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This book explores the relationship between Portuguese literature and the environment from medieval times to the present. Contributors examine how Portuguese writers engage with the environment not only to prompt social, political, or philosophical reflections on human society, but also to learn from non-humans.
List of contents
Introduction
Chapter 1. A Portuguese Approach to the Environmental Crisis
Chapter 2. Environment, Nature and Landscape: Conceptual Affinities and Distinctions in the Portuguese Context
Chapter 3. Inter-, Multi- and Trans-Disciplinarity: New Horizons for Portuguese Environmental History
Chapter 4. Elemental Portugal
Chapter 5. "Songs of Stance"
Chapter 6. Portuguese Environmental Perceptions of Brazil in the Sixteenth Century
Chapter 7. Nature's Literary Lessons: Júlio Dinis on Literature and the Environment
Chapter 8. "On Borrowed 'Women's Time': Ecological Female Bodies and the Re-Engendering of Nature in Eça de Queirós's A Cidade e as Serras"
Chapter 9. Hunters of Empire: João Teixeira de Vasconcelos's Colonial Memoirs of African Hunting
Chapter 10. Environmentalizing Fernando Pessoa's Modernism
Chapter 11. The Posthuman Poetry of Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen
Chapter 12. The Environment and José Saramago's Literary Program in Journey to Portugal.
In Pursuit of Portugal's History and Culture
About the author
Victor K. Mendes is associate professor of Portuguese, director of the PhD program in Luso-Afro-Brazilian studies and theory, and director of the Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture/Tagus Press at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.
Patrícia Vieira is associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese, comparative literature, and film and media studies at Georgetown University and associate research professor at the Center for Social Studies (CES) at the University of Coimbra.
Summary
This book explores the relationship between Portuguese literature and the environment from medieval times to the present. Contributors examine how Portuguese writers engage with the environment not only to prompt social, political, or philosophical reflections on human society, but also to learn from non-humans.
