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Latest Articles: Portuguese StudiesTWOProject MUSE®Portuguese Studies2222-42700267-5315Latest articles in Portuguese Studies. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Preface
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/978665
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This commemorative issue of Portuguese Studies marks and celebrates forty years of publication. Fittingly, the issue pays due respect to its origins and founding editor by opening with a reflection piece from Professor Helder Macedo, complemented and supplemented by that of a second long-standing editor, Dr Juliet Perkins. In two more reflection pieces, Professors David Treece and David Brookshaw offer us their wider perspectives on the scholarship of Portuguese and Brazilian studies, especially in the UK. All four contributors have played a pivotal role in the growth, success, and status of the scholarship, as well as the journal, over its four decades of publication. On behalf of the current editorial board, I
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/821/image/coversmallPreface2026-01-10text/htmlen-USPreface2026-01-102026TWOProject MUSE®42942026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-01-10Portuguese Studies
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/978666
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In 1982, I was appointed Camoens Professor of Portuguese at King's College, London. At the time, the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies that I would go on to lead was the only one in the United Kingdom exclusively devoted to the study and dissemination Portuguese-language cultures. It was a dubious privilege that came with great responsibilities I sought to fulfil.The Camoens Chair was founded in 1919, in the aftermath of the First World War. It was created, in part, as amends for the plan to divide up the Portuguese colonies, hatched between Germany and the UK in the run-up to the war. The diplomatic efforts of the fledging Portuguese Republic, established in 1910, and represented in the UK by the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/821/image/coversmallPortuguese Studies2026-01-10text/htmlen-USPortuguese Studies2026-01-102026TWOProject MUSE®89722026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-01-10Portuguese Studies: Some Recollections
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/978667
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Portuguese Studies was a fundamental stage in the development and recognition of Lusophone Studies in the United Kingdom. It was the brainchild of Helder Macedo, who was appointed to the Camoens Chair of Portuguese in 1982 and is so bound up with the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at King's College London that this memoir will be as much about the academic milieu as about the journal itself. After my retirement in 2011, I remained as an editor for several more years, though admittedly rather a passive one. There are many whose experience of the new series (starting in 2005) is fresher and more current, so I shall hark back mostly to the first series (vols 1–20) and particularly to its early years
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/821/image/coversmallPortuguese Studies: Some Recollections2026-01-10text/htmlen-USPortuguese Studies: Some Recollections2026-01-102026TWOProject MUSE®146162026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-01-10Portuguese as a University Subject over the Course of a Career: A Memoir
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/978668
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It is impossible to write about the evolution of Portuguese in UK universities over a period of nearly forty eventful years without delving into personal memory as well as certain landmarks in the academic history of the subject. This essay will therefore extend a little further back from when I was an undergraduate and postgraduate student at one institution between 1968 and 1974, prior to embarking on a career in teaching and research at two UK universities between 1974 and 2011.In the 1950s, Portuguese was taught at a limited number of British universities, mainly within departments of Spanish. The only exception was at King's College London, where the Camões Chair of Portuguese in the one independent department
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/821/image/coversmallPortuguese as a University Subject over the Course of a Career: A Memoir2026-01-10text/htmlen-USPortuguese as a University Subject over the Course of a Career: A Memoir2026-01-102026TWOProject MUSE®243642026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-01-10A Special Case? Exceptionalism and Interdisciplinarity in Brazilian Cultural Studies
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/978669
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The following brief reflections on Brazilian cultural studies in the United Kingdom were originally drafted as a keynote lecture for the occasion of the inaugural conference of the European Network of Brazilianists Working in Cultural Analysis (REBRAC) in 2015.1 In presenting them here essentially unaltered, I hope they may serve as a modest commentary on the significance of that moment for the history of our discipline, marked as it was by the creation of such an important new scholarly organization. The essay raises more questions than it answers, but if they do resonate with today's reader, then this surely reflects the degree to which the shifts and challenges that faced Brazilianists in 2015 remain just as
