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A postcolonial Ulysses in the Lusophone world /

"'Portuguese Ulyssism' (Gilberto Freyre's concept referring to Luís Vaz de Camões's epic and the Portuguese maritime voyage in the Renaissance) is an axial cultural construct, which this work partially absorbs but also departs from, to assert mutating literary experiences re...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Silva e Sousa, Lisandra D., 1978- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Peter Lang, [2020]
Subjects:
Odysseus, > King of Ithaca (Mythological character) > In literature.
Portuguese literature > History and criticism.
Brazilian literature > History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature) > Portugal.
Modernism (Literature) > Brazil.
Brazilian literature.
Modernism (Literature)
Portuguese literature.
Brazil.
Portugal.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • A mute hero called Ulysses and the nation in modernity
  • Fernando Pessoa's heteronyms: a nationhood of invisible translators
  • Brazilian modernists, Portuguese modernists, and their spaces of interaction
  • The anthropophagic agenda of modernism in the work of Haroldo and Augusto de Campos: a translational Ulyssism in Finismundo, a última viagem/Finismundo, The last voyage and Galáxias/Galaxie
  • Conclusion.