Transnational Portuguese Studies offers a radical rethinking of the
role played by the concepts of 'nationhood' and 'the nation' in the
epistemologies that underpin Portuguese Studies as an academic
discipline. Portuguese Studies offers a particularly rich and
enlightening challenge to methodological nationalism in Modern
Languages, not least because the teaching of Portuguese has always
extended beyond the study of the single western European country
from which the language takes its name. However, this has rarely
been analysed with explicit, or critical, reference to the
'transnational turn' in Arts and Humanities. This volume of essays
from leading scholars in Portugal, Brazil, the USA and the UK,
explores how the histories, cultures and ideas constituted in and
through Portuguese language resist borders and produce encounters,
from the manoeuvres of 15th century 'globalization' and cartography
to present-day mega events such as the Rio Olympics. The result is
a timely counter-narrative to the workings of linguistic and
cultural nationalism, demonstrating how texts, paintings and
photobooks, musical forms, political ideas, cinematic
representations, gender identities, digital communications and
lexical forms, may travel, translate and embody transcultural
contact in ways which only become readable through the optics of
transnationalism. Contributors: Ana Margarida Dias Martins, Anna M.
Klobucka, Christopher Larkosh, Claire Williams, Claudia Pazos
Alonso, Edward King, Ellen W. Sapega, Fernando Arenas, Hilary Owen,
Jose Lingna Nafafe, Kimberly DaCosta Holton, Maria Luisa Coelho,
Paulo de Medeiros, Sara Ramos Pinto, Sheila Moura Hue, Simon Park,
Susana Afonso, Tatiana Heise, Toby Green, Tori Holmes, Vivien Kogut
Lessa de Sa and Zoltan Biedermann.
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