolitan University) 120 pages BIRKENSTEIN, Jeff, Anna FROULA & Karen RANDELL (2013), The Cinema of Terry Gilliam: It’s a Mad World (New York: Columbia University Press ) 256 pages. BRANDELLERO, Sara (ed) (2013), Brazilian Road Movie Journeys of (Self) Discovery (Cardiff: University of Wales Press) 288 pages. BURNETT, Mark Thornton (2013), Shakespeare and World Cinema (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press) xv, 272 pages. CAMPBELL, Patricia Shehan & Trevor WIGGINS (eds) (2013), The Oxford Handbook of Children’s Musical Cultures (New York: Oxford University Press) xvii, 636 pages. CLEVELAND, Kimberly (2013), Black Art in Brazil: Expressions of Identity (Gainesville: University Press of Florida) xii, 173 pages, [24] pages of plates. COUTINHO, Bárbara (2014), MUDE: Design and Fashion Museum, Francisco Capelo Collection, Lisbon (London: Scala Publications) 128 pages. FOSTER, David William (2013), Latin American Documentary Filmmaking: Major Works (Tucson: University of Arizona Press) xiv, 215 pages. GRAY, John (2014), Afro-Brazilian Music: A Bibliographic Guide (Nyack, New York: African Diaspora Press) xiv, 585 pages. HERTZMAN, Marc A. (2013), Making Samba: A New History of Race and Music in Brazil (Durham, NC & London: Duke University Press) xvii, 364 pages, [6] pages of plates. MASCARENHAS CASSIANO NEVES, Pedro & Ana Luísa DA CUNHA DE ALVIM (2014), Houses and Palaces in Lisbon: Coats of Arms (Lisbon: Scribe) 287 pages. PACE, Richard & Brian P. HINOTE (2013), Amazon Town TV: An Audience Ethnography in Gurupá, Brazil (Austin: University of Texas Press) 224 pages. Lusophone Studies 252 PARÉS, Luis Nicolau (2013), The Formation of Candomblé: Vodun History and Ritual in Brazil (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press) 424 pages. RÊGO, Cacilda & Marcus BRASILEIRO (eds) (2014), Migration in Lusophone Cinema (New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan) viii, 232 pages. REGO, Paula & Adam FOULDS (writer of added commentary) (2014), Paula Rego: The Last King of Portugal and Other Stories (London: Marlborough Fine Art) 36 pages. RENSHAW, Amanda (2013), Art & Place: Site-Specific Art of...

Bethencourt, Francisco, and Adrian Pearce (ed). Racism and Ethnic Relations in the Portuguese-Speaking World. Proceedings of the British Academy number 179. New York: Oxford UP, 2012. Tables. Graphs. 300 pp.

Bethencourt, Francisco, and Adrian Pearce (ed). Racism and Ethnic Relations in the Portuguese-Speaking World. Proceedings of the British Academy number 179. New York: Oxford UP, 2012. Tables. Graphs. 300 pp.

Mocambique e o mundo da lingua portuguesa: Que relacao, que futuro?

Does the so-called Lusophone or Portuguese-speaking world refer to a community that is completely in harmony and engaged in strengthening fraternity and cooperation ties among its members? Or are we rather in the presence of an entity clad in new postcolonial garments that ultimately conceal hegemonic agendas? I submit that the Portuguese language does not yet enjoy full citizenship rights in the thousands upon thousands of African homes where the other national languages spoken (24 in the case of Mozambique) have a real existence but are consistently denied citizenship. Without the promotion of national or African languages, Portuguese loses its cultural legitimacy. It will remain a language with a merely political validity. Rather than labeling African countries in an abstract common language universe, I believe we must highlight the singularity of each country.

Postcolonial Theory Meets the Portuguese-Speaking World: An Interview with Robert J. C. Young

In this interview Robert Young talks about both the current state of affairs and the future of postcolonial theory, while also addressing its potentiality and validity for understanding the diverse postcolonial realities of the Portuguese-speaking world.

FRANCISCO BETHENCOURT and ADRIAN J. PEARCE, editors. Racism and Ethnic Relations in the Portuguese-Speaking World.

FRANCISCO BETHENCOURT and ADRIAN J. PEARCE, editors. Racism and Ethnic Relations in the Portuguese-Speaking World.

