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Books by Mark Sabine

Research paper thumbnail of Sabine, Mark. José Saramago: History, Utopia, and the Necessity of Error

Forum for Modern Language Studies, 2018

Although best known internationally for his 'allegorical' novels such as Blindness (1995), in his... more Although best known internationally for his 'allegorical' novels such as Blindness (1995), in his native Portugal, José Saramago remains most acclaimed for his earlier, richly poetic 'historical' novels. This study of five of these works focuses on José Saramago's engagement with political and social philosophy from across Europe, so as to track his commitment to libertarian socialism in an era of neo-liberal economics and disillusion. Though deeply pessimistic about human being's capacity to deliver social justice, Saramago never abandons the progressive cause. Making use of insights from Gramsci, Walter Benjamin, and Marcuse, among others, this study argues that Saramago sought to engage his reader with a skeptical but vibrant utopianism: teaching us to abandon absolutes and embrace error as inevitable, and, indeed, even necessary. From this post-humanist perspective, humanity becomes understood as ongoing project rather than essence, challenging individuals to strive for self-knowledge and reinvention.

Articles by Mark Sabine

Research paper thumbnail of Nós Matámos O Cão-Tinhoso: A Emasculação De África e a Crise Do Patriarca Negro

Via Atlântica, 2010

ESTA LEITURA ENFOCA A DENÚNCIA HONWANIANA À SISTEMÁTICA DESVIRILIZAÇÃO, PELO PODER COLONIAL, DO H... more ESTA LEITURA ENFOCA A DENÚNCIA HONWANIANA À SISTEMÁTICA DESVIRILIZAÇÃO, PELO PODER COLONIAL, DO HOMEM NEGRO. A HUMILHAÇÃO E BRUTALIZAÇÃO QUE HONWANA REPRESENTA REFLECTEM A IMBRICAÇÃO, NO LUSOTROPICALISMO, DE HIERARQUIAS OPRESSIVAS DE RAÇA E DE GÊNERO, E A NECESSÁRIA SUPRESSÃO DO PATRIARCA NEGRO PARA SUSTER O MITO DA “CIVILIZAÇÃO” PORTUGUESA A SER “SEMEADA” NA “BARBÁRIE” AFRICANA. A ASSOCIAÇÃO DE MASCULINIDADE HEGEMÓNICA COM UM PROSSEGUIMENTO VIOLENTO DA AUTORIEDADE COLONIAL VAI MARGINALIZANDO OS VALORES QUE O TEXTO ATRIBUI À MASCULINIDADE INDÍGENA, ASSIM NECESSITANDO A CONSCIÊNCIA INSUBMISSA E A INSURREIÇÃO ARMADA.

Research paper thumbnail of As Des-Reterritorializações De Cuiabá Na Obra De Silva Freire

Línguas&Letras, 2017

O objetivo do presente artigo 1 é analisar como Cuiabá e a cuiabania integram temática e retorica... more O objetivo do presente artigo 1 é analisar como Cuiabá e a cuiabania integram temática e retoricamente textos em prosa e verso de Silva Freire, construindo uma espacialidade que é tanto simbólica quanto política, o que implica entender como o poeta cartografou não só o espaço da cidade, mas também, em alguma medida, o direito de pertença à mesma. Assim, em lugar de ler o regional como um valor em si ou como uma instância transcendida com vistas a um estético absoluto, a perspectiva que aqui se adota é a de que Silva Freire constrói uma dinâmica desterritorializadora e reterritorializadora (DELEUZE; GUATTARI, 1997; HAESBAERT, 2011) da cidade em seus escritos. Desse modo, Freire mapeia movediços limites entre os distintos grupos que passam a ocupar o espaço da cidade ao longo do século XX, mas também invisibiliza as comunidades que habitavam o território local antes da colonização. Ao recriar poeticamente uma Cuiabá, o autor assume distintas posições discursivas nas intrincadas negociações identitárias que se dão na cidade nesse período, redefinindo, a cada novo texto, a quem de direito são a manga e o caju que a terra dá. Palavras-chave: Silva Freire; regionalismo; Cuiabá; des-reterritorialização.

Research paper thumbnail of Lovers, not fighters: Left politics and brandos costumes in Capitães de Abril

Journal of Romance Studies, 2016

The popularity of Maria de Medeiros's Capitães de Abril [April Captains] (2000) has made it a sig... more The popularity of Maria de Medeiros's Capitães de Abril [April Captains] (2000) has made it a significant reference point in perceptions and post-memory of the Portuguese revolution. This essay argues that the film presents the 25 April 1974 coup as a restitution of social justice predicated on the long-established notion of Portuguese brandos costumes [gentle customs]. By foregrounding both the April captains' commitment to non-violent regime change, and their attitudes of humility, empathy and good humour, the film opposes them to an authoritarian regime whose arrogant, stubborn and brutal defenders repeatedly traduce 'traditional' national values. The endemic nature of brandos costumes is meanwhile implied by representing army conscripts and the common people as ill-suited to military engagement, but strongly disposed to 'feminine' values of love, solidarity, and compassion. Ultimately, Capitães' appropriation of this national myth revises the gender politics of commemorations of the April Revolution, but reinforces paternalistic conceptions of Portuguese social organization.

