{"title":"Polyphonic Autofiction and Authorship in Tatiana Salem Levy’s A chave de casa","authors":"Nina Longinovic","doi":"10.3368/lbr.59.1.61","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/lbr.59.1.61","url":null,"abstract":"This article seeks to analyze Brazilian author Tatiana Salem Levy’s debut novel A chave de casa (2007) as a dialogical autofiction. I show how Salem Levy’s interventions in the genres of autobiographical and autofiction writing provide a fertile terrain for the reconstruction of female subjectivities in the aftermath of both personal and collective traumas. In opposition to the historical taxonomy established by Harold Bloom regarding the Oedipal need for the male author to outwrite his literary forefathers in a metaphoric parricide, Salem Levy’s interventions in self-writing show that Gilbert and Gubar’s concept of “anxiety of authorship” experienced by female authors (such as the protagonist of A chave de casa) can be overcome through intergenerational, maternal, and filial solidarity and co-writing, rather than through a revolt against patriarchal literary authority. This article will focus on the mother-daughter relationship in order to illustrate how A chave de casa breaks with the paradigms of autofiction.","PeriodicalId":52041,"journal":{"name":"Luso-Brazilian Review","volume":"59 1","pages":"61 - 82"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46402945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Kraay, Hendrik. Bahia’s Independence: Popular Politics and Patriotic Festival in Salvador, Brazil, 1824–1900. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2019.","authors":"Dale T. Graden","doi":"10.3368/lbr.59.1.E5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/lbr.59.1.E5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52041,"journal":{"name":"Luso-Brazilian Review","volume":"59 1","pages":"E5 - E6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44750862","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Defunto autor e clerks defunct","authors":"Daniel Lago Monteiro","doi":"10.3368/lbr.59.1.83","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/lbr.59.1.83","url":null,"abstract":"This article inquires the hypothesis that one of the boldest and radical innovations of The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas, the author defunct, originated from Machado de Assis’ reading of the English essayist Charles Lamb. In the autobiographical and fictional series Essays of Elia, Lamb invented a character and narrator who presents himself as a clerk defunct. The nominalization of defunct (as in defunct author) and the profiling of Elia as a dying and decaying figure, as well as a deceptive narrator who is constantly playing tricks on the readers, may have inspired Machado in the crafting of Brás Cubas. Moreover, Lamb played out his own death in two other moments of his work. Therefore, in this article, I intend to unravel the threads that link Elia to Brás Cubas with an aim of understanding why Machado excluded Lamb from the “definite” prologue to The Posthumous Memoirs.","PeriodicalId":52041,"journal":{"name":"Luso-Brazilian Review","volume":"59 1","pages":"83 - 108"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44150790","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hochman, Gilberto. The Sanitation of Brazil. Translated by Diane Grosklaus Whitty. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2016.","authors":"T. Meade","doi":"10.3368/lbr.59.1.E1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/lbr.59.1.E1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52041,"journal":{"name":"Luso-Brazilian Review","volume":"59 1","pages":"E1 - E2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42935568","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ilhas, ilhas, ilhas","authors":"Paulo de Medeiros","doi":"10.3368/lbr.59.1.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/lbr.59.1.5","url":null,"abstract":"Raul Brandão’s As ilhas desconhecidas has always been regarded as a great example of travel literature. This essay attempts a dialectical analysis of the text that highlights its social critique, which remains as urgent in the present. Brandão’s perspective, in all its subjectivity, lack of familiarity, anxiety, and even some feeling of repulsion, never becomes that of a consumer or collector of exotic, strange or alienating, images. While today’s tourists are tempted with the promise to have immediate access, without making any effort, to the “secrets” of nature and the intimate lives of the population, Raul Brandão never spared his readers the necessity to assume an ethical confrontation with a reality that forced itself upon them in all of its contrasts and contradictions to which no one could remain impassive. As Brandão shows us, the specter of the other is also always our own.","PeriodicalId":52041,"journal":{"name":"Luso-Brazilian Review","volume":"59 1","pages":"5 - 21"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45420701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Street Capoeira and the Memorialization of Slavery in Rio de Janeiro","authors":"Matthias Röhrig Assunção","doi":"10.3368/lbr.59.1.143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/lbr.59.1.143","url":null,"abstract":"Capoeira is a combat game developed by enslaved Africans and Brazilian-born Blacks on the streets and squares of port cities in late colonial Brazil. From the 1930s onwards, modernized styles such as Regional and Angola developed, which moved practice to the closed spaces of schools (“academies”). This paper looks at the re-emergence of street performances (rodas) in Rio de Janeiro, in particular those of the “Rio Street Roda Connection” (2012–2016), amid the urban renovation of the central areas for the mega-events of 2014 and 2016. Some of these street rodas take place on locations that are highly significant for the history of slavery, such as the Valongo Wharf. The article discusses to what extent playing capoeira can be understood as a re-enactment of the history of slavery, and how the street rodas and accompanying events contribute to the memorialization of slavery and the resistance of the enslaved. It also analyzes to what extent disputes over identity, ownership and urban territories contributed to the break-up of the Connection.","PeriodicalId":52041,"journal":{"name":"Luso-Brazilian Review","volume":"59 1","pages":"143 - 180"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48601221","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pernambuco and Bahia’s Musical “War”","authors":"Falina Enriquez","doi":"10.3368/lbr.59.1.