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/821/image/coversmallA Special Case? Exceptionalism and Interdisciplinarity in Brazilian Cultural Studies2026-01-10text/htmlen-USA Special Case? Exceptionalism and Interdisciplinarity in Brazilian Cultural Studies2026-01-102026TWOProject MUSE®221872026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-01-10A Short History of the Association of British and Irish Lusitanists (ABIL)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/978670
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ABIL started as a conversation between friends during a sunny break in the AIL conference in Santiago de Compostela (2005). A couple of us, who were then at the start of our career, watched as the plan solidified into what quickly became ABIL. In 2005, there was a growth in numbers learning, teaching and researching Portuguese across British and Irish universities, and we had a very good academic journal, Portuguese Studies (celebrating its fortieth year in this issue). It was time to create a space of our own, where people interested in research and teaching within the Portuguese-speaking world could share what we were all doing, and where we could continue to raise the profile of Portuguese Studies.We are an
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/821/image/coversmallA Short History of the Association of British and Irish Lusitanists (ABIL)2026-01-10text/htmlen-USA Short History of the Association of British and Irish Lusitanists (ABIL)2026-01-102026TWOProject MUSE®78202026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-01-10Building a Brazilian Cultural Analysis Network in Europe and Beyond: Reflections on a Ten-year Milestone and Future Plans for REBRAC
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/978671
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As Portuguese Studies marks its fortieth anniversary of dissemination of scholarship on and from the Portuguese-speaking world, the landmark provides us with a fortuitous opportunity to reflect on the work of REBRAC (Rede Europeia de Brasilianistas de Análise Cultural/European Network of Brazilianists Working in Cultural Analysis), a fellow initiative that marks an anniversary of its own in this same year.REBRAC was launched in 2015 by Sara Brandellero (Leiden University), Stephanie Dennison (University of Leeds), and Tori Holmes (Queen's University Belfast) to provide a networking space for both established and postgraduate or early career scholars working in Brazilian cultural studies/cultural analysis in the UK
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/821/image/coversmallBuilding a Brazilian Cultural Analysis Network in Europe and Beyond: Reflections on a Ten-year Milestone and Future Plans for REBRAC2026-01-10text/htmlen-USBuilding a Brazilian Cultural Analysis Network in Europe and Beyond: Reflections on a Ten-year Milestone and Future Plans for REBRAC2026-01-102026TWOProject MUSE®165542026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-01-10Translating India: Latin Accounts of Vasco da Gama's Encounter with the Zamorin
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/978672
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In this article I examine Latin descriptions of the very first interaction between Vasco da Gama and the King of Calicut, the Zamorin, which took place in India in 1498. The same event appears in four accounts, namely by Jeronimo Osorio (1571), Giovanni Pietro Maffei (1588), Thomas Faria (1622) and Andreas Baianus (1625). Vernacular accounts frequently included this interaction and circulated widely prior to the completion of Latin accounts.2 Nevertheless, my study explores Latin translations of this interaction and India's representation as part of the humanistic tradition.Although India's appearance in this neoclassical garb has been explored less frequently, classicists and historians have examined India's
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/821/image/coversmallTranslating India: Latin Accounts of Vasco da Gama's Encounter with the Zamorin2026-01-10text/htmlen-USTranslating India: Latin Accounts of Vasco da Gama's Encounter with the Zamorin2026-01-102026TWOProject MUSE®857372026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-01-10War and the Walls within: A Study of A General Theory of Oblivion by José Eduardo Agualusa
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/978673
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The epigraph to Jorge Luis Borges's El Aleph, drawn from Francis Bacon's Essays LVIII — 'Solomon saith: there is no new thing upon the earth […] all novelty is but oblivion'1 — frames a philosophical meditation on memory and the illusion of innovation. Echoing Plato's theory of anamnesis, Bacon suggests that what seems new is merely knowledge forgotten and then recovered. Borges develops this idea by imagining a mystical point in space that contains all other points, destabilizing linear conceptions of time and originality. In El Aleph, all things coexist — past, present, and future — collapsing the boundary between remembering and inventing. Borges further explores the limits of cognition in 'Funes, el
