Luso-Brazilian Review publishes interdisciplinary scholarship on Portuguese, Brazilian, and Lusophone African cultures, with special emphasis on scholarly works in literature, history, and the social sciences. Each issue of the Luso-Brazilian Review includes articles and book reviews, which may be written in either English or Portuguese.
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Articles
In Memory of B. J. Barickman: Historian, Teacher, Mentor Martha S. Santos Luso-Brazilian Rev. May 2017 54:1-8 doi:10.3368/lbr.54.1.1 http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/54/1/1
The June 2013 Uprisings and the Waning of Lulismo in Brazil: Of Antagonism, Contradiction, and Oxymoron Idelber Avelar Luso-Brazilian Rev. May 2017 54:9-27 doi:10.3368/lbr.54.1.9 http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/54/1/9.abstract
Herança escravista e forma poética no Brasil: As apropriações do gênero do Marco por um cantador afrodescendente, Joaquim Francisco Santana (1877–1917) Paulo Teixeira Iumatti Luso-Brazilian Rev. May 2017 54:28-54 doi:10.3368/lbr.54.1.28 http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/54/1/28.abstract
Woman-Body-Paint: Helena Almeida and the Visual Inscription of Sexual Difference Maria Luísa Coelho Luso-Brazilian Rev. May 2017 54:55-77 doi:10.3368/lbr.54.1.55 http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/54/1/55.abstract
Clean Break, Tangled Lives: December 1961 in the Goan Short Stories “Rucmá, a mulherzinha de Salém” by Maria Elsa da Rocha and “Guerra” by Sheela Kolambkar Paul Melo e Castro Luso-Brazilian Rev. May 2017 54:78–101 doi:10.3368/lbr.54.1.78 http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/54/1/78.abstract
Drummond: A arquitetura em ruínas Fabio Cesar Alves Luso-Brazilian Rev. May 2017 54:102–118 doi:10.3368/lbr.54.1.102 http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/54/1/102.abstract
“Tudo se entronca”: Mário de Andrade and Luis Quintanilla’s Epistolary Friendship Odile Cisneros Luso-Brazilian Rev. May 2017 54:119–137 doi:10.3368/lbr.54.1.119 http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/54/1/119.abstract
“Meu amigo e comborço”: Dimensões homoeróticas do Dom Casmurro de Machado de Assis Marcelo da Rocha Lima Diego Luso-Brazilian Rev. May 2017 54:138–158 doi:10.3368/lbr.54.1.138 http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/54/1/138.abstract
Contributors
Luso-Brazilian Rev. May 2017 54:159–160 doi:10.3368/lbr.54.1.159 http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/54/1/159
Books Reviewed
Weinstein, Barbara. The Color of Modernity: São Paulo and the Making of Race and Nation in Brazil. Durham: Duke UP, 2015. 458 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Paulina Alberto Luso-Brazilian Rev. May 2017 54:E1–E4 doi:10.3368/lbr.54.1.E1 http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/54/1/E1
Machado, Maria Helena P. T., and Celso Thomas Castilho, orgs. Tornando-se livre: Agentes históricos e lutas sociais no processo de abolição. São Paulo: Edusp, 2015. 480 pp. Notes. References. Figures. Contributors. Roderick J. Barman Luso-Brazilian Rev. May 2017 54:E5 doi:10.3368/lbr.54.1.E5 http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/54/1/E5
Bosi, Alfredo. Brazil and the Dialectic of Colonization. Trans. Robert Patrick Newcomb. Urbana, IL: U of Illinois P, 2015. xiv + 373 pp. Notes. Index. Kátia C. Bezerra Luso-Brazilian Rev. May 2017 54:E6–E7 doi:10.3368/lbr.54.1.E6 http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/54/1/E6
Bishop-Sanchez, Kathryn. Creating Carmen Miranda: Race, Camp, and Transnational Stardom. Nashville: Vanderbilt UP, 2016. xiii + 290 pp. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Filmography. Index. Dário Borim, Jr. Luso-Brazilian Rev. May 2017 54:E8–E10 doi:10.3368/lbr.54.1.E8 http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/54/1/E8