Research paper thumbnail of O Cerrado e o trabalho rural na poesia de Silva Freire: uma leitura ecocrítica

O Eixo e a Roda: Revista de Literatura Brasileira, 2018

Resumo: O espaço rural é o ponto de convergência de duas bases materiais que condicionam a vida e... more Resumo: O espaço rural é o ponto de convergência de duas bases materiais que condicionam a vida em sociedade: os imperativos da natureza e o sistema socioeconômico do trabalho no campo. Tais forças sobredeterminam-se num movimento dialético, que a poesia de Silva Freire captou no contexto do Cerrado mato-grossense. Sob a perspectiva ecocrítica da Ecologia Social, o presente artigo visa compreender a interação entre natureza e cultura representada na poesia freireana, em que o Cerrado e o homem do campo transformam-se mutuamente por meio do trabalho na/da terra. Para tanto, analisam-se aqui os poemas “Cerrado/raízes”, “Carvoeiro/vegetal” e “Canavial”, do livro Águas de visitação (2002), enfocando os processos pelos quais natureza e homem se reduzem à condição de matéria-prima e mão de obra a serem exploradas.Palavras-chave: Cerrado; trabalho rural; Ecologia Social.: Rural space is the convergence point of two material bases that define life in society: the imperatives of nature and t...

Research paper thumbnail of ‘“Pedaços de corpos envoltos no coral”: Cânone literário, identidade e expressão "queer" em "Salsugem" de Al Berto

Colóquio: Letras, Jan 1, 2010

... Canone literário, identidade e expressao "queer" em "Salsugem&... more ... Canone literário, identidade e expressao "queer" em "Salsugem" de Al Berto. Autores:Mark Sabine; Localización: Colóquio: Letras, ISSN 0010-1451, Nº. 173, 2010 , págs. 47-63. Fundación Dialnet. Acceso de usuarios registrados. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Re-Incarnating the Poet: Pessoa, the Body and Society In Jose Saramago's O Ano Da Morte De Ricardo Reis

Journal of Romance Studies, Jan 1, 2002

Research paper thumbnail of 'Once but No Longer the Prow of Europe': National Identity and Portuguese Destiny In José Saramago's The Stone Raft

Research paper thumbnail of Rebuilding the Angolan body politic: global and local projections of identity and protest in 'O Herói’

Journal of African Cinemas, 2012

This article uses a reading of Zézé Gamboa's award-winning 2004 feature as a basis for an explora... more This article uses a reading of Zézé Gamboa's award-winning 2004 feature as a basis for an exploration of post-conflict Angolan screen culture and of its impact both at home and internationally. It considers how O Herói’s depiction of a war-torn nation, and of the impediments to its reconstruction, negotiates between a socially-engaged film-making practice, informed by local tradition and the tenets of ‘Third Cinema’, and the demands of a globalised cinema market. The film achieves this compromise by deploying allegorical and symbolic tropes, familiar from the literature, cinema, and political discourse of the era of Angolan liberation (notably, the concept of a socialist ‘new man’), to complicate a superficially optimistic story of post-conflict rehabilitation, and to insinuate a critique of the authoritarian practices and neo-liberal policies of the MPLA government. Further to this, the article identifies strategies through which the film advertises the gulf between its fiction of individual triumph over adversity and, on the other hand, the grimmer reality of Angola’s post-conflict malaise. Finally, it considers how the film’s construction of an encrypted allegory also prompts the question of whether or not film production that depends upon the funding and agendas of international capital and neo-colonial powers can ever foster the resurgence of a genuinely ‘popular’ and progressive culture in post-conflict Angola.

Research paper thumbnail of _Nós Matámos o Cão-Tinhoso_: A emasculação de África e a crise do patriarca negro

Esta leitura enfoca a denúncia honwaniana à sistemática desvirilização, pelo poder colonial, do h... more Esta leitura enfoca a denúncia honwaniana à sistemática desvirilização, pelo poder colonial, do homem negro. Referindo-se a um modelo performativo de gênero que implica uma pluralidade de masculinidades, o artigo afirma que a humilhação e brutalização que Honwana nos representa reflectem a imbricação, no lusotropicalismo, de hierarquias opressivas de raça e de gênero, e a necessária supressão do patriarca negro para suster o mito da <<civilização>> portugesa a ser <> na <> africana. A associação de masculinidade hegemónica com um prosseguimento violento da autoriedade colonial vai marginalizando os valores que o texto atribui à masculinidade indígena, assim necessitando a consciência insubmissa e a insurreição armada.

This reading addresses Honwana’s critique of colonialism’s systematic emasculation of the black man. Identifying the performative regulation of a co-existing plurality of masculinities, the article argues that Honwana’s depictions of humiliation and violence indicate lusotropicalism’s imbrication of oppressive hierarchies of race and gender, and the need to efface the indigenous patriarch so as to sustain the myth of Portuguese ‘civilization’’s propagation in a ‘savage’ Africa. Meanwhile, hegemonic masculinity’s association with the brutal assertion of colonial authority marginalizes values attributed to an indigenous paradigm of masculinity. This makes insubordination necessary, and armed rebellion inevitable.