Lusophone Studies: A Cumulative Area Bibliography, 2011–13

Portuguese Studies vol. 29 no. 2 (2013), 277–95© Modern Humanities Research Association 2013 Lusophone Studies: A Cumulative Area Bibliography, 2011–13 Emilce Rees King’s College, London The following pages list publications and theses relating to the Portuguesespeaking world which were published from 2011 to early to mid 2013 in English. Some items previously omitted have been included here. Relevant online academic search resources have been used, namely the Copac® library catalogue, WorldCat® and the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Database and for consultation, the British Library EThOS, for all theses produced by UK Higher Education. The Copac® library catalogue contains the merged online catalogues of major University, Specialist, and National Libraries in the UK and Ireland, including the British Library. ABIL (Association of British and Irish Lusitanists) list members are also thanked for their contribution. WorldCat® is a global catalogue of library collections of more than 72,000 libraries, with over 290,500,000 bibliographic records. I. Publications 1.1 Anthropology and Folklore 1.2 Arts, Architecture and Music 1.3 Bibliographies, Directories and Guides 1.4 Environment 1.5 History, Politics and Social Science 1.6 Language 1.7 Literature 1.8 Religion II. Theses 2.1 African topics 2.2 Asian Topics 2.3 Brazilian Topics 2.4 Portuguese Topics Lusophone Studies: A Bibliography, 2011–13 278 I. Publications 1.1 Anthropology and Folklore ADAMS, Cristina, Rui S. S. MURRIETA, Walter A. NEVES and Mark HARRIS (eds), Amazon Peasant Societies in a Changing Environment: Political Ecology, Invisibility and Modernity in the Rainforest. New York: Springer, 2010. 382 pp. SAPIEZINSKAS, Aline, and Rebecca HUDSON (transl.), Cultural Heritage in Brazil: An Anthropological Perspective and Local Points of View. Dartford: Xlibris. 144 pp. UZENDOSKI, Michael, and Edith Felicia CALAPUCHA-TAPUY, The Ecology of the Spoken Word: Amazonian Storytelling and Shamanism among the Napo Runa. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2012. 245 pp. VIRTANEN, Pirjo Kristiina, Indigenous Youth in Brazilian Amazonia: Changing Lived Worlds. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 238 pp. 1.2 Arts, Architecture and Music AVELAR, Idelber, and Christopher DUNN (eds), Brazilian Popular Music and Citizenship. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011. 364 pp. BRITO, Ronaldo, Guilherme BUENO and Sonia SALCEDO (eds), Art in Brazil 1950–2011. Catalog of an exhibition held October 12, 2011 — January 15, 2012, Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels. Brussels: Europalia International & Ludion, 2011. 197 pp. BLAUFUKS, Daniel, Works On Memory: Selected Writings and Images. Cardiff: Ffotogallery, 2012. 147 pp. BROWN, Lisa Beljuli, Body Parts on Planet Slum: Women and Telenovelas in Brazil. New York: Anthem Press, 2011. 156 pp. BUENO, Eva Paulino, Amácio Mazzaropi in the Film and Culture of Brazil: After Cinema Novo. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 196 pp. BURRI René, Arthur RÜEGG and Clarice LISPECTOR (eds), Rene Burri. Brasilia: Photographs, 1960–1993. Zürich: Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag, 2011. 224 pp. CASIMIRO, Tânia Manuel, Portuguese Faience in England and Ireland. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2011. 200 pp. CONDE, Maite, Consuming Visions: Cinema, Writing, and Modernity in Rio de Janeiro. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012. 227 pp. DISERENS, Corinne, Joanna LEHAN and Maria SCHINDELEGGER, Appro­ priated Landscapes: Contemporary African Photography from the Walther Collection. Göttingen: Steidl, 2011. 406 pp. DIX, Steffen, and Jerónimo PIZARRO (eds), Portuguese Modernisms: Multiple Perspectives on Literature and the Visual Arts. London: Legenda, 2011. 388 pp. GARRAMUÑO, Florencia, and Anna Kazumi STAHL (transl.), Primitive Modern­ ities: Tango, Samba, and Nation. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2011. 232 pp. Lusophone Studies: A Bibliography, 2011–13 279 HOLTEN, Bo, Cantigas D’amigo: 5 Love Lyrics of Medieval Portugal Set For Equal Voices A Cappella 2010. Copenhagen: Wilhelm Hansen, 2011. 1 score, 48 pp. JODIDIO, Philip. Niemeyer. London: Taschen, 2012. 96 pp. MILHAZES, Beatriz, Catalogue exhibition held 20 Jan. — 15 May 2012, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen and Basel: 16 Feb. — 13 May 2012; Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, CAM Centre de Arte Moderna, Lisbon. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2012. German, English and Portuguese text. 69 pp. MOEHN, Frederick, Contemporary Carioca: Technologies of Mixing in a Brazilian Music Scene. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012. 289 pp. O’BYRNE, Patricia, Gabrielle CARTY and Niamh THORNTON, Transcultural Encounters amongst Women: Redrawing Boundaries in Hispanic and Lusophone Art, Literature and Film. Newcastle...