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A Heaven of Their Own - Heresy and Heterodoxy in Portuguese Literature from the Eighteenth Century to the Present

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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.

About the author










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).

Product details

Authors Maria Manuel Lisboa
Publisher Peter Lang
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 31.08.2018
 
EAN 9783034319621
ISBN 978-3-0-3431962-1
No. of pages 344
Dimensions 150 mm x 19 mm x 225 mm
Weight 504 g
Illustrations 1 Abb.
Series Reconfiguring Identities in the Portuguese-Speaking World
Reconfiguring Identities in the Portuguese-Speaking World
Subject Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics

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