CALL FOR PAPERS - v. 37, n. 3 (jul. - sep. 2026) DOSSIER: Between the shores of the atlantic: literary and cultural dialogues among Brazil and Portugal
CALL FOR PAPERS - v. 37, n. 3 (jul. - sep. 2026) DOSSIER: Between the shores of the atlantic: literary and cultural dialogues among Brazil and Portugal
CHAMADA ALETRIA - v. 37, n. 3 (jul. - sep. 2027)
Organizers:
Marcia Jaschke (UFMG)
Mirhiane Mendes de Abreu (UNIFESP)
Raquel S. Madanêlo Souza (UFMG)
Deadline for submission of proposals: December 4, 2026
Between the shores of the atlantic: literary and cultural dialogues among Brazil and Portugal
Camilo Castelo Branco featured a large number of Brazilians in his novels. Machado de Assis offered incisive critiques of Eça de Queirós’s Primo Basílio. In the 20th century, Graça Aranha asserted in his lecture “O Espírito Moderno” (1925) that we were not the “morgue of Portugal,” and, at that moment of intense national self-assertion, tempers flared. José Osório de Oliveira published the first Brief History of Brazilian Literature (1939) in Portugal. Cecília Meireles selected The New Poets of Portugal (1944) from Portuguese magazines. The poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade gave voice to the Portuguese modernist in his “Sonnet of the False Fernando Pessoa.” Meanwhile, the famous creator of heteronymy sent his fictional author Ricardo Reis to Brazil. Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen emphasized, in her “Poema a Helena Lanari,” her fondness for the sound of “Brazilian Portuguese,” which she believed could make the “coconut tree” “more vegetal.” Countless examples could be cited here to characterize the multiple nuances that permeate the intercultural and literary relations between Brazil and Portugal over the last two centuries.
The aim of this dossier is to foster debate and provide current reflections on the different layers of the complex relations between the modern and contemporary literatures of Portugal and Brazil.
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