{"title":"Unbearable Fadistas: António Variações and Fado as Queer Praxis","authors":"Daniel da Silva","doi":"10.21471/JLS.V3I1.213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21471/JLS.V3I1.213","url":null,"abstract":"Antonio Variacoes’s first single, Povo que lavas no rio/Estou alem (1982), offers a radical version of Amalia Rodrigues’s fado “Povo que lavas no rio” (1962). This article considers Variacoes as fadista in order to think fado as queer praxis. Though Variacoes's debut release was a commercial success, his turn as fadista provoked critical derision for what, I argue, is a trans formation of the genre’s gendered codes and practices. Variacoes's queer masculinity gives body and voice to the transgressive sexuality enmeshed within gendered and fetishized repertoires of fado that are most recognizable in the myths and voices of the genre's divas. This article locates Variacoes within a fado genealogy, from Maria Severa to Amalia Rodrigues, of performers who have similarly been unbearable in body and voice. The purpose of this is to draw attention to fado's affective dispersions of sex and reveal how the genre has coalesced in relation to queer tactics and people throughout its history.","PeriodicalId":52257,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Lusophone Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48295784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Para além do colonizado e do subalterno: masculinidade num poema de Francisco José Tenreiro","authors":"Mário César Lugarinho","doi":"10.21471/JLS.V3I1.208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21471/JLS.V3I1.208","url":null,"abstract":"This essay examines the formation of masculine identities in the colonial context of Portuguese-speaking African literatures. It does so by considering the dialectic of the colonizer/colonized in relation to hegemonic and non-hegemonic masculinities and the emergence of the \"new man\" in the Estado Novo and African national liberation movements.","PeriodicalId":52257,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Lusophone Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49325239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bodies of War: Disabilities and Heroism in the First World War","authors":"R. Atkin","doi":"10.21471/JLS.V3I1.207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21471/JLS.V3I1.207","url":null,"abstract":"In the present article, I analyze discourses of masculinity and the male body associated with Portugal’s involvement in World War I. I examine these from three perspectives: the national military body; medical and political discussion of disabled bodies; and soldiers’ stories about their own experiences. I draw on the popular press, published memoirs, and government and institutional documents to examine the fluid and shifting accounts of masculinity, disability, and heroism during and just after the war. I argue that representations of heroism in this context are directly linked to the male body; furthermore, they are both variable and constructed to serve specific ideological or personal purposes. More broadly, I conclude that the body in war and disabled by war comes to stand for Portugal’s experiences as a nation at the Western Front, and in the process makes invisible the individual bodies of men who fought for their country.","PeriodicalId":52257,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Lusophone Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43389972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Masculinidade em questão: lei, corpo e desejo em \"Dão-lalão\"","authors":"Luiz Fernando Valente","doi":"10.21471/JLS.V3I1.211","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21471/JLS.V3I1.211","url":null,"abstract":"In the present essay, I examine eroticism in \"Dao-lalao,\" by Brazilian fictionist Joao Guimaraes Rosa (1908-1967). Calling into question Benedito Nunes’s argument that the dialectics of love in Guimaraes Rosa's oeuvre points to a sense of harmony and totality, I view the erotic element in Guimaraes Rosa’s work as a form of transgression. Focusing on the body in “Dao-lalao,” I revisit Guimaraes Rosa’s skepticism regarding reason as the primary vehicle for understanding reality. Whereas Nunes relies on Plato, the Neoplatonists, and the mystic traditions of hermeticism and alchemy, I turn to the philosophy of Georges Bataille (1897-1962). Finally, I propose that in addition to asking probing questions about eroticism as an expression of what Bataille called non-savoir , \"Dao-lalao\" invites its readers to reconsider race and gender relations within a Brazilian cultural and historical context.","PeriodicalId":52257,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Lusophone Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41894436","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Theorizing Masculinity in the Context of Luso-Afro-Brazilian Culture","authors":"J. Lehnen, Rex P. Nielson","doi":"10.21471/JLS.V3I1.206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21471/JLS.V3I1.206","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":52257,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Lusophone