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/lbr.59.1.22","url":null,"abstract":"This article draws on ethnographic research on contemporary music in Recife, Brazil, to show how people in the northeastern state of Pernambuco are redefining regional identity through engaging in a musically mediated rivalry with the neighboring state of Bahia. While this rivalry is longstanding, during the 2000s and 2010s, it was reconfigured in relation to the state government’s efforts to brand Pernambuco as a multicultural place. Accordingly, I analyze how middle-class participants at events hosted by a government institution that I call the Fundação Cultural de Pernambuco, disparage two Bahian dance genres: axé music and swingueira (a.k.a. pagode baiano), in ways that intertwine racial and class-based stereotypes. I therefore argue that the stigmatization of northeastern people is not exclusive to the hegemonic southeast, but it is also (re)produced within the northeast. This case thus demonstrates how place-based branding enables individuals and institutions to reproduce and justify social inequality.","PeriodicalId":52041,"journal":{"name":"Luso-Brazilian Review","volume":"10 16","pages":"22 - 60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41260952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Globalização, técnica e modernidade no Rio de Janeiro das primeiras três décadas do século XX","authors":"Pedro Lopes de Almeida","doi":"10.3368/lbr.59.1.109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/lbr.59.1.109","url":null,"abstract":"While a considerable amount of scholarship in the field of historiography has been devoted to the transformation of the urban landscape of Rio de Janeiro in the early 20th century and literary studies have largely focused on the representations of the city by major authors of this period, until now research on the literary treatment of the changing city by foreigners remains scarce. The purpose of this paper is to introduce and problematize how travelers writing in English reflected the new realities of Rio de Janeiro during the First Republic by relating a corpus of selected travelogues to the literary works of Brazilian authors Machado de Assis, João do Rio, and Lima Barreto. By focusing on the concepts of speed, acceleration, globalization, and modernity, I propose to unpack the underlying tensions that accompany the far-reaching changes that occurred as a consequence of the urban reformation promoted by Mayor Francisco Pereira Passos. To do so, following a critical review of the historical context leading to the scenes of urban transformation, this text reflects on three central leitmotifs of travel writing in the city, and analyses them against selected canonical literary texts: the introduction of foreign technology (especially urban railroads) and its impacts; the links between urban transformation and the reproduction of images of the city (with an emphasis on cinema); and the topic of accidents and progress as a problematic idea. The conclusions of the present essay point towards a deep mutual implication between the foreign gazes and the development of the imaginary of a cosmopolitan city, suggesting a correlation between social change, literary representations, and the creation of a corpus of travel writing centered on the city of Rio. Uma baleia, uma telenovela, um alaúde, um trem? Uma arara? Mas era ao mesmo tempo bela e banguela a Guanabara. Caetano Veloso, “Estrangeiro,” 1989","PeriodicalId":52041,"journal":{"name":"Luso-Brazilian Review","volume":"59 1","pages":"109 - 142"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48367927","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Konta, Ryohei. The Housing Movement and the Urban Poor in São Paulo: Agency, Structure, and Institutionalization. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2020.","authors":"P. Cantisano","doi":"10.3368/lbr.59.1.E3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/lbr.59.1.E3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52041,"journal":{"name":"Luso-Brazilian Review","volume":"59 1","pages":"E3 - E4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42549874","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"José Saramago na literatura de cordel brasileira","authors":"Carlos Nogueira","doi":"10.3368/lbr.58.2.34","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/lbr.58.2.34","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, I aim to understand the cordel leaflet titled José Saramago: vida e morte (n.d.) by the Brazilian writer Medeiros Braga as literature and as political action. Based on Medeiros Braga’s ideas about the Portuguese writer, I propose an interpretation of socialism by both Saramago and the Brazilian author. I argue in favor of what Saramago said about himself: he did not see himself as a writer who was a communist, but as a communist who was a writer. At the same time, I show that the formula “writer who was a communist” fits Medeiros Braga.","PeriodicalId":52041,"journal":{"name":"Luso-Brazilian Review","volume":"58 1","pages":"34 - 53"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46003919","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}