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By Fernando Arenas

The heavily entwined histories of Portugal and Brazil stay key references for knowing developments-past and present-in both nation. for that reason, Fernando Arenas considers Portugal and Brazil on the subject of each other during this exploration of fixing definitions of nationhood, subjectivity, and utopias in either cultures. analyzing the 2 international locations' shared language and histories in addition to their cultural, social, and political issues of divergence, Arenas pursues those definitive alterations during the nation-states of literature, highbrow inspiration, pop culture, and political discourse. either Brazil and Portugal are topic to the industrial, political, and cultural forces of postmodern globalization. Arenas analyzes responses to those traits in modern writers together with Jos? Saramago, Caio Fernando Abreu, Maria Isabel Barreno, Verg?lio Ferreira, Clarice Lispector, and Maria Gabriela Llansol. eventually, Utopias of Otherness exhibits how those writers have redefined the idea that of nationhood, not just via their funding in utopian or emancipatory reasons reminiscent of Marxist revolution, women's liberation, or sexual revolution, but in addition through transferring their cognizance to replacement modes of conceiving the moral and political nation-states. Fernando Arenas is affiliate professor within the division of Spanish and Portuguese reviews on the collage of Minnesota. he's coeditor (with Susan Canty Quinlan) of Lusosex (Minnesota, 2002).

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The epic poem was not only a triumphant celebration of empire but also a melancholic requiem, signaling its demise. In fact, Os Lusíadas appears subtly ambiguous; underneath the heroic clamor one can also hear dissonant voices of those who question the nature of the epic enterprise. Meanwhile, there were also two other key literary works from the period that radically undermined the claims for Portuguese (or European or Christian) moral and cultural superiority over that of other world civilizations (Fernão Mendes Pinto’s Peregrinação [Peregrination], 1614) or that reveal the precariously human dimensions of maritime expansion (Bernardo Gomes de Brito’s História Trágico-Marítima [The Tragic History of the Sea], published in Portuguese for the first time in 1735–36).

Here the focus is on the ontological status of “utopia” in a contemporary world where various political and social utopias have been put severely into question. A utopia is understood here as a vision or imagining of a future better world. However, this chapter argues that there has been an important shift from grand utopian visions to smaller utopian imaginings of a better world. The authors studied here suggest that in spite of the exhaustion or weakening of various utopias that governed the human imaginary nationally and transnationally until the late twentieth century—those of Marxism, Christianity, women’s liberation, or sexual revolution—certain strands of utopian thinking are still necessary for the survival of humanity.

The epic poem was not only a triumphant celebration of empire but also a melancholic requiem, signaling its demise. In fact, Os Lusíadas appears subtly ambiguous; underneath the heroic clamor one can also hear dissonant voices of those who question the nature of the epic enterprise. Meanwhile, there were also two other key literary works from the period that radically undermined the claims for Portuguese (or European or Christian) moral and cultural superiority over that of other world civilizations (Fernão Mendes Pinto’s Peregrinação [Peregrination], 1614) or that reveal the precariously human dimensions of maritime expansion (Bernardo Gomes de Brito’s História Trágico-Marítima [The Tragic History of the Sea], published in Portuguese for the first time in 1735–36).

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