Research paper thumbnail of Sexual Difference and Gender Dysphoria in Eça de Queirós's O Primo Basílio and O Crime do Padre Amaro

The thesis novels of Eça de Queirós have long been acknowledged as a high-water mark in nineteent... more The thesis novels of Eça de Queirós have long been acknowledged as a high-water mark in nineteenth-century Portuguese prose fiction. Equally, however, they are a crucial source of evidence for the dissemination in Portugal of new ideas about the human constitution, and about the social roles and interactions of men and women in an increasingly industrialized, urban and literate society. This essay's subject is Eça's ambivalent engagement with contemporary arguments for women's emancipation, a project that had a complex and uneasy relationship with the Portuguese liberal program for national 'regeneration' that the novelist espoused. As Ana Paula Ferreira has emphasized, Eça's depiction of middle-class women's sexual transgressions reflects both a contemporary conception of the nation as a male-focused and male-ordered organism, and widespread anxiety regarding the future of this organism. His first two novels depict female adultery as intrinsic to a vicious cycle of social ills that, by imperilling individual women, also endangers the nation, by compromising women's fulfilment of a patriotic duty of conceiving and rearing the new 1

Book Chapters by Mark Sabine

Research paper thumbnail of Introduction : Saramago and the politics of literary quotation

SABINE, Mark ; MARTINS, Adriana Alves de Paula - Introduction : Saramago and the politics of lite... more SABINE, Mark ; MARTINS, Adriana Alves de Paula - Introduction : Saramago and the politics of literary quotation. In In dialogue with Saramago : essays in comparative literature. Manchester : Manchester Spanish & Portuguese Studies, 2006. ISBN 0-9539968-8-3. p. 1-24

Research paper thumbnail of Killing (and) Nostalgia: Testimony and the Image of Empire in Margarida Cardoso’s A Costa dos Murmúrios

Research paper thumbnail of Colonial Masculinities under a Woman's Gaze in Margarida Cardoso's _A Costa dos Murmurios_

This study reads Cardoso's 2004 adaptation of Lidia Jorge's 1988 novel as a study of white women'... more This study reads Cardoso's 2004 adaptation of Lidia Jorge's 1988 novel as a study of white women's agency in the colonial order of late Estado Novo-era Portugal, by focusing on how the film positions male subjects and male bodies as objects of both its female narrator-protagonist's gaze and of the viewer's gaze. Responding to feminist and psychoanalytical theories of the cinematic gaze, this article argues that the protagonist's powerful - yet not inherently or aberrantly 'masculine' - female gaze becomes the matrix within which teh film creates parodies of the iconography of white male heroism, parodies that overturn the conventional representations of European colonial agency and power, illustrate the clumsy and violent operations of racial and gener hierarchies underpinning a faltering imperial dominion, and contradict the Estado Novo's Lusotropicalist apologia for colonial rule as a consensual civilizing project. (Adapted from the editors' Introduction to _Gender, Empire, and Postcolony_, p.12).

Research paper thumbnail of Saramago's ‘Other’ Pessoas and ‘Pessoan’ Others: Heteronymic Creation and the Ethics of Alterity

Volume abstract: Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) is Portugal’s most celebrated poet of the twentieth... more Volume abstract:
Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) is Portugal’s most celebrated poet of the twentieth century, who wrote under the guise of dozens of literary personalities, or heteronyms. As well as his poetry, however, his work is marked by a constantly inventive and innovative engagement with authors and literary traditions from an astonishing variety of sources, placing him firmly in the worldwide literary canon. The present volume brings together a number of experts at the forefront of Pessoa studies internationally, with chapters examining his literary relations with Italy, Spain, France, England and Portugal, as well as his contextualisation in relation to major philosophers such as Kant and Nietzsche. It features essays examining his work from a range of perspectives to complement the multi-faceted nature of Pessoa himself (psychoanalytical, philosophical, political and artistic), and it includes consideration of his prose masterpiece The Book of Disquiet, as well as of various aspects of his poetic oeuvre.

David G. Frier is Senior Lecturer in Portuguese at the University of Leeds.

With the contributions:

David G. Frier — Introduction: Pessoa/Pessoas?
Richard Zenith — Nietzsche and the Super-Pessoa
Mattia Riccardi — António Mora and German Philosophy: Between Kant and Nietzsche
Mariana Gray de Castro — Pessoa, Shakespeare, Hamlet and the Heteronyms: Studies in Neurosis
Rui Gonçalves Miranda — Masters and Spectres: Pessoa’s Haunts
Rhian Atkin — Going Nowhere in Voyage autour de ma chambre and ‘Viagem Nunca Feita’
Pedro Eiras — ‘Ode Triunfal’ with a Breakdown at the End
David G. Frier — Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Unamuno, Bernardo Soares and the Literary Gaze
Paulo de Medeiros — Representing Pessoa
Mark Sabine — Saramago’s ‘Other’ Pessoas and ‘Pessoan’ Others: Heteronymic Creation and the Ethics of Alterity
Liz Wren-Owens — Tabucchi’s Pessoa: A Legacy Repaid?

