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Utopia in Portugal, Brazil and Lusophone African Countries (Paperback, New edition)
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Utopia in Portugal, Brazil and Lusophone African Countries (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Reconfiguring Identities in the Portuguese-speaking World, 4
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This book studies the history, literature and culture of
Portuguese-speaking countries through the lens of utopia. The role
of utopia in Portuguese literature is the object of fresh analyses
ranging from Camoes to Goncalo M. Tavares, and Antonio Vieira to
Jose Saramago. The chapters on Angola and Mozambique show how
national identity received a major boost through utopian literature
- Pepetela is the anchor in the former case, while dance is used as
a crucial metaphor to reveal the tension between the colonial and
postcolonial gaze in the latter case. The visions of paradise in
Tupi tradition and missionary doctrine inform the approach to
Brazil, developed by the study of the utopian dimension of the
revolts of Canudos and Contestado. Regional contrasts and the quest
for Brazilian national identity underlie the chapter on the cinema
of Glauber Rocha and Walter Salles. These political and cultural
acts can be compared to the strange case of Sebastianism in
Portugal, here studied across four centuries of adaptation and
transformation. Anarchist, Communist and Catholic political
projects are analysed in the context of the early twentieth century
to complete this evaluation of the uses and effects of utopian
visions in these countries.
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