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Reading with Clarice Lispectorby Helene Cixous; Verena Andermatt Conley
University of Minnesota Press 1990; US$ 58.50The foremost French feminist literary critic pays homage to the premiere Latin American woman prose writer of this century. more...
Lusosexby Susan Canty Quinlan; Fernando Arenas
University of Minnesota Press 2002; US$ 70.50Challenging static notions of sexualities within the Portuguese-speaking world, these essays expand our understanding of the multiplicity of differences and marginalized subjectivities that fall under the intersections of sexuality, gender, and race. more...
Voices From an Empireby Russell G. Hamilton
University of Minnesota Press 1975; US$ 75.00The literature of the various regions of Lusophone Africa has received relatively little critical attention compared with that which has been focused on the work of writers in the English- and French- speaking countries of Africa. With the profound change more...
A Little Larger Than the Entire Universeby Fernando Pessoa; Richard Zenith
Penguin Group Inc. 2006; US$ 13.99The poetry of "the greatest twentieth century writer you have never heard of " ( Los Angeles Times ) Writing obsessively in French, English, and Portuguese, Fernando Pessoa left a prodigious body of work, much of it under "heteronyms"-fully fleshed alter egos with startlingly different styles and points of view. Offering a unique sampling of all his most famous voices, this collection features poems that have never before been translated alongside many originally composed in English. In addition to such major works as "Maritime Ode of Campos" and his Goethe-inspired Faust , written in blank verse, there are several stunning poems that have only come to light in the last five years. Selected and translated by leading Pessoa scholar Richard... more...
White Negritudeby A. Isfahani-Hammond
Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 85.00This book looks at the relationship of literary criticism to the social construction of race in Brazil. Isfahani-Hammond considers Gilberto Freyre's model of master/slave synthesis and examines what "multiculturalism" means after the turn of the century. more...
Selected Sonnetsby Luís de Camões; William Baer
University of Chicago Press 2008; US$ 17.00The most important writer in Portuguese history and one of the preeminent European poets of the early modern era, Luís de Camões (1524–80) has been ranked as a sonneteer on par with Petrarch, Dante, and Shakespeare. Championed by such influential English poets as William Blake and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and admired in America by Edgar Allan Poe, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Herman Melville, Camões was renowned for his intensely personal sonnets and equally intense adventurous life. He was banished for dueling and brawling at court, lost an eye fighting the Moors in North Africa, was shipwrecked off the coast of India, jailed in Goa, and exiled in Mozambique. Throughout these personal trials, he advanced ... more...
Why This Worldby Benjamin Moser
Oxford University Press, USA 2009; US$ 24.00That rare person who looked like Marlene Dietrich and wrote like Virginia Woolf, Clarice Lispector is one of the most popular but least understood of Latin American writers. Now, after years of research on three continents, drawing on previously unknown manuscripts and dozens of interviews, Benjamin Moser demonstrates how Lispector's art was directly connected to her turbulent life. Born amidst the horrors of post-World War I Ukraine, Clarice's beauty, genius, and eccentricity intrigued Brazil virtually from her adolescence. Why This World tells how this precocious girl, through long exile abroad and difficult personal struggles, matured into a great writer, and asserts, for the first time, the deep roots in the Jewish mystical tradition... more...
The Alphabet in the Parkby Adelia Prado
Wesleyan University Press 2011; US$ 9.99Poetry that eloquently concentrates on the spiritual and physical lives of women. more...
Selected Poetry, 1937-1990by Joao Cabral de Melo Neto; Djelal Kadir
Wesleyan University Press 2011; US$ 13.99Brings together a representative selection of the work of one of Brazil's most respected poets, including many poems published in English for the first time. more...
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