Research paper thumbnail of Um olhar consumidor: O antropofagismo "luso-queer" nos “Truques De Ilusionismo" de Al Berto

Aboud, S., Lopes, D., Mello, B., Garcia, W. Imagem e …, Jan 1, 2004

Research paper thumbnail of The Art of Seeing Queerly

Reading Literature in Portuguese

Research paper thumbnail of Introduction : Saramago and the politics of literary quotation

Research paper thumbnail of Introduction: Pessoa’s Bodies

Research paper thumbnail of ‘Ever-repositioned mysteries’: Homosexuality and Heteronymity in ‘Antinous’

Research paper thumbnail of Sabine, Mark. José Saramago: History, Utopia, and the Necessity of Error

Forum for Modern Language Studies, 2018

Although best known internationally for his 'allegorical' novels such as Blindness (1995), in his... more Although best known internationally for his 'allegorical' novels such as Blindness (1995), in his native Portugal, José Saramago remains most acclaimed for his earlier, richly poetic 'historical' novels. This study of five of these works focuses on José Saramago's engagement with political and social philosophy from across Europe, so as to track his commitment to libertarian socialism in an era of neo-liberal economics and disillusion. Though deeply pessimistic about human being's capacity to deliver social justice, Saramago never abandons the progressive cause. Making use of insights from Gramsci, Walter Benjamin, and Marcuse, among others, this study argues that Saramago sought to engage his reader with a skeptical but vibrant utopianism: teaching us to abandon absolutes and embrace error as inevitable, and, indeed, even necessary. From this post-humanist perspective, humanity becomes understood as ongoing project rather than essence, challenging individuals to strive for self-knowledge and reinvention.

Research paper thumbnail of Nós Matámos O Cão-Tinhoso: A Emasculação De África e a Crise Do Patriarca Negro

Via Atlântica, 2010

ESTA LEITURA ENFOCA A DENÚNCIA HONWANIANA À SISTEMÁTICA DESVIRILIZAÇÃO, PELO PODER COLONIAL, DO H... more ESTA LEITURA ENFOCA A DENÚNCIA HONWANIANA À SISTEMÁTICA DESVIRILIZAÇÃO, PELO PODER COLONIAL, DO HOMEM NEGRO. A HUMILHAÇÃO E BRUTALIZAÇÃO QUE HONWANA REPRESENTA REFLECTEM A IMBRICAÇÃO, NO LUSOTROPICALISMO, DE HIERARQUIAS OPRESSIVAS DE RAÇA E DE GÊNERO, E A NECESSÁRIA SUPRESSÃO DO PATRIARCA NEGRO PARA SUSTER O MITO DA “CIVILIZAÇÃO” PORTUGUESA A SER “SEMEADA” NA “BARBÁRIE” AFRICANA. A ASSOCIAÇÃO DE MASCULINIDADE HEGEMÓNICA COM UM PROSSEGUIMENTO VIOLENTO DA AUTORIEDADE COLONIAL VAI MARGINALIZANDO OS VALORES QUE O TEXTO ATRIBUI À MASCULINIDADE INDÍGENA, ASSIM NECESSITANDO A CONSCIÊNCIA INSUBMISSA E A INSURREIÇÃO ARMADA.

Research paper thumbnail of As Des-Reterritorializações De Cuiabá Na Obra De Silva Freire

Línguas&Letras, 2017

O objetivo do presente artigo 1 é analisar como Cuiabá e a cuiabania integram temática e retorica... more O objetivo do presente artigo 1 é analisar como Cuiabá e a cuiabania integram temática e retoricamente textos em prosa e verso de Silva Freire, construindo uma espacialidade que é tanto simbólica quanto política, o que implica entender como o poeta cartografou não só o espaço da cidade, mas também, em alguma medida, o direito de pertença à mesma. Assim, em lugar de ler o regional como um valor em si ou como uma instância transcendida com vistas a um estético absoluto, a perspectiva que aqui se adota é a de que Silva Freire constrói uma dinâmica desterritorializadora e reterritorializadora (DELEUZE; GUATTARI, 1997; HAESBAERT, 2011) da cidade em seus escritos. Desse modo, Freire mapeia movediços limites entre os distintos grupos que passam a ocupar o espaço da cidade ao longo do século XX, mas também invisibiliza as comunidades que habitavam o território local antes da colonização. Ao recriar poeticamente uma Cuiabá, o autor assume distintas posições discursivas nas intrincadas negociações identitárias que se dão na cidade nesse período, redefinindo, a cada novo texto, a quem de direito são a manga e o caju que a terra dá. Palavras-chave: Silva Freire; regionalismo; Cuiabá; des-reterritorialização.

Research paper thumbnail of Lovers, not fighters: Left politics and brandos costumes in Capitães de Abril

Journal of Romance Studies, 2016

The popularity of Maria de Medeiros's Capitães de Abril [April Captains] (2000) has made it a sig... more The popularity of Maria de Medeiros's Capitães de Abril [April Captains] (2000) has made it a significant reference point in perceptions and post-memory of the Portuguese revolution. This essay argues that the film presents the 25 April 1974 coup as a restitution of social justice predicated on the long-established notion of Portuguese brandos costumes [gentle customs]. By foregrounding both the April captains' commitment to non-violent regime change, and their attitudes of humility, empathy and good humour, the film opposes them to an authoritarian regime whose arrogant, stubborn and brutal defenders repeatedly traduce 'traditional' national values. The endemic nature of brandos costumes is meanwhile implied by representing army conscripts and the common people as ill-suited to military engagement, but strongly disposed to 'feminine' values of love, solidarity, and compassion. Ultimately, Capitães' appropriation of this national myth revises the gender politics of commemorations of the April Revolution, but reinforces paternalistic conceptions of Portuguese social organization.