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/821/image/coversmallWar and the Walls within: A Study of A General Theory of Oblivion by José Eduardo Agualusa2026-01-10text/htmlen-USWar and the Walls within: A Study of A General Theory of Oblivion by José Eduardo Agualusa2026-01-102026TWOProject MUSE®1077752026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-01-10Geospatial Analysis of O Quinze by Rachel de Queiroz: Mapping Literary Spaces with ArcGIS Pro
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/978674
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Studies at the intersection of geography and literature demonstrate that literary spaces influence not only how we interpret the real world but also how it is materially experienced. Scholars such as Victoria Saramago,1 Aarti Smith Madan,2 Robert Tally,3 and Sally Bushell,4 among others, have examined the interconnectedness of fiction and reality. In this article, I shift the perspective: by engaging with real spaces, I demonstrate how mapping can generate new insights into those elements of a novel that have received little critical attention, and whose significance becomes clearer when visualized cartographically. Rachel de Queiroz's O Quinze (1930) provides a compelling case for this approach. The novel is
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/821/image/coversmallGeospatial Analysis of O Quinze by Rachel de Queiroz: Mapping Literary Spaces with ArcGIS Pro2026-01-10text/htmlen-USGeospatial Analysis of O Quinze by Rachel de Queiroz: Mapping Literary Spaces with ArcGIS Pro2026-01-102026TWOProject MUSE®933822026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-01-10'Orphans of water. Orphans of land': Capitalism's Life of Violence in Maria Altamira and The Need for Roots
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/978675
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Early in The Need for Roots (1987), Simone Weil asserts that progress can only be measured in relation to the fulfilment of our one and only obligation: 'duty towards the human being as such — that alone is eternal'.1 Maria José Silveira's novel Maria Altamira (2020) tackles capitalism as the life-system that runs against the obligation Weil insists on and sits at the core of their analyses of modern violence. Centring the displacement, dispossession, extraction, and death that the Belo Monte hydropower dam generated in the city of Altamira (Pará, Brazil) and upon the populations of the Xingu River, Maria Altamira furthers Weil's analysis of uprootedness as the fundamental mark of modern capitalist life and its
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/821/image/coversmall'Orphans of water. Orphans of land': Capitalism's Life of Violence in Maria Altamira and The Need for Roots2026-01-10text/htmlen-US'Orphans of water. Orphans of land': Capitalism's Life of Violence in Maria Altamira and The Need for Roots2026-01-102026TWOProject MUSE®966212026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-01-10The 1890 British Ultimatum in the International Satirical Press
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/978676
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On 11 January 1890, a political earthquake shook Portugal and the House of Braganza. A short memorandum by Lord Salisbury, Prime Minister of Portugal's oldest ally, Great Britain, informed the government of the Partido Progressista that if Portugal did not immediately withdraw from disputed zones in Africa, the small Iberian country would suffer the consequences. It was the highpoint of mounting British–Portuguese tensions during the second half of the nineteenth century. In Portugal, the memorandum triggered nationalist protests, led to the fall of José Luciano de Castro's government, tarnished the image and prestige of the Portuguese royal family, and exacerbated the rising anti-British sentiment of recent
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/821/image/coversmallThe 1890 British Ultimatum in the International Satirical Press2026-01-10text/htmlen-USThe 1890 British Ultimatum in the International Satirical Press2026-01-102026TWOProject MUSE®1085402026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-01-10Integrating Brazilian Literature and Plurilingualism to Decolonize Latin American Studies Curricula
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/978677
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The online Encyclopaedia Britannica defines Latin American literature as 'the national literatures of the Spanish-speaking countries of the Western Hemisphere'. Although it does acknowledge that, 'historically, it also includes the literary expression of the highly developed American Indian civilizations conquered by the Spaniards' and that 'over the years, Latin American literature has developed a rich and complex diversity of themes, forms, creative idioms, and styles', only a brief nod to Brazilian literature appears as a separate entity: 'For a history of literature written in Portuguese in Brazil, see Brazilian literature'.1 Without delving into the academic debate surrounding the origins of the concept of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/821/image/coversmallIntegrating Brazilian Literature and Plurilingualism to Decolonize Latin American Studies Curricula2026-01-10text/htmlen-USIntegrating Brazilian Literature and Plurilingualism to Decolonize Latin American Studies Curricula2026-01-102026TWOProject MUSE®1111712026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-01-10Transatlantic Radio Dramas: Antônio Callado and the BBC Latin American Service during and after World War II by Daniel Mandur Thomaz (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/978678
