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2. Lídia Jorge in Other Words/por Outras Palavras

Guest editor: Cláudia Pazos Alonso, Oxford University.

The present volume features an array of essays on some of Lídia Jorge best-known fiction. Special attention is devoted here to A Costa dos Murmúrios, undoubtedly her most celebrated novel at home and abroad. The importance of its central theme--a personal recollection of colonial wartime in Mozambique that engages in dialogue with the highly fictionalized account featured at the outset of the book--would amply suffice to justify the interest it has elicited. But the original treatment which Lídia Jorge affords to her chosen theme enables her to problematize a wide range of issues close to the heart of modern readers (be they Portuguese or not), including personal and collective identity, memory, history, language, and representation itself. Here in the present volume, this novel is the focus of three pieces that develop incisive and insightful parameters of analysis focusing on the role of memory and the portrayal of women to cast a new light on this seminal text.

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Introduction
Cláudia Pazos Alonso
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Articles

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(Re)Telling History: Lídia Jorge's O Dia dos Prodígios
Lígia Silva

33  

Sex and Success in Notícia da Cidade Silvestre: A Tale of Two Cities
Cláudia Pazos Alonso

49  

A Costa dos Murmúrios: Uma Ambiguidade Inesperada
Paula Jordão

61  

Memória Infinita
Paulo de Medeiros

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Back to Nietzsche: The Making of an Intellectual/Woman. Lídia Jorge's A Costa dos Murmúrios
Hilary Owen

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Donning the "Gift" of Representation: Lídia Jorge's A Instrumentalina
Ana Paula Ferreira

113  

Da Performance Como Retórica (e vice-versa)
Maria Lúcia Lepecki

 127  

Contingency and Loss in Marido e Outros Contos
Ellen W. Sapega

141  

Picturing Time: Some Photographs of Lídia Jorge
Memory Holloway

155  

O Romance e o Tempo Que Passa ou A Convenção do Mundo Imaginado
Lídia Jorge

167  

Interview with Lídia Jorge
Translated by Stephanie d'Orey assisted by John Brookesmith

175  

Selected Bibliography
Cláudia Pazos Alonso

Reviews

181  

Apresentação de O Vale da Paixão de Lídia Jorge, a 8 de Julho de 1998 na Livraria Barata, Lisboa.
Elfriede Engelmayer

184  

The Politics of Postmodernity.
Edited by James Good and       Irving Velody. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Hermínio Martins. Classe, Status e Poder. Lisbon: ICS, 1998.
Carlos Leone

189   

Rosa Lobato de Faria. O Romance de Cordélia.
Lisboa: Edições Asa, 1998.
Leonor Simas Almeida

194   

Luísa Costa Gomes. Educação para a Tristeza.
Lisboa: Editorial Presenca, 1998.
Maria Eduarda Vassallo Pereira

200   

Helder Macedo. Pedro e Paula.
Lisboa: Editorial Presença, 1998.
Isabel A. Ferreira

205   

George Monteiro. The Presence of Pessoa. English, American, and Southern African Literary Responses
.Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1998.
Silva Carvalho

Novel

215   

Fernando Pessoa & Co. Selected Poems by Fernando Pessoa.
Edited and Translated by Richard Zenith. New York: Grove Press, 1998
Elide V. Oliver

225   

Portugal heute. Politik. Wirtschaft. Kultur.
Edited by Dietrich Briesemeister and Axel Schönberger. Bibliotheca Ibero-Americana Vol. 64. Frankfurt, a.M.: Vervuert Verlag, 1997.
Paulo de Medeiros