Research paper thumbnail of O Cerrado e o trabalho rural na poesia de Silva Freire: uma leitura ecocrítica

O Eixo e a Roda: Revista de Literatura Brasileira, 2018

Resumo: O espaço rural é o ponto de convergência de duas bases materiais que condicionam a vida e... more Resumo: O espaço rural é o ponto de convergência de duas bases materiais que condicionam a vida em sociedade: os imperativos da natureza e o sistema socioeconômico do trabalho no campo. Tais forças sobredeterminam-se num movimento dialético, que a poesia de Silva Freire captou no contexto do Cerrado mato-grossense. Sob a perspectiva ecocrítica da Ecologia Social, o presente artigo visa compreender a interação entre natureza e cultura representada na poesia freireana, em que o Cerrado e o homem do campo transformam-se mutuamente por meio do trabalho na/da terra. Para tanto, analisam-se aqui os poemas “Cerrado/raízes”, “Carvoeiro/vegetal” e “Canavial”, do livro Águas de visitação (2002), enfocando os processos pelos quais natureza e homem se reduzem à condição de matéria-prima e mão de obra a serem exploradas.Palavras-chave: Cerrado; trabalho rural; Ecologia Social.: Rural space is the convergence point of two material bases that define life in society: the imperatives of nature and t...

Research paper thumbnail of ‘“Pedaços de corpos envoltos no coral”: Cânone literário, identidade e expressão "queer" em "Salsugem" de Al Berto

Colóquio: Letras, Jan 1, 2010

... Canone literário, identidade e expressao &quot;queer&quot; em &quot;Salsugem&... more ... Canone literário, identidade e expressao &quot;queer&quot; em &quot;Salsugem&quot; de Al Berto. Autores:Mark Sabine; Localización: Colóquio: Letras, ISSN 0010-1451, Nº. 173, 2010 , págs. 47-63. Fundación Dialnet. Acceso de usuarios registrados. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Re-Incarnating the Poet: Pessoa, the Body and Society In Jose Saramago's O Ano Da Morte De Ricardo Reis

Journal of Romance Studies, Jan 1, 2002

Research paper thumbnail of 'Once but No Longer the Prow of Europe': National Identity and Portuguese Destiny In José Saramago's The Stone Raft

Research paper thumbnail of Rebuilding the Angolan body politic: global and local projections of identity and protest in 'O Herói’

Journal of African Cinemas, 2012

This article uses a reading of Zézé Gamboa's award-winning 2004 feature as a basis for an explora... more This article uses a reading of Zézé Gamboa's award-winning 2004 feature as a basis for an exploration of post-conflict Angolan screen culture and of its impact both at home and internationally. It considers how O Herói’s depiction of a war-torn nation, and of the impediments to its reconstruction, negotiates between a socially-engaged film-making practice, informed by local tradition and the tenets of ‘Third Cinema’, and the demands of a globalised cinema market. The film achieves this compromise by deploying allegorical and symbolic tropes, familiar from the literature, cinema, and political discourse of the era of Angolan liberation (notably, the concept of a socialist ‘new man’), to complicate a superficially optimistic story of post-conflict rehabilitation, and to insinuate a critique of the authoritarian practices and neo-liberal policies of the MPLA government. Further to this, the article identifies strategies through which the film advertises the gulf between its fiction of individual triumph over adversity and, on the other hand, the grimmer reality of Angola’s post-conflict malaise. Finally, it considers how the film’s construction of an encrypted allegory also prompts the question of whether or not film production that depends upon the funding and agendas of international capital and neo-colonial powers can ever foster the resurgence of a genuinely ‘popular’ and progressive culture in post-conflict Angola.

Research paper thumbnail of _Nós Matámos o Cão-Tinhoso_: A emasculação de África e a crise do patriarca negro

Esta leitura enfoca a denúncia honwaniana à sistemática desvirilização, pelo poder colonial, do h... more Esta leitura enfoca a denúncia honwaniana à sistemática desvirilização, pelo poder colonial, do homem negro. Referindo-se a um modelo performativo de gênero que implica uma pluralidade de masculinidades, o artigo afirma que a humilhação e brutalização que Honwana nos representa reflectem a imbricação, no lusotropicalismo, de hierarquias opressivas de raça e de gênero, e a necessária supressão do patriarca negro para suster o mito da <<civilização>> portugesa a ser <> na <> africana. A associação de masculinidade hegemónica com um prosseguimento violento da autoriedade colonial vai marginalizando os valores que o texto atribui à masculinidade indígena, assim necessitando a consciência insubmissa e a insurreição armada.

This reading addresses Honwana’s critique of colonialism’s systematic emasculation of the black man. Identifying the performative regulation of a co-existing plurality of masculinities, the article argues that Honwana’s depictions of humiliation and violence indicate lusotropicalism’s imbrication of oppressive hierarchies of race and gender, and the need to efface the indigenous patriarch so as to sustain the myth of Portuguese ‘civilization’’s propagation in a ‘savage’ Africa. Meanwhile, hegemonic masculinity’s association with the brutal assertion of colonial authority marginalizes values attributed to an indigenous paradigm of masculinity. This makes insubordination necessary, and armed rebellion inevitable.

