Beyond Tordesillas: New Approaches to Comparative Luso-Hispanic Studies

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Beyond Tordesillas: New Approaches to Comparative Luso-Hispanic Studies is the first volume of its kind to be published in English. Bringing together young and established scholars, it seeks to consolidate the vital work being done on the connections between the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking worlds on both sides of the Atlantic. The volume builds from an understanding that Iberian and Latin American cultures are inherently transoceanic—having engaged in earlier eras in parallel, and sometimes interconnected, colonization projects around the world and more recently in postcolonial evaluations of these practices and their legacies. The jumping-off point for Beyond Tordesillas is the critic Jorge Schwartz’s evocative call to arms, “Down with Tordesillas!” In this groundbreaking essay, Schwartz looks to the imaginary line created by the Treaty of Tordesillas (1494), which divided the known world into Spanish and Portuguese spheres of influence, to stand in for generations of literary and cultural noncommunication between the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking spheres, and their attendant academic disciplines. This volume’s contributions range topically across continents, from the Iberian Peninsula to Latin American countries. They also range across genres, with studies that analyze fictional narrative, music, performance, and visual culture. Beyond Tordesillas forcefully challenges the disciplinary—and indeed, arbitrary—boundaries that for too long have separated Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian studies. Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Bridging Tordesillas • Robert Patrick Newcomb and Richard A. Gordon PART I: LUSO-HISPANIC STUDIES AND RELATED LINES OF INQUIRY: A SERIES OF PROPOSALS 1 Portuguese and the Emergence of Iberian Studies • Pedro Schacht Pereira 2 The Case for Ad Hoc Transnationalism • Héctor Hoyos 3 Queer Spanish, Queer Portuguese: A Series of Research Proposals • David William Foster 4 Before Tordesilhas, and Beyond: The Politics of Native Agency across the Americas • Tracy Devine Guzmán 5 “Blister you all”: Sérgio Buarque de Holanda and the Calibanic Genealogy • Pedro Meira Monteiro PART II: WRITTEN FICTIONAL NARRATIVE: BRAZIL AND SPANISH-SPEAKING LATIN AMERICA 6 The Literary Revenant in a Latin American Comparative Context • Robert Moser 7 Borges, Clarice, and the Development of Latin America’s “New Narrative” • Earl E. Fitz 8 Mapping Citizenship in Luiz Ruffato’s Inferno provisório and Guillermo Saccomanno’s El pibe • Leila Lehnen PART III: LUSO-HISPANIC POETRY, MUSIC, AND EXPRESSIVE CULTURE 9 The Parábola of the Latin American Avant-Gardes • Alfredo Bosi 10 Brazilian Symbolism and Hispanic American Modernismo: Resonance across the Luso-Hispanic Divide • Sarah Moody 11 Shared Passages: Spanish American–Brazilian Links in Contemporary Poetry • Charles A. Perrone 12 Cantigas de amigo: Galicia and Brazil in the Lusophone Musical Space • Frederick Moehn PART IV: LUSO-HISPANIC CINEMA, PERFORMANCE, AND VISUAL CULTURE 13 Cartography of Dissidence: In/visibility and Urban Display in Luso-Hispanic Street Projects • Tina Escaja 14 Memory, Youth, and Regimes of Violence in Recent Hispanic and Lusophone Cinemas • Leslie L. Marsh 15 Cinema in Totalitarian Iberia: Propaganda and Persuasion under Salazar and Franco • Patrícia Vieira 16 Globalization and Documentary Film: Luso-Hispanic Reflections • Michael J. Lazzara List of Contributors Index