CEAUL/ULICES - AS - Série III - nº 1 – 2010
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- The Powerless Diplomacy of the Abbé Correia da SerraPublication . Silva, Edgardo Medeiros, 1961-This paper examines the diplomatic activity of the Abbé Correia da Serra (1751-1823), the first Portuguese Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States, in connection with the use of American ports by privateers preying on Portugal’s commerce with Brazil, its South American colony. Despite his connections to the political and intellectual circles in the United States capital at the time, and the justness of Portuguese grievances against the American government in this matter, Correia da Serra’s remonstrance went unheeded in Washington, as they collided with the underlying principles of its foreign policy towards Latin America in the first quarter of the nineteenth century. The so-called Monroe Doctrine implied that the original American project of revolution could be applied to the whole continent and that it was the “manifest destiny” of the United States to assume the role of guardian of the Americas. American public opinion and its more radical press were not sympathetic to Old World monarchies, and so it was particularly difficult for Correia da Serra to prevent Brazilian revolutionaries from gathering support in the United States for their independence movement and for the American government to enforce the neutrality legislation approved by Congress to punish the activity of privateers.
- “Deafened by the roar of its own history”: Género, Memória e Identidade no romance Paradise, de Toni MorrisonPublication . Mancelos, João de, 1968-O romance Paradise (1998), da escritora afro-americana Toni Morrison, apresenta ao leitor duas comunidades distintas, para estabelecer um contraste entre modos de encarar o passado e de viver o presente. Uma das comunidades é Ruby, uma “all-Black town”, fundada por Exodusters; a outra é simplesmente conhecida por The Convent, um refúgio onde mulheres com experiências traumatizantes reconstroem solidariamente as suas vidas. Enquanto a primeira comunidade detém um carácter patriarcal, é guiada por leis severas, e por uma memória histórica manipulada pelo grupo no poder, a segunda é fundamentalmente matriarcal, vive para um presente sem regras, e para a cura das memórias traumáticas. Neste artigo analiso estas diferenças e conflitos, de acordo com os estudos de género e de identidade. Para tanto, recorro ao romance Paradise, a várias entrevistas concedidas por Morrison, e a estudos de diversos especialistas reputados.
- Six Feet Under: “Better Living Through Death”Publication . Duarte, José, 1984-This paper aims at analysing the way in which the American society understands death. For this purpose, I will use the television series Six Feet Under by Allan Ball (2000-2005) as an excellent portrait of the funeral industry that sees death as a business and as a spectacle. However, the series also presents other important issues, for instance, that before death, laughing is the best medicine, something that the viewer may find in several episodes. Furthermore, it shows that the Fisher’s funeral home seems to be different from the rest of the industry, since they try to find meaning in life through death. This is something that can be seen in the way they treat the living, as well as the dead. The Fisher Funeral Home is the place of understanding between the living and the dead, and a metaphor for the path that looks for the equilibrium between past and present, in order to improve the future.
- Happy birthday, Mr. Poe!Publication . Lima, Maria AntóniaConsiderações sobre a vida e obra de Edgar Allan Poe no bicentenário do seu nascimento.
- Triangulating Birmingham, Blackpool, Bombay: Gurinder Chadha’s "Bhaji on the Beach"Publication . Mendes, Ana Cristina Ferreira, 1975-"Bhaji on the Beach" is a 1994 road film, directed by Gurinder Chadha, centred on female characters who struggle in conflicts of gender, ethnicity and generational differences. Appropriating themselves of the public space of the English seaside resort Blackpool, each of these women reaches some sort of crossroads. Through the acknowledgment that identity is the outcome of negotiating difference, the film clearly illustrates a collusion of divided loyalties, weaving together the lives of this group of women from different backgrounds and generations. At Blackpool, the characters’ multiple inscribed identities, at the intersection of ethnic and gendered lines, place them in a position where they are forced to reconcile conflicting aspects of the British and Indian spheres they inhabit. It is at this juncture of transnational cultural flows that hybridised subjectivities-in-between coexist and are held in suspension.
- Semiótica Social e Gramática Visual: o sistema de significados interativosPublication . Carvalho, Flaviane Faria, 1984-Partindo do escopo teórico-metodológico da semiótica social e da gramática visual (Hodge & Kress, 1988; Kress & van Leeuwen, 1996; van Leeuwen, 2005), o presente artigo visa demonstrar a aplicabilidade dos significados interativos na comunicação visual, cujos recursos servem para constituir e manter interações entre os participantes representados e os produtores e espectadores da imagem. Para tanto, realiza-se um breve estudo de caso acerca da representação feita pelos principais diários portugueses de Cristiano Ronaldo, quando o jogador foi alvo da contratação mais cara de toda a história do futebol.