Studies","volume":"3 1","pages":"1-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48852937","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Angola: (Re-)Imaginar o Nascimento de uma Nação no Cinema Militante","authors":"M. Piçarra","doi":"10.21471/JLS.V3I1.177","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21471/JLS.V3I1.177","url":null,"abstract":"Este artigo procura contribuir para o estudo sobre como, durante o Estado Novo, em Angola, os filmes foram usados, por via da militância politica, como instrumento ao servico da luta de libertacao. Apos contextualizar o uso do cinema pelos movimentos independentistas das ex-colonias portuguesas, questiono se a actividade cineclubista em Angola contribuiu para o surgimento de um cinema de causas e se o facto da luta pela independencia de Angola ter sido mostrada em reportagens internacionais filmadas foi determinante para o uso do filme como uma arma, ainda antes da influencia do manifesto “Towards a Third Cinema” (1969), de Solanas e Getino. Particularizo o caso do uso do cinema pelo MPLA e analiso, num estudo de caso central para a historia do cinema feito em Africa, os filmes “angolanos” de Sarah Maldoror que adaptam cinematograficamente os contos de Luandino Vieira sobre militância e encarceramento colonial.","PeriodicalId":52257,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Lusophone Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45136824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Braga-Pinto, César. A violência das letras: amizade e inimizade na literatura brasileira (1888-1940). U Estadual do Rio de Janeiro, 2018.","authors":"César Braga-Pinto","doi":"10.21471/JLS.V3I1.215","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21471/JLS.V3I1.215","url":null,"abstract":"Apesar do titulo, A violencia das letras: amizade e inimizade na literatura brasileira, aliado aos prolegomenos, que podem sugerir, ao primeiro contato, uma selecao de textos nos quais uma violencia explicita seria protagonista, nao ha na alma deste livro um sentimento amargo e aspero.","PeriodicalId":52257,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Lusophone Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44514632","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A gente não mergulha no mundo do outro impunemente: uma conversa com Eliane Brum","authors":"Nicola Gavioli","doi":"10.21471/JLS.V2I1.175","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21471/JLS.V2I1.175","url":null,"abstract":"O trabalho jornalistico de Eliane Brum e considerado hoje—por periodistas, academicos e por um vasto publico leitor—uma referencia para acompanhar o debate sobre direitos humanos no Brasil. Ao longo dos ultimos trinta anos, Brum tem publicado um corpus coerente e instigante de reportagens, colunas e cronicas em jornais (Zero Hora, El Pais, The Guardian) e revistas (Revista Epoca) de grande difusao e prestigio.","PeriodicalId":52257,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Lusophone Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48939865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Aquatic Woman: The Role of Water and the Feminine Divine in Mia Couto’s Terra Sonâmbula","authors":"M. Mitchell","doi":"10.21471/JLS.V2I2.45","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21471/JLS.V2I2.45","url":null,"abstract":"Mia Couto's 1992 novel, Terra Sonâmbula , is known for its use of fantastic realism to convey the horrors of the Mozambican civil war and their effects. The supernatural invades the daily experience of the novel’s characters, and these move from the known world into a frequently aqueous and spiritual one. In this essay, I examine Couto's use of water, the supernatural, and the feminine and link these to African religious and cosmological origins. I see Couto's use of the black feminine aqueous divine as an alternate form of national history that gives voice to those who often go unheard in the chaos of war, particularly women and children.","PeriodicalId":52257,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Lusophone Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48726087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bishop-Sánchez, Kathryn. Creating Carmen Miranda: Race, Camp, and Transnational Stardom. Vanderbilt UP, 2016.","authors":"A. Santos","doi":"10.21471/JLS.V2I2.197","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21471/JLS.V2I2.197","url":null,"abstract":"In this volume, Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez has accomplished the challenging but rewarding task of analyzing one of the twentieth century’s most popular culture icons. This is a real feat, given Carmen Miranda’s place in the popular imaginary. Bishop-Sanchez tackles this task brilliantly through the lens of Miranda as a cultural sign, providing a rigorous study of how the latter has served as a constructed and embodied media icon.","PeriodicalId":52257,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Lusophone Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44463985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}