Research paper thumbnail of Sexual Difference and Gender Dysphoria in Eça de Queirós's O Primo Basílio and O Crime do Padre Amaro

The thesis novels of Eça de Queirós have long been acknowledged as a high-water mark in nineteent... more The thesis novels of Eça de Queirós have long been acknowledged as a high-water mark in nineteenth-century Portuguese prose fiction. Equally, however, they are a crucial source of evidence for the dissemination in Portugal of new ideas about the human constitution, and about the social roles and interactions of men and women in an increasingly industrialized, urban and literate society. This essay's subject is Eça's ambivalent engagement with contemporary arguments for women's emancipation, a project that had a complex and uneasy relationship with the Portuguese liberal program for national 'regeneration' that the novelist espoused. As Ana Paula Ferreira has emphasized, Eça's depiction of middle-class women's sexual transgressions reflects both a contemporary conception of the nation as a male-focused and male-ordered organism, and widespread anxiety regarding the future of this organism. His first two novels depict female adultery as intrinsic to a vicious cycle of social ills that, by imperilling individual women, also endangers the nation, by compromising women's fulfilment of a patriotic duty of conceiving and rearing the new 1

Research paper thumbnail of Introduction : Saramago and the politics of literary quotation

SABINE, Mark ; MARTINS, Adriana Alves de Paula - Introduction : Saramago and the politics of lite... more SABINE, Mark ; MARTINS, Adriana Alves de Paula - Introduction : Saramago and the politics of literary quotation. In In dialogue with Saramago : essays in comparative literature. Manchester : Manchester Spanish & Portuguese Studies, 2006. ISBN 0-9539968-8-3. p. 1-24

Research paper thumbnail of Killing (and) Nostalgia: Testimony and the Image of Empire in Margarida Cardoso’s A Costa dos Murmúrios

Research paper thumbnail of Colonial Masculinities under a Woman's Gaze in Margarida Cardoso's _A Costa dos Murmurios_

This study reads Cardoso's 2004 adaptation of Lidia Jorge's 1988 novel as a study of white women'... more This study reads Cardoso's 2004 adaptation of Lidia Jorge's 1988 novel as a study of white women's agency in the colonial order of late Estado Novo-era Portugal, by focusing on how the film positions male subjects and male bodies as objects of both its female narrator-protagonist's gaze and of the viewer's gaze. Responding to feminist and psychoanalytical theories of the cinematic gaze, this article argues that the protagonist's powerful - yet not inherently or aberrantly 'masculine' - female gaze becomes the matrix within which teh film creates parodies of the iconography of white male heroism, parodies that overturn the conventional representations of European colonial agency and power, illustrate the clumsy and violent operations of racial and gener hierarchies underpinning a faltering imperial dominion, and contradict the Estado Novo's Lusotropicalist apologia for colonial rule as a consensual civilizing project. (Adapted from the editors' Introduction to _Gender, Empire, and Postcolony_, p.12).

Research paper thumbnail of Saramago's ‘Other’ Pessoas and ‘Pessoan’ Others: Heteronymic Creation and the Ethics of Alterity

Volume abstract: Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) is Portugal’s most celebrated poet of the twentieth... more Volume abstract:
Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) is Portugal’s most celebrated poet of the twentieth century, who wrote under the guise of dozens of literary personalities, or heteronyms. As well as his poetry, however, his work is marked by a constantly inventive and innovative engagement with authors and literary traditions from an astonishing variety of sources, placing him firmly in the worldwide literary canon. The present volume brings together a number of experts at the forefront of Pessoa studies internationally, with chapters examining his literary relations with Italy, Spain, France, England and Portugal, as well as his contextualisation in relation to major philosophers such as Kant and Nietzsche. It features essays examining his work from a range of perspectives to complement the multi-faceted nature of Pessoa himself (psychoanalytical, philosophical, political and artistic), and it includes consideration of his prose masterpiece The Book of Disquiet, as well as of various aspects of his poetic oeuvre.

David G. Frier is Senior Lecturer in Portuguese at the University of Leeds.

With the contributions:

David G. Frier — Introduction: Pessoa/Pessoas?
Richard Zenith — Nietzsche and the Super-Pessoa
Mattia Riccardi — António Mora and German Philosophy: Between Kant and Nietzsche
Mariana Gray de Castro — Pessoa, Shakespeare, Hamlet and the Heteronyms: Studies in Neurosis
Rui Gonçalves Miranda — Masters and Spectres: Pessoa’s Haunts
Rhian Atkin — Going Nowhere in Voyage autour de ma chambre and ‘Viagem Nunca Feita’
Pedro Eiras — ‘Ode Triunfal’ with a Breakdown at the End
David G. Frier — Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Unamuno, Bernardo Soares and the Literary Gaze
Paulo de Medeiros — Representing Pessoa
Mark Sabine — Saramago’s ‘Other’ Pessoas and ‘Pessoan’ Others: Heteronymic Creation and the Ethics of Alterity
Liz Wren-Owens — Tabucchi’s Pessoa: A Legacy Repaid?