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Transatlantic Radio Dramas offers an important scholarly contribution to the study of the Brazilian author Antônio Callado (1917–1997), as well as to the role of radio in cultural diplomacy and propaganda during the Second World War. In this well-written study, Daniel Mandur Thomaz provides a rigorous reading and insightful analysis of Callado's hitherto unstudied early radio drama scripts. A Brazilian journalist, playwright, and novelist, and author of the modern classic Quarup (1967), Callado's anglophilia was well-known. It was also widely known that he had spent time in the UK during his youth, not least because towards the end of his writing career Callado wrote Memórias de Aldenham House (1989), an
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/821/image/coversmallTransatlantic Radio Dramas: Antônio Callado and the BBC Latin American Service during and after World War II by Daniel Mandur Thomaz (review)2026-01-10text/htmlen-USTransatlantic Radio Dramas: Antônio Callado and the BBC Latin American Service during and after World War II by Daniel Mandur Thomaz (review)2026-01-102026TWOProject MUSE®150792026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-01-10Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the Seventeenth Century by José Lingna Nafafé (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/978679
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Basing himself on almost two decades of deep archival research across four continents, José Lingna Nafafé painstakingly reconstructs the biography of Prince Lourenço da Silva Mendonça (1620–1698), tracing his physical, social, and intellectual journeys between West Central Africa, South America, and Europe. In bringing to light this exceptional Black man's life and legacy, Nafafé also unearths an unprecedented and practically unknown Black abolitionist movement more than a century prior to organized White European agitations against slavery. Nafafé expertly crafts an impressively complex and decolonial narrative over six chapters. The first two chapters outline the violence permeating West Central Africa and the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/821/image/coversmallLourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the Seventeenth Century by José Lingna Nafafé (review)2026-01-10text/htmlen-USLourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the Seventeenth Century by José Lingna Nafafé (review)2026-01-102026TWOProject MUSE®121122026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-01-10The Captains' Coup: From Dictatorship to Democracy in Portugal (1974–1976) by Wilfred G. Burchett (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/978680
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In 1975, Seara Nova published a book in Portuguese in its series Coleção de leste a oeste, based on a manuscript by the Australian journalist Wilfred Burchett (1911–1983), with the title Portugal: depois da Revolução dos Capitães. Luiz Sttau Monteiro had translated the original English manuscript into Portuguese, and the publication (317 pages) had a significant circulation of 20,200 copies. The book was considered the fortnightly bestseller of the Expresso newspaper on 2 August 1975. A year later, Burchett published a much smaller book, also with Seara Nova, translated by Ana Clara Soares, covering the events leading up to the coup of November 1975 and its aftermath. The new title was Portugal antes e depois do 25
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/821/image/coversmallThe Captains' Coup: From Dictatorship to Democracy in Portugal (1974–1976) by Wilfred G. Burchett (review)2026-01-10text/htmlen-USThe Captains' Coup: From Dictatorship to Democracy in Portugal (1974–1976) by Wilfred G. Burchett (review)2026-01-102026TWOProject MUSE®135222026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-01-10Representations of Austerity Urbanism in Contemporary Portuguese Film: The Case of São Jorge
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/978704
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The precarization of work brings in its wake the precarization of life and citizenship, and has a profound impact on the social organization of urban space. Subject to the dynamics of precarity and social exclusion, the Portuguese financial crisis (2008–14) reshaped urban space, forming what we could term geographies of precarity.This article focuses on the consequences of the politics of austerity implemented in Portugal and how subsequent precarity and entrapment is expressed through cinematic space in the film São Jorge [Saint George] (2016), directed by Marco Martins. Here I consider the concept of precarity in the context of the financial crisis in Portugal and the intervention of the Troika. The impact of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/821/image/coversmallRepresentations of Austerity Urbanism in Contemporary Portuguese Film: The Case of São Jorge2026-01-10text/htmlen-USRepresentations of Austerity Urbanism in Contemporary Portuguese Film: The Case of São Jorge2026-01-102026TWOProject MUSE®919292026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002026-01-10