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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. . 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
    Status: To be reviewed by Alani Rosa Hicks-Bartlett, University of California, Berkeley.
    Deadline: TBA.
  • 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

  • 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
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