Research paper thumbnail of Um olhar consumidor: O antropofagismo "luso-queer" nos “Truques De Ilusionismo" de Al Berto

Aboud, S., Lopes, D., Mello, B., Garcia, W. Imagem e …, Jan 1, 2004

Research paper thumbnail of The Art of Seeing Queerly

Reading Literature in Portuguese

Research paper thumbnail of Introduction : Saramago and the politics of literary quotation

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Fernando Pessoa's Modernity without Frontiers: Influences, Dialogues, Responses, 2013

Research paper thumbnail of Giovanni Pontiero's translation of Clarice Lispector's Family Ties (Laços de Familia)

Benjamins Translation Library, 1997

Research paper thumbnail of The Twilight World of the Lusosexual: Exploring Sexuality In Portuguese-Language Literatures

Journal of Romance Studies 5:2 (2005), pp.103-112

Research paper thumbnail of Gender, Race, and Violence in Luís Bernardo Honwana’s Nós Matámos o Cão-Tinhoso: The emasculation of the African patriarch

This reading addresses Honwana’s critique of colonialism’s systematic emasculation of the black m... more This reading addresses Honwana’s critique of colonialism’s systematic emasculation of the black man. Identifying the performative regulation of a co-existing plurality of masculinities, the article argues that Honwana’s depictions of humiliation and violence indicate lusotropicalism’s imbrication of oppressive hierarchies of race and gender, and the need to efface the indigenous patriarch so as to sustain the myth of Portuguese ‘civilization’’s propagation in a ‘savage’ Africa. Meanwhile, hegemonic masculinity’s association with the brutal assertion of colonial authority marginalizes values attributed to an indigenous paradigm of masculinity. This makes insubordination necessary, and armed rebellion inevitable.

Research paper thumbnail of Refitting the Lexicon of Resistance: Saramago, symbolism, and dictatorship

Volume abstract: This multi-authored volume offers the first extensive exploration of cultural m... more Volume abstract:
This multi-authored volume offers the first extensive exploration of cultural memory in Portugal and Spain, two countries that are normally studied in isolation from one another due to linguistic divergences. The book contains an important theoretical survey of cultural memory today and a comparative analysis of the historical background influencing studies of memory in the Iberian Peninsula. It includes the work of eleven specialists on contemporary Spanish and Portuguese history, culture and literature and establishes a series of parallel themes that lace the chapters together: resistance; literary and popular representations of the figure of the dictator; gender; intergenerational links and changing paradigms of war stories; and the performance of memory. The essays gathered here will be of interest to scholars of both national cultures as well as those concerned with issues of memory, trauma and the historical legacy of war and dictatorship.

Research paper thumbnail of Embodying Pessoa: Corporeality, Gender, Sexuality

Ao Victor e à Maria José, pela inspiração To Tina, with thanks from all Mark&#x27;s heteronym... more Ao Victor e à Maria José, pela inspiração To Tina, with thanks from all Mark&#x27;s heteronyms ... Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Pessoa&#x27;s Bodies 3 anna m. klobucka and mark sabine Part One: Corporeal Investigations To Pretend Is to Know Oneself 39 dana stevens ...

Research paper thumbnail of Botto, António. The Songs of António Botto, translated by Fernando Pessoa and edited with an introduction by Josiah Blackmore. U of Minnesota P, 2010

Journal of Lusophone Studies, 2011

Recent years have seen a revival of interest in António Botto, abetted by Eduardo Pitta’s fine ne... more Recent years have seen a revival of interest in António Botto, abetted by Eduardo Pitta’s fine new editions of his works for Quasi Edições. It is nonetheless remarkable that two new editions have appeared of Fernando Pessoa’s exquisite 1933 translation of Botto’s Canções, previously available only in a privately produced and circulated 1948 edition, of which precious few copies survive. While Jerónimo Pizarro and Nuno Ribeiro’s edition for Guimarães Editores, also published in 2010, responds to the needs of Pessoa scholars, Josiah Blackmore’s elegant and meticulously researched volume presents the Songs for an Anglophone readership, opening with a cogent, perceptive introductory essay, which powerfully advocates Botto’s claim to the world’s attention on three counts.

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Research paper thumbnail of Mother Africa, Father Marx: Women’s Writing of Mozambique - 1948-2002, De Hilary Owen

Via Atlântica, 2010

excelente estudo de Hilary Owen, 1 o primeiro livro sobre a produção de escritoras moçambicanas a... more excelente estudo de Hilary Owen, 1 o primeiro livro sobre a produção de escritoras moçambicanas a ser editado em língua inglesa, recomenda-se a todos apreciadores das culturas da África lusófona pelo sucesso em realçar, de modo tão incisivo quanto imaginativo, a complexa relação de divisões de género com a concepção da nação e o domínio da palavra literária. Como o significado duplo do seu título indica, o livro propõe não o remodelar do cânone moçambicano para assim outorgar mais destaque à experiência e autoria femininas, mas sim a interrogação, sustentada pela teoria pós-colonial feminista, do conceito de canonicidade em si próprio. Por meio de uma abordagem lúcida, e arguta, Owen evidencia os contornos específicos ao caso moçambicano das relações hierarquizadas de género em que se radicam os discursos sobre a nação e a nacionalidade, e explora a apropriação e a transformação levadas a cabo por quatro autoras dos símbolos e tropos cardeais desses discursos. As leituras meticulosas que Owen oferece de obras-chave de Noémia de Sousa, Lina Magaia, Lília Momplé e Paulina Chiziane reivindica o sucesso destas em desafiar as vagas na narrativa da moçambicanidade que, ao longo da sua evolução desde a época do lusotropicalismo até aquela do neoliberalismo, marginalizaram ou restringiram as liberdades de agência e expressão femininas.

