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Would you like to receive and review a book, CD or DVD listed below for Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies? Would you like to review a recent book not listed below? Let us know. Please consult "Guidelines for submitting a manuscript" at www.plcs.umassd.edu and e-mail the editor at vmendes@umassd.edu.
Publishers and authors: Please send us two copies of your recently published works in the Humanities or the Social Sciences relevant for Luso-Afro-Brazilian Studies & Theory. One copy is for the reviewer; the other one is for Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies.
Books, CDs and DVDs Received for Possible Review
Caetano Veloso. Cê. Nonesuch. CD.
Status: Reviewed by Dário Borim Jr. Received by the editor.
Almeida, Onésimo T. Tales From the Tenth Island. Selection, Translation and Introduction by David Brookshaw. Bristol: Seagull/Faoileán, 2006. ISBN 0-9553922-0-9
Rodrigues Miguéis, José. The Polyhedric Mirror: Tales of American Life. Selection, Translation and Introduction by Davis Brookshaw. Providence: Gávea-Brown, 2005. ISBN 0-943722-34-9
Brown, Matthew. Adveturing through Spanish Colonies: Simón Bolívar, Foreign Mercenaries and the Birth of New Nations. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2006. ISBN 184631044X
Visions of China: Stories From Macau. Selected and Translated by David Brookshaw. Providence: Gávea-Brown and Hong Kong University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-943722-29-2
Saraiva, António José. Initiation Into Portuguese Literature. Trans. Christopher C. Lund. Santa Barbara, CA: University of California Santa Barbara (Center for Portuguese Studies), 2006. ISBN 0-9785179-0-7. ISBN 978-0-978 8179-0-9.
Jackson, K. David, ed. Anthology of the Brazilian Short Story.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
ISBN 978-0-19-530964-5 (pbk.).
Perkins, Juliet. Martyr of Innocence: A Letter from Inês de Castro.
Bristol, UK: Department of Hispanic, Portuguese & Latin American Studies, University of Bristol, 2006.
ISBN 0-9553922-2-5.
Status: To be reviewed by Sílvia Oliveira, Purdue University. Deadline: April 2, 2007
Borge, Jason. Avances de Hollywood. Crítica Cinematográfica en America Latina 1915-1945.
Argentina: Beatriz Viterbo, 2005.
ISBN 9508451599
Derrida, Jacques. H. C. for Life, That Is to Say...
Stanford California: Stanford University Press, 2006.
ISBN 080475402
Gazzaniga, Michael S. The Ethical Brain.
New York: Harper Perennial, 2006.
ISBN 1932594019
Pinto, António Costa. O Fim do Império Português.
Lisboa: Livros Horizonte, 2001.
ISBN 9722411470
Status: To be reviewed by Claudiany Pereira, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul. Deadline: May 1, 2007.
Madureira, Luís. Cannibal Modernities. Post coloniality and the Avant-garde in Caribbean and Brazilian Literature.Ed. James Arnold.
Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2005.
ISBN 0-8139-2376-x
Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich. In Praise of Athletic Beauty.
Cambridge Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2006.
ISBN 067402172
Kern, Stephen. A Cultural History of Causality: Science, Murder Novels, and Systems of Thought.
New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2006.
ISBN 0691115230.
Butterman, Steven F. Perversions on Parade: Brazilian Literature of Transgression and Postmodern Anti-Aesthetics in Glauco Mattoso.
San Diego: San Diego State University Press & Hyperbole Books, 2005.
ISBN 1-879691-69-8
Marcos, Plinio et al. 3 Contemporary Brazilian Plays.
Austin: Host Publications, 2006.
ISBN 0924047305
McCann, Brian. Hello, Hello Brazil.
Duke University Press, 2004.
ISBN 0822332736
Moretti, Franco Ed. The Novel. Volume 1: History, Geography and Culture. Volume 2: Forms and Themes.
New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2006.
ISBN 0691049475
Nussbaum, Martha C. Frontiers of Justice.
Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005.
ISBN 074019172
Pallotini, Renata. Renata and Other Poems. Trans. Kenneth David Jackson.
Austin: Host Publications, 2004.
ISBN 0924047275
Rorty, Richard. Take Care of Freedom and Truth Will Take Care of Itself.
Stanford California: Stanford University Press, 2006.
ISBN 0804746184
Szoka, Elzbieta Ed. Fourteen Female Voices From Brazil.
Austin: Host Publications, 2002.
ISBN 0924047232
Zizek, Slavoj. The Parallax View.
Cambridge: MIT Press, 2006.
ISBN 0262240513
Silva, António José da. Cretan Labyrinth. A Puppet Opera. Trans. and critical study Juliet Perkins.
Ceredigion, UK: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2004.
Lund, Joshua and Malcolm McNee, eds. Gilberto Freyre e os estudos latino-americanos.
Pittsburgh, PA: Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, 2006.
Viegas, Francisco José. Longe de Manaus. Lisboa: Asa, 2005. Fiction Prize of the Portuguese Association of Writers in 2006.
Walker Bynum, Caroline. Metamorphosis and Identity.
