Portuguese

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.

Folders

  • Brazilian LiteratureBrazilian literature in Portuguese, beginning with Machado de Assis while keeping slavery, Indigenous and African histories, region, language, gender, and modern plurality in view. (1)
  • Epic and EmpirePortuguese epic, voyage, empire, providence, and literary memory, beginning with The Lusiad and its classical-Christian horizon. (1)
  • Theatre and Social SatirePortuguese-language theatre, allegory, farce, song, and social satire, opening with Gil Vicente's complete four-play bilingual Bell edition. (1)

Pages

  • 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.