Research paper thumbnail of Book review: The Songs of António Botto, translated by Fernando Pessoa

Research paper thumbnail of Form and Ideology In the Novels of José Saramago, 1980–1989

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Research paper thumbnail of Canone literário, identidade e expressao "queer" em "Salsugem" de Al Berto

Coloquio-letras, 2010

... Canone literário, identidade e expressao &quot;queer&quot; em &quot;Salsugem&... more ... Canone literário, identidade e expressao &quot;queer&quot; em &quot;Salsugem&quot; de Al Berto. Autores:Mark Sabine; Localización: Colóquio: Letras, ISSN 0010-1451, Nº. 173, 2010 , págs. 47-63. Fundación Dialnet. Acceso de usuarios registrados. ...

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Research paper thumbnail of José Saramago: History, Utopia, and the Necessity of Error

Although best known internationally for his ‘allegorical’ novels such as Blindness (1995), in his... more Although best known internationally for his ‘allegorical’ novels such as Blindness (1995), in his native Portugal, José Saramago remains most acclaimed for his earlier, richly poetic ‘historical’ novels. This new study of five of these works focuses on José Saramago's engagement with political and social philosophy from across Europe, so as to track his commitment to libertarian socialism in an era of neo-liberal economics and disillusion. Though deeply pessimistic about human being’s capacity to deliver social justice, Saramago never abandons the progressive cause. Making use of insights from Gramsci, Walter Benjamin, and Marcuse, among others, this study argues that Saramago sought to engage his reader with a skeptical but vibrant utopianism: teaching us to abandon absolutes and embrace error as inevitable, and, indeed, even necessary. From this post-humanist perspective, humanity becomes understood as ongoing project rather than essence, challenging individuals to strive for self-knowledge and reinvention

Research paper thumbnail of In Dialogue with Saramago: Essays in Comparative Literature

Manchester: Manchester Spanish and Portuguese …, 2006

In Dialogue with Saramago: Essays in comparative literature is a collection of new studies of Sar... more In Dialogue with Saramago: Essays in comparative literature is a collection of new studies of Saramago's work, written by some of the world's leading specialists in contemporary Portuguese literature. As one of the first English-language volumes to be published on this internationally acclaimed author, it is aimed both at literary scholars and at fans of Saramago's novels, and uses a comparative approach to build up an overview of his 40-year long writing career. Comparisons of Saramago's works with those of Günter Grass, Gabriel García Márquez and Gore Vidal offer an assessment in the context of the contemporary international literary scene. Meanwhile, Saramago's contribution to literary traditions within Portugal is traced by readings relating his work to that of Camões, Pessoa and Camilo Castelo Branco. Other essays illuminate relationships with some of the best-established figures in literary history, from Dante, Cervantes and Dostoevsky to Borges, Orwell and Camus, in order to complete a picture of Saramago's work within contemporary delineations of the canon of western literature. The volume also contains a critical introduction that focuses on Saramago's assessment of the political implications of quoting and rewriting, and that briefly reviews a number of existing comparative studies of Saramago's work in both English and Portuguese.

Research paper thumbnail of Embodying Pessoa

University of Toronto Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2007

Acknowledgments Introduction: Pessoa's Bodies ANNA M. KLOBUCKA and MARK SABINEPart One: Corpo... more Acknowledgments Introduction: Pessoa's Bodies ANNA M. KLOBUCKA and MARK SABINEPart One: Corporeal InvestigationsTo Pretend Is to Know Oneself DANA STEVENSStrength, Contemplation, and Disquiet: Towards a Corporeal Aesthetic of the Heteronyms ALESSANDRA M. PIRESUnburied Bodies: Abdication and Art Production in The Book of Disquiet BLAKE STRAWBRIDGEPart Two: Reading Pessoa QueerlyFernando Pessoa: The Homoerotic Drama FERNANDO ARENAsFernando Pessoa, He Had His Nerve GEORGE MONTEIRO'Ever-repositioned mysteries': Homosexuality and Heteronymity in 'Antinous' MARK SABINEPart Three: (Dis)Placing WomenThe Truant Muse and the Poet's Body M. IRENE RAMALHO SANTOSKissing All Whores: Displaced Women and the Poetics of Modernity in Alvaro de Campos KATHRYN BISHOP-SANCHEZTogether at Last: Reading the Love Letters of Ophelia Queiroz and Fernando Pessoa ANNA M. KLOBUCKAPart Four: Pessoa in PerformanceAppearances of the Author FERNANDO CABRAL MARTINSAutomatic Romance: Pessoa's Mediumistic Writings as Sexual Theatre RICHARD ZENITHAntonio Tabucchi in Search of Pessoa's Heteronymous Body FRANCESCA BILLIANIContributors Index