New York: Zone Books, 2001.
ISBN 1890951234.
(i)Pessoa, Fernando. Escritos Sobre Génio e Loucura. 2 vols. Ed. Jerónimo Pizarro. Lisboa: Imprensa-Nacional Casa da Moeda, 2006.
(ii) Pessoa, Fernnado. Obras de Jean Seul de Méluret. Ed. Rita Patrício and Jerónimo Pizarro. Lisboa: Imprensa-Nacional Casa da Moeda, 2006.
Status: (i) and (ii) to be reviewed by George Monteiro, Brown University.
Luna, Francisco Vidal and Herbert S. Klein. Brazil Since 1980.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
ISBN 0521527449.
Status: to be reviewed by Emmanuelle Oliveira, Vanderbilt University. Sent November 2006.
Cape Verdean literature:
Spínola, Danny. Amen Na Nha Xintidu. Praia: Tipografia Santos, 2006.
[Futugrafia di ótor at UMass on Friday, September 15, 2006 here.]
Spínola, Danny. Lagoa Gémia. 2 ed. Praia: Spleen Edições, 2006.
Frier, David. As (Trans)figurações do Eu nos Romances de Camilo Castelo Branco (1850-1870). Trad. João Nuno Corrêa Cardoso.
Lisboa: Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda, 2005.
Selected Letters of William Empson. Edited by John Haffenden.
Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Tavares, Pedro Vilas Boas. Beatas, Inquisidores e Teólogos. Reacção portuguesa a Miguel de Molinos.
Porto: CIUHE, 2005.
Orlotti, Luigi. Il Teatro Degli Eteronimi. Il neopaganesimo estetico di Fernando Pessoa.
Milano: Mimesis, 2006.
Ramos, João Manuel. Essays in Christian Mythology. The Metamorphosis of Prester John.
Lanham: University Press of America, 2006.
Monteiro, Pedro Meira. Um moralista nos trópicos: o visconde de Cairu e o duque de La Rochefoucauld.
São Paulo: Boitempo, 2004.
Alvarez, Maurício. O pênis bifurcado de satã: arte, imagem e cinema / Um ensaio sobre o 11 de setembro.
Rio de Janeiro: Booklink, 2004.
ISBN 858831960-8
de Oliveira, Maria Lúcia Wiltshire. De Camões a Saramago: leituras da pátria portuguesa.
Rio de Janeiro: Booklink, 2004.
ISBN 858831962-4.
Status: To be reviewed by David Frier. Deadline: September 1, 2006. Received.
Macedo, Helder. Sem Nome.
Lisboa: Presença, 2005.
ISBN 972-23-3329-1
Torga, Miguel. Iberian Poems. Trans. George Monteiro.
Providence, RI: Gávea-Brown, 2004.
ISBN 0-943722-33-0
Lourenço, Eduardo. This Little Lusitanian House: Essays on Portuguese Culture. Trans. Ronald W. Sousa.
Providence, RI: Gávea-Brown, 2003.
ISBN 0-943722-30-6
Holton, Kimberly DaCosta. Performing Folklore. Ranchos Folcróricos from Lisbon to Newark.
Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2005.
ISBN: 0-253-21831-4.
Status: To be reviewed by Michael Colvin. Received.
Coates, Timothy J. Convicts and Orphans.
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2002.
ISBN: 0804733597
Status: To be reviewed by Timothy Walker. Deadline: January 1st, 2006.
Sarkissian, Margaret. D'Albuquerque's Children. Performing Tradition in Malaysia's Portuguese Settlement.Chicago: UCP, 2000.
ISBN 0-226-73499-4
Status: To be reviewed by Naomi Leite, UC Berkeley. Deadline: March 1, 2007.
Maxwell, Kenneth. Naked Tropics. Essays on Empire and Other Rogues.
New York: Routledge, 2003.
ISBN 0-415-94577-1
Status: To be reviewed by Pedro Borges Graça.
Sarney, José. Master of the Sea. Trans. Gregory Rabassa.Minneapolis: Aliform Publishing, 2005.
ISBN 0-9707652-7-4
Vaz, Katherine. Mariana.
Minneapolis: Aliform Publishing, 2004.
ISBN 0-9707652-9-0
Melo, João de. My World is Not of This Kingdom. Trans. Gregory Rabassa.
Minneapolis: Aliform Publishing, 2003.
ISBN 0-9707652-4-x
Revista Camoniana. v.17. 3a série.
Bauru, São Paulo: EDUSC, 2005.
ISSN 0103-3239
Walker, Timothy D. Doctors, Folk Medicine and the Inquisition. The Repression of Magical Healing in Portugal during the Enlightenment.
Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2005.
ISBN 90 04 I4345 9
Status: To be reviewed by Bill Donovan.
Neto, João Cabral de Melo. Education by Stone. Selected Poems. Trans. Richard Zenith.
New York: Archipelago Books, 2005.
ISBN 0-9749680-1-3
Júdice, Nuno. O anjo da tempestade.
