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9. Post-Imperial Camões

Guest editor: João R. Figueiredo, Universidade de Lisboa.

It has been more difficult to steal Camões from this critic [Faria e Sousa] than to steal him from the Portuguese. The former is not necessarily a goal in itself (though, again fortunately, it is not up to me to read the minds of all Camões scholars). The latter is most desirable. Hence the importance of a colloquium on post-imperial Camões, in English and in America. It is fitting to recall that, ironically, Faria e Sousa’s commentaries were written in Spanish and published in Spain, when Portugal was under Spanish rule. It is not a question of now showing Portugal (or its surrogate, the Portuguese language at its most sublime) to the world, as politicians would say, no matter the ideology they profess, but of allowing Camões to be stolen from the Portuguese. In the title, “post-imperial�? is to be read broadly, in the sense that the persons who contributed papers to the colloquium engage in a reflection about the role of Camões’s poetry after the demise of the empire, that they do not care about the burden of the empire in Camões scholarship, or simply that the poet belongs to whoever wants to make him his or her own property. This issue of Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies gathers a selection of those papers, read and discussed at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth on October 11-12, 2002.

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Acknowledgements

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Introduction
João R. Figueiredo
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Articles

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Camões the Sonneteer
Helen Vendler

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Second Attempt
Miguel Tamen

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“Bárbora escrava??: Canon, beauty and color: An embarrassing contradiction
Rita Marnoto

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Conceptual Oppositions in the Poetry of Camões
Helder Macedo

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Conceptual Oppositions in the Poetry of Camões
Helder Macedo

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Post-Imperial Bacchus: The politics of literary criticism in Camões studies 1940-2001
Hélio J. S. Alves

 107  

Africa and the Epic Imagination of Camões
Josiah Blackmore

117  

Sob o Signo de Deucalião
Eduardo Lourenço

121  

Lusotropical Romance: Camões, Gilberto Freyre, and the Isle of Love
Anna Klobucka

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Leonard Bacon’s Camões: “Five Years of Monomania�?
George Monteiro

153  

Comic Readings
João R. Figueiredo

165  

The View from Almada Hill: Myths of Nationhood in Camões and William Julius Mickle
Lawrence Lipking

177  

Milton and Camões: Reinventing the Old Man
Balachandra Rajan

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First Encounter: the Christian-Hindu Confusion When the Portuguese Reached India
Michael Murrin

205  

Borges and Camões
Translated by William Baer

Reviews

217  

Camões and the English
George Monteiro

223  

Peter Russell. Prince Henry ‘the Navigator’: A Life.
New Haven: Yale UP, 2000.
Liam M. Brockey

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Harold Bloom. How to Read and Why.
New York: Scribner, 2000.
Cristina Alberto

231  

Peter Brooks. Troubling Confessions. Speaking Guilt in Law and Literature.
Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, 2000.
Inês Morais

235  

Edward W. Said. Reflections on Exile and Other Essays.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard UP, 2001.
Rui Estrada

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Carlito Azevedo. Sublunar. Rio de Janeiro: 7Letras, 2001.
Silviano Santiago