- Chegar a Casa: Safo, Stevenson, Eliot, LarkinPublication . Barragão, Fernando Pedro Cleto RodriguesA alusão de T. S. Eliot a um poema de Safo nas notas a The Waste Land serve de ponto de partida a um breve percurso por quatro autores, aos quais correspondem quatro perspectivas sobre a temática do “regresso a casa”. Além dos já mencionados Eliot e Safo, Robert Louis Stevenson e Philip Larkin compõem a lista. Propomo-nos demonstrar a coexistência entre estreitas relações intertextuais e pontos de vista divergentes, explicitando a tensão entre Estética e Ética própria de todo o fenómeno poético.
- Representações de Vícios e de Virtudes na Comédia de Costumes BritânicaPublication . Barbudo, Maria Isabel, 1950-Este ensaio pretende oferecer uma visão do percurso de consolidação identitária da Comédia de Costumes Britânica desde o seu advento, no período da Restauração (segunda metade do séc. XVII), até à segunda metade do séc. XX, através da interpelação de comédias consideradas paradigmáticas face ao contexto epocal em que se inscrevem. O corpus em análise inclui as seguintes comédias: The Way of the World (1700) de William Congreve, The School for Scandal (1777) de Richard Sheridan, An Ideal Husband (1895) de Oscar Wilde, Pygmalion (1914) de George Bernard Shaw, Hay Fever (1925) de Nöel Coward e Absurd Person Singular (1972) de Alan Ayckbourn. A análise proposta debruça-se, fundamentalmente, sobre os seguintes tópicos: 1) A plutocracia e a meritocracia: um diálogo. 2) Simulações e dissimulações, ou os jogos da mentira e da verdade. 3) O respeito/desrespeito pelo Outro: que Outro? A fim de debater tais questões dentro de uma perspectiva de Crítica Ética, é convocado o discurso filosófico e sociológico dos seguintes autores: Aristóteles, Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Nietzsche, Henri Bergson, Jean Baudrillard, Emmanuel Levinas, Zygmunt Bauman e Gilles Lipovetsky.
- Reified Bodies and Misplaced Identities in Elizabeth Bishop’s Narratives of Childhood MemoriesPublication . Almeida, Diana Vieira de Campos, 1972-Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) starts exploring autobiographical material in her writing while living in Brazil, during the 1950s and 60s, as if diaspora enabled her to deal with issues of personal identity more openly. Focusing on the autobiographical short stories “In the Village” (1953) and “The Country Mouse” (1961), this essay looks at the representative strategies the writer chooses to portray the child protagonist’s body. Bishop’s traumatic childhood and her dislocation between borders and rural/urban landscapes (the Nova Scotia countryside and Boston) are inscribed in the protagonists’ bodily figurations, framed by a distanced narrator that highlights the tensions caused by the writer’s maternal and paternal families’ differentiated socialization practices. I will examine: i) the rhetorical strategies used by Bishop to exert formal control over her disturbing memories, namely through the reification of some of the characters’ bodies; ii) the deconstruction of the Great War victory narratives, with their strict gender distinctions. Considered the main index of personal identity in these fictional universes, the body will thus be read as a textual configuration that reflects the official discourses of citizenship in North America (Canada and the U.S.), and simultaneously resists these hegemonic proposals of identity, reclaiming its subjectivity.
- Rationales of Verse: Poe and Other CriticsPublication . Barragão, Fernando Pedro Cleto Rodrigues“The Rationale of Verse” is probably among the less widely known theoretic/critical essays by Edgar Allan Poe. Nevertheless, it is a text whose rediscovery matters due to the pertinence of most of Poe’s conceptions regarding topics such as prosody and the correct scansion of a poem (if there is such a thing). Poe’s essay is also surprising because of the author’s proposal of a new method for scanning verse based on a musical notation. In this context, other authors such as Gerard Manley Hopkins and Ezra Pound are mentioned as theorists and critics with ideas converging with Poe’s. On a negative note, Poe’s fail to recognize distinctive features of non-English prosodies is exposed with the help of Mikhail Gasparov’s investigations.