Comparative world literatures in portuguese

• Type: Chapter or Part of a Book
• Date: 2023

Authors

Buescu, Helena Carvalhão (Author) Other; Valente, Simão (Author) FLUP

Book

Title: The Routledge companion to world literature

2º Edition

Pages: 379-387

ISBN: 9781032075389

Electronic ISBN: 9781003230663

Publisher: Routledge

Other information

DOI: 10.4324/9781003230663-47

Abstract (EN): In order to contextualize the case of comparative world literatures written in Portuguese, this chapter begins with a brief example of a project Helena Carvalhao Buescu began in 2010 and which came to completion in 2020, an anthology of comparative world literature in Portuguese entitled Literatura-Mundo: Perspectivas em Portugues. The case of Portuguese-speaking literatures is paradigmatic in the European context because it shares in the characteristics of a post-colonial and post-imperial literature, and because throughout Portuguese history, and cultural and political dislocations have left their traces in its literature, a characteristic it shares with literatures of several other European countries. Textualism is also the cornerstone of comparative literature. Our emphasis on the necessity of textualism as a regulated balance between close and distant reading arises from some of the changes that literary studies have witnessed in the last twenty years.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific