A Heaven of Their Own
Heresy and Heterodoxy in Portuguese Literature from the Eighteenth Century to the Present
(Sprache: Englisch)
Over the centuries, Portugal has been shaped by waves of occupation and religious transformation. This book explores texts dating from the eighteenth century to the present in which the encounter between Paganism, Judaism and Islam, on the one hand, and the...
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Over the centuries, Portugal has been shaped by waves of occupation and religious transformation. This book explores texts dating from the eighteenth century to the present in which the encounter between Paganism, Judaism and Islam, on the one hand, and the Christian status quo, on the other, illustrates the former's resistance to absolute erasure.
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Religious conflict has existed for as long as humanity has been capable of articulating the experience of faith. Belief in a higher power - whatever its nature - has tended to go hand in hand with the desire to force, or at least persuade, the rest of the world to agree with the believer. Portugal is a country shaped by successive waves of occupation over the centuries, and by the religious transformations these have entailed. Indigenous Lusitanians and Celtiberians withstood invasions by the Romans, Visigoths and North African Moors, as well as visitations by Jews, Phoenicians and others, but all were eventually killed, driven out or obliged to convert to Christianity. This book investigates texts dating from the eighteenth century to the present and set in periods ranging from the third century BC to the present day, in which the encounter between Paganism, Judaism and Islam, on the one hand, and what in due course became the dominant Christian status quo, on the other, illustrates the former's resistance to absolute erasure. The study focuses in particular on women as the locus of dissent at the heart of national and sexual politics.
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CONTENTS: Religious Difference in Portuguese Literature: God's Infinite Variety - Pagans One and All: Teresa de Mello Breyner and Domingos Monteiro - Moors on the Shore (Há Mouros na Costa): Alexandre Herculano and Helia Correia - The Jew in You: Camilo Castelo Branco and Miguel Torga - Standing in My Relative's Shoes: Christianity on a Crucible: Jose Saramago - In the End Was No Word: Old Tragedies for Modern Times.
Autoren-Porträt von Maria Manuel Lisboa
Maria Manuel Lisboa is Professor of Portuguese Literature and Culture at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. She specializes in Portuguese and Brazilian literature from the nineteenth century to the present and has also published on the visual artist Paula Rego and the theme of apocalypse in English literature and film. Her work has won two prizes: the Prémio do Grémio Literário (Portugal) and the Prémio Itamaraty (Brazil).
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Maria Manuel Lisboa
- 2018, Neuausgabe, XIV, 344 Seiten, 1 Abbildungen, Maße: 15 x 22,5 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers
- ISBN-10: 3034319622
- ISBN-13: 9783034319621
- Erscheinungsdatum: 31.08.2018
Sprache:
Englisch
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