Lisboa: Dom Quixote, 2004
ISBN 972-20-2753-0
Pessoa, Fernando. The Education of The Stoic. The Only Manuscript of the Baron of Teive. Ed. and Trans. Richard Zenith.
Cambridge, MA: Exact Change, 2005.
ISBN 978-1-878972-40-8
Status: To be reviewed by Rafael Hernandez. Deadline: September 1, 2006.
Camões, Luís de. Selected Sonnets: A Bilingual Edition. Ed. and Trans. William Baer.
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2005.
ISBN 0-226-09266-6
Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais. n° 69.Coimbra: Centro de Estudos Sociais, Outubro 2004.
ISBN 0254-1106
Daunt, Ricardo. Poses.
São Paulo, Brasil: Via Lettera Editora, 2005.
Status: Reviewed by Marcos Falchero Falleiros. Received on 10.x.2006.
Gomes, Rita Costa. The Making of A Court Society: Kings and Nobles in Late Medievel Portugal. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
ISBN 0-521-80011-0
Status: To be reviewed by David Arbesú. Received.
Quinlan, Susan Canty and Fernando Arenas (Eds). Lusosex: Gender and Sexuality in the Portuguese-Speaking World.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002.
ISBN 0-8166-3921-3
Status: To be reviewed by Paulo Alexandre Pereira. Received.
Reis, Manuel. Da 'Lei de bases da Educação' - O Balanço Crítico (Mudança de Paradigma Sócio-Antropológica).
Guimarães: Livraria Ideal Editora e Centro de Estudos Humanismo Crítico, 2003.
ISBN 972-97267-3-6
Rosa, Armando Nascimento. Audição com Daisy ao vivo no Odre Marítimo. Évora: Casa do Sul Editora, 2003.
ISBN 972-8661-04-05
Rosa, Armando Nascimento. Lianor no País sem Pilhas.
Porto: Campo das Letras, 2001.
ISBN 972-610-368-1
Warren, Donald and Geoffrey L. Gomes. Land as Far as the Eye Can See: Portuguese in the Old West. Spokane, WA: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 2001.
ISBN 0-87062-306-0
Williams, Frederick G. (Translations, Introduction, and Notes by). Poets of Brazil: A Bilingual Selection.
New York: Luso-Brazilian Books, 2004.
ISBN 0-85051-701-X
Winius, George D. Studies on Portuguese Asia, 1495-1689.Berlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2001.
ISBN 0-86078-872-5
Revista do Centro de Estudos Portugueses. v.23 n.32.
Belo Horizonte: FALE/UFMG, Jan.-Dez. 2003.
ISSN 1676-515X
Borim Jr., Dário. Perplexidades: Raça, sexo e outras questões sociopolíticas no discurso cultural brasileiro.Niterói, RJ: Editora da Universidade Federal Fluminense, 2004.
ISBN 85-228-0379-X
Status: To be reviewed by Rafael Hernandez. Deadline: September 1, 2006.
DaSilva, Manuela Parreira. Realidade e Ficção: Para uma Biografia Epistolar de Fernando Pessoa.
Lisboa: Assírio e Alvim, 2005.
ISBN 972-37-0918-x
Daunt, Ricardo. Anacrusa.São Paulo, Brasil: Nankin Editroial, 2004.
ISBN 85-86372-63-3
Daunt, Ricardo. T.S. Eliot e Fernando Pessoa: Diálogos de New Haven.
São Paulo, Brasil: Landy Editora, 2004.
ISBN 85-7629-017-0. Reviewed. VM.
Ferreira-Pinto, Cristina. Gender, Discourse, and Desire in Twentieth-Century Brazilian Women's Literature.Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2004.
Status: Reviewed by Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez. Received.
Ginway, Elizabeth M. Brazilian Science Fiction: Cultural Myths and Nationhood in the Land of the Future.
Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2004.
ISBN 0-8387-5564-X
Navarro, Júlio (ed). Malangatana (Valente Ngwenia).Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, 2003.
ISBN 9987-685-45-1
Posso, Karl. Artful Seduction: Homosexuality and the Problematics of Exile.
Oxford: European Humanities Research Centre of the University of Oxford, 2003.
ISBN 1-90075586-6
Sá, Lúcia. Rain Forest Literatures: Amazonian Texts and Latin American Culture.London: University of Minnesota Press Minneapolis, 2004.
ISBN 0-8166-4325-3
Status: To be reviewed by Frans Weiser, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Deadline: June 15, 2008
Graça, Pedro Borges. A Construção da Nação em Africa.
Coimbra: Almedina, 2005.
ISBN 972-40-2485-7.
Status: To be reviewed by Luis Gonçalves, Columbia University. Deadline: April 2, 2007
Solha, W.J. Trigal Com Corvos.
Co-edição: Palimage Editores & Imprell Gráfica e Editora, 2004.
ISBN 972-8575-68-8
Graça, Pedro Borges. A Construção da Nação em Africa.Coimbra: Almedina, 2005.
ISBN 972-40-2485-7.
Status: To be reviewed by Luis Gonçalves, Columbia University. Deadline: April 2, 2007
Last Updated On: 4/15/08