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Portuguese-language literature across Portugal, Brazil, Africa, Asia, and their diasporas—opened with Camões, Vicente, and Machado without mistaking three works for a finished canon.
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Texts
GlossaryA reader glossary for Portuguese-language literary forms, periods, regions, multilingual relations, and the two historical editions currently on the shelf.Introduction to Portuguese-Language LiteratureA source-critical introduction to Portuguese-language literature as a plural Atlantic, African, Asian, Brazilian, and European field rather than a Portugal-only national canon.Reader's Guide to Portuguese-Language LiteratureA close-reading guide to Gil Vicente, Camões, and Machado de Assis, joining performance, empire, satire, translation, Brazilian Portuguese, and the language's many literary countries.
Brazilian Literature1 page
Brazilian literature in Portuguese, beginning with Machado de Assis while keeping slavery, Indigenous and African histories, region, language, gender, and modern plurality in view.
Epic and Empire1 page
Portuguese epic, voyage, empire, providence, and literary memory, beginning with The Lusiad and its classical-Christian horizon.
Theatre and Social Satire1 page
Portuguese-language theatre, allegory, farce, song, and social satire, opening with Gil Vicente's complete four-play bilingual Bell edition.