Description
Book SynopsisThis book investigates the spaces of interaction between Portuguese and Brazilian modernistsspecifically Oswald de Andrade, Augusto de Campos and Haroldo de Campos, Ronald de Carvalho, António Ferro, Fernando Pessoa, Mário de Sá-Carneiroand their interpretation of nation. Most importantly, the way in which their work echoes and transfigures the Ulysses myth, to be termed Portuguese Ulyssism by Brazilian Gilberto Freyre in his reading of Luís Vaz de Camões's epic poem The Lusiads, is analyzed, underlining the presence of a postcolonial Ulysses in the Lusophone world. The trope of the shipwreck is central to the creative production of these Atlantic modernists who, outside of their respective national literatures, interact beyond the territories of nation-states through texts on exile, national identity, and colonialism.
In addition to the renowned The Lusiads, the texts studied include two issues of the Luso-Brazilian quarterly Orpheu (1915) an
Table of Contents
Introduction – A Mute Hero Called Ulysses and the Nation in Modernity – Fernando Pessoa’s Heteronyms: A Nationhood of ‘Invisible Translators’ – Brazilian Modernists, Portuguese Modernists, and Their Spaces of Interaction – The Anthropophagic Agenda of Modernism in the Work of Haroldo and Augusto de Campos: A Translational Ulyssism in ‘Finismundo: a última viagem/Finismundo: The Last Voyage’ and Galáxias/Galaxies – Conclusion – Bibliography.
