{"title":"O silêncio como resistência em Ponciá Vicêncio de Conceição Evaristo","authors":"Luciana Namorato","doi":"10.3368/lbr.57.2.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/lbr.57.2.4","url":null,"abstract":"This essay examines the use of silence as a symbolic, thematic, and stylistic tool employed by Afro-Brazilian writer Conceição Evaristo in Ponciá Vicêncio (2003), within the larger context of the literature written by black women. Focusing on Ponciá, a sculptor who is evasive and emotionally absent, the novel presents narrative gaps and ruptures that foreground silence. Building on theoretical works that examine the role of silence in subaltern discourse, this essay demonstrates how Evaristo transforms silence into an empowering tool that highlights the systematic erasure of black female subjectivity from Brazilian history and literature. In Ponciá Vicêncio, Evaristo makes use of silence to denounce the adverse living conditions of Afro-Brazilians, more specifically their daily, albeit often invisible, reality of exploitation, injustice, and resistance.","PeriodicalId":52041,"journal":{"name":"Luso-Brazilian Review","volume":"57 1","pages":"4 - 31"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49047692","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":"Ida e volta","authors":"Rui Gonçalves Miranda","doi":"10.3368/lbr.58.1.179","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/lbr.58.1.179","url":null,"abstract":"This article addresses the morpholinguistic and stylistic devices underwriting Freyre’s writing as the notion of “lusotropicalism” is advanced, mainly in the travelogue Aventura e rotina (1953) and the accompanying volume Um brasileiro em terras portuguesas (1953). With a view to questioning the foundations as well as to reexamining the conditions of possibility of a number of national and transnational commonplaces, policies and discourses which, knowingly or unknowingly, are inspired or shaped by Freyre’s “lusotropicalism,” it will break down the use of metaphors, morpholinguistic tropes, and the simile carrying Freyre’s self-fashioning as a modern Luís de Camões. Freyre’s observations on the then Portuguese colonies are of importance only insofar as they help build up his own projection of a “mundo português” and a lusotropical “family” led by Brazil, as he disingenuously acquiesces that his journey (sponsored by the Portuguese Estado Novo) acquires a “significado quase político.”","PeriodicalId":52041,"journal":{"name":"Luso-Brazilian Review","volume":"58 1","pages":"179 - 204"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69621850","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":"How Brazilian are Quicumbis?","authors":"J. Dewulf","doi":"10.3368/lbr.58.1.62","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/lbr.58.1.62","url":null,"abstract":"My goal in this article is to show how the emphasis on mestiçagem (ethnic/racial/cultural mixture) in the formation of Brazilian popular culture may have obscured our understanding of performance traditions deemed to be “typically Brazilian.” I focus on the quicumbi and begin the article with an analysis of the earliest references to this performance, followed by theories on its origin and meaning. I then contribute to this discussion by adding references to festive traditions in Angola. By showing that certain aspects of the performance traditionally assumed to have been shaped by mestiçagem, such as the “African Indians,” may in actuality have been African in nature, I challenge the interpretation of the quicumbi as an essentially Brazilian tradition. I conclude with a reflection on the importance of the findings presented in this article for our general understanding of cultural identity formation in Brazil.","PeriodicalId":52041,"journal":{"name":"Luso-Brazilian Review","volume":"58 1","pages":"62 - 86"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69621963","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":"Depois da Revolução Federalista","authors":"Gunter Axt","doi":"10.3368/lbr.58.1.87","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/lbr.58.1.87","url":null,"abstract":"This article aims to evaluate how the Rio Grande do Sul Republican Party (PRR) and the state government, led by Julio de Castilhos and Antonio Augusto Borges de Medeiros, reacted during the last five years of the nineteenth century to the pacification of the 1895 Federalist Revolution. Special attention is paid to the Party’s relationship with the Brazilian Army and Uruguayans, the mobilization of militiamen at the border, the treatment of those opposed to the amnesty, and smuggling. These themes will be evaluated based on aspects of the personal trajectory of Colonel João Francisco Pereira de Souza, who was given the strategic task of taking care of public security in Livramento and Quaraí, stationed at the barracks in Cati, where he had about 800 well-armed and well-trained men. Conflicts with military commanders from the border, especially General Carlos Maria da Silva Telles, led him and his family to oppose Castilhos.","PeriodicalId":52041,"journal":{"name":"Luso-Brazilian Review","volume":"48 1","pages":"87 - 121"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69621976","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":"Ruídos raciais","authors":"Francisco Quinteiro Pires","doi":"10.3368/lbr.57.2.32","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/lbr.57.2.32","url":null,"abstract":"In the early minutes of O som ao redor (Neighboring Sounds, 2012), by director Kleber Mendonça Filho, photographs marked by extradiegetic sounds represent an aesthetic choice that describes how the experience of slavery in colonial Brazil actualizes its effects in a contemporary neighborhood of Northeastern Brazil. This article investigates how O som ao redor engages with Gilberto Freyre’s theories by exposing racialization processes and the impression that violence resulting from racism is inevitable. Through acousmatization, a resource that destabilizes the temporal and spatial limits of diegetic action, this film intervenes in a polarized debate around racism and makes it possible to criticize the hegemonic reading of miscegenation as the visual representation of racial harmony in Brazil. With a sound design that invokes the genre of terror and proposes listening as a racializing act, O som ao redor challenges the ocularcentric myth of racial democracy and the ideology of exclusivist classism.","PeriodicalId":52041,"journal":{"name":"Luso-Brazilian Review","volume":"57 1","pages":"32 - 55"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69622106","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":"Lino, Patrícia. Manoel de Barros e a poesia cínica: o círculo dos três movimentos com vista ao homem-árvore. Belo Horizonte: Relicário, 2019. 144 pp.","authors":"Ricardo Vasconcelos","doi":"10.3368/lbr.58.1.E15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/lbr.58.1.E15","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52041,"journal":{"name":"Luso-Brazilian Review","volume":"58 1","pages":"E15 - E17"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69622024","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":"Fora, pum!","authors":"Rhian Atkin","doi":"10.3368/lbr.57.2.97","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3368/lbr.57.2.97","url":null,"abstract":"The single issue of Portugal Futurista is a landmark in Portuguese Modernism. It opens a transnational dialogue with the European literary and artistic avant-garde, engaging not only with Futurism but also with various other ‘isms’ of the early twentieth century. This article presents a close reading of a number of the texts and images printed in the magazine to examine the ways in which the contributors sought to make vital the written word. The article argues that this vitality culminates in the competitive framing of the manifestoes by José de Almada Negreiros and Álvaro de Campos (Fernando Pessoa) that bring notions of masculinity into dialogue with Portugal’s history and sense of nationhood. Through its exploration of the relationship between word, image, and the senses, the article investigates the radical qualities of Portugal Futurista and the interrogations and performances of gender and identity that are revealed in the magazine.","PeriodicalId":52041,"journal":{"name":"Luso-Brazilian Review","volume":"57 1","pages":"97 - 116"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69622161","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}