Abstract of “Admirable but Not Imitable: Brazilian Interpretations of the United States, 1910-1960” by Benjamin Legg, PhD., Brown University, May 2016. This dissertation examines texts …
This dissertation analyzes literary representations of Brazilian public works to explore questions about power and narrative. It explores how, from the 1900s through the 1970s, …
“Dissident Desires: Race, Sex and Abolition in 19th Century Brazilian Literature” is a study of the interplay of sex, race and deviancy in the construction …
A This dissertation explores, through colonial and postcolonial literatures and cinemas, the theoretical relationship between the formation of individual identity and the reproduction of meaning …
The current thesis is an attempt to interpret the Portuguese New State and its Brazilian counterpart between 1933-1945 from literary and cultural perspectives. By dissecting …
This dissertation considers the enduring influence of patriarchal discourse on Brazilian national identity and especially the relationship between fathers, family models, and socially rooted authoritarianism …
This dissertation is a study of structures, images and performance of fetishism as cultural and literary strategies in the theater of Nelson Rodrigues. It explores …
Ao longo de séculos, o Estado português recorreu a diferentes formas de representação e construção do seu Império em África. Este estudo foca uma dessas …
My dissertation, Latino-Americanizando o Brasil: Intercâmbios Intelectuais e a Transnacionalização da Literatura Brasileira”, analyzes how the exchanges between Brazilian and Hispanic American intellectuals during the …
This dissertation analyses the political thought of three Portuguese writers, Fernando Namora, Jose Cardoso Pires, and Urbano Tavares Rodrigues, in their fictional work and in …
This dissertation aims to analyze, mainly through a performance studies approach, socio-political and cultural issues in three Brazilian contemporary novels, featuring professional writers as narrators. …
This dissertation focuses on the dialectic between Portugal’s sense of identity and belonging in the European Union (EU) and the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries (CPLP). …
This dissertation explores the interactions between the experience of travel and the creation of narrated selves, as posited by Paul Ricoeur, in the fictional and …
This dissertation analyzes the emergence of an Afro-Brazilian racial consciousness from 1955 to 1988 vis-� -vis the lyrics and other writings by four composers of …
O estudo realizado nesta dissertação debruça-se sobre a relação incontestável entre o escritor e o militante político no contexto revolucionário africano, por via do caso …