Utopias Of Otherness: Nationhood And Subjectivity In Portugal And Brazil Project Muse Upcc Books

The closely entwined histories of Portugal and Brazil remain key references for understanding developments-past and present-in either country. Accordingly, Fernando Arenas considers Portugal and Brazil in relation to one another in this exploration of changing definitions of nationhood, subjectivity, and utopias in both cultures. Examining the two nations' shared language and histories as well as their cultural, social, and political points of divergence, Arenas pursues these definitive changes through the realms of literature, intellectual thought, popular culture, and political discourse. Both Brazil and Portugal are subject to the economic, political, and cultural forces of postmodern globalization. Arenas analyzes responses to these trends in contemporary writers including Jos? Saramago, Caio Fernando Abreu, Maria Isabel Barreno, Verg?lio Ferreira, Clarice Lispector, and Maria Gabriela Llansol. Ultimately, Utopias of Otherness shows how these writers have redefined the concept of nationhood, not only through their investment in utopian or emancipatory causes such as Marxist revolution, women's liberation, or sexual revolution, but also by shifting their attention to alternative modes of conceiving the ethical and political realms. Fernando Arenas is associate professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies at the University of Minnesota. He is coeditor (with Susan Canty Quinlan) of Lusosex (Minnesota, 2002). Forges a new understanding of how these two Lusophone nations are connected. The closely entwined histories of Portugal and Brazil remain key references for understanding developments--past and present--in either country. Accordingly, Fernando Arenas considers Portugal and Brazil in relation to one another in this exploration of changing definitions of nationhood, subjectivity, and utopias in both cultures. Examining the two nations' shared language and histories as well as their cultural, social, and political points of divergence, Arenas pursues these definitive changes through the realms of literature, intellectual thought, popular culture, and political discourse. Both Brazil and Portugal are subject to the economic, political, and cultural forces of postmodern globalization. Arenas analyzes responses to these trends in contemporary writers including Jose Saramago, Caio Fernando Abreu, Maria Isabel Barreno, Vergilio Ferreira, Clarice Lispector, and Maria Gabriela Llansol. Ultimately, Utopias of Otherness shows how these writers have redefined the concept of nationhood, not only through their investment in utopian or emancipatory causes such as Marxist revolution, women's liberation, or sexual revolution but also by shifting their attention to alternative modes of conceiving the ethical and political realms.

The closely entwined histories of Portugal and Brazil remain key references for understanding developments -- past and present -- in either country. Accordingly, Fornando Arenas considers Portugal and Brazil in relation to one another in this exploration of changing definitions of nationhood subjectivity, and utopias in both cultures. Examining the two nations shared language and histories as well as their cultural social, and political points of divergence. Arenas pursues these definitive changes through the realms of literature intellectual thought, popular culture and political discourse. Both Brazil and Portugal are subject to the economic political, and cultural forces of postmodern globalization. Arenas analyzes responses to these trends in contemporary writers including Jose Saramago, Caio Fernando Abreu, Maria Isabel Barreno, Vergilio Ferreira, Clarice Lispector, and Maria Gabricla Llansol, Ultimately, Utopias of Otherness shows how these writers have redefined the concept of nationhood not only through their investment in utopian or emancipatory causes such as Marxist revolution, women's liberation or sexual revolution, but also by shifting their attention to alternative modes of conceiving the ethical and political realms.

Portugal : Ideas Of Empire And Nationhood -- Brazilian National Identity : Intellectual Debates And Changing Cultural Realities -- Subjectivities And Homoerotic Desire In Contemporary Brazilian Fiction : The Nation Of Caio Fernando Abreu -- Women's Difference In Contemporary Portuguese Fiction : The Case Of Maria Isabel Barreno -- Worlds In Transition And Utopias Of Otherness. Fernando Arenas. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 131-173) And Index. In Utopias of Otherness, Fernando Arenas considers Portugal and Brazil, both subject to the economic, political, and cultural forces of postmodern globalization. Arenas analyzes responses to these trends in contemporary writers including José Saramago, Caio Fernando Abreu, Maria Isabel Barreno, Vergílio Ferreira, Clarice Lispector, and Maria Gabriela Llansol, ultimately revealing how these writers have redefined the concept of nationhood. Introduction Portugal : ideas of empire and nationhood Brazilian national identity : intellectual debates and changing cultural realities Subjectivities and homoerotic desire in contemporary Brazilian fiction : the nation of Caio Fernando Abreu Women's difference in contemporary Portuguese fiction : the case of Maria Isabel Barreno Worlds in transition and utopias of otherness.