Penglase, R. Ben. Living with Insecurity in a Brazilian Favela: Urban Violence and Daily Life. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 2014. xi + 210 pp. Notes. References. Index. John Burdick Luso-Brazilian Rev. May 2017 54:E11–E13 doi:10.3368/lbr.54.1.E11 http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/54/1/E11
King, Edward. Virtual Orientalism in Brazilian Culture. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. ix + 214 pp. Figures. Notes. Works Cited. Index. Juan David Cadena B. Luso-Brazilian Rev. May 2017 54:E14–E16 doi:10.3368/lbr.54.1.E14 http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/54/1/E14
Fitz, Earl E. Machado de Assis and Female Characterization: The Novels. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP, 2015. xv + 235 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Marcelo Diego Luso-Brazilian Rev. May 2017 54:E17–E19 doi:10.3368/lbr.54.1.E17 http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/54/1/E17
Pardue, Derek. Cape Verde, Let’s Go: Creole Rappers and Citizenship in Portugal. Urbana, IL: U of Illinois P, 2015. 192 pp. Illustrations. Notes. References. Index. Falina Enriquez Luso-Brazilian Rev. May 2017 54:E20–E21 doi:10.3368/lbr.54.1.E20 http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/54/1/E20
Minchillo, Carlos Cortez. Erico Verissimo, escritor do mundo: Circulação literária, cosmopolitismo e relações interamericanas. São Paulo: Edusp, 2015. 320 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Luís Augusto Fischer Luso-Brazilian Rev. May 2017 54:E22–E24 doi:10.3368/lbr.54.1.E22 http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/54/1/E22
Jackson, K. David. Machado de Assis: A Literary Life. New Haven, CT: Yale UP, 2015. 336 pp. Earl E. Fitz Luso-Brazilian Rev. May 2017 54:E25–E28 doi:10.3368/lbr.54.1.E25 http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/54/1/E25
Rosas-Moreno, Tania Cantrell. News and Novela in Brazilian Media: Fact, Fiction, and National Identity. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2014. x + 149 pp. References. Index. Vanessa Fitzgibbon Luso-Brazilian Rev. May 2017 54:E29–E31 doi:10.3368/lbr.54.1.E29 http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/54/1/E29
Sousa, Ronald W. On Emerging from Hyper-Nation: Saramago’s “Historical” Trilogy. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue UP, 2014. 196 pp. Notes. Works Cited. Index. David G. Frier Luso-Brazilian Rev. May 2017 54:E32–E34 doi:10.3368/lbr.54.1.E32 http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/54/1/E32
Roller, Heather F. Amazonian Routes: Indigenous Mobility and Colonial Communities in Northern Brazil. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 2014. xx + 342 pp. Illustrations. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. Seth W. Garfield Luso-Brazilian Rev. May 2017 54:E35–E36 doi:10.3368/lbr.54.1.E35 http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/54/1/E35
Beattie, Peter M. Punishment in Paradise: Race, Slavery, Human Rights, and a Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Penal Colony. Durham: Duke UP, 2015. 337 pp. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Marc A. Hertzman Luso-Brazilian Rev. May 2017 54:E37–E39 doi:10.3368/lbr.54.1.E37 http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/54/1/E37
Denyer Willis, Graham. The Killing Consensus: Police, Organized Crime, and the Regulation of Life and Death in Urban Brazil. Oakland, CA: U of California P, 2015. 192 pp. Illustrations. References. Index. Martine Jean Luso-Brazilian Rev. May 2017 54:E40–E41 doi:10.3368/lbr.54.1.E40 http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/54/1/E40
Tupinambá de Ulhôa, Martha, Cláudia Azevedo, and Felipe Trotta, eds. Made in Brazil: Studies in Popular Music. New York: Routledge, 2015. 249 pp. Illustrations. Glossary. Index. Brendan Loula Luso-Brazilian Rev. May 2017 54:E42–E43 doi:10.3368/lbr.54.1.E42 http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/54/1/E42
Peres, Marcos Flamínio. As minas e a agulheta: romance e história em As minas de prata, de José de Alencar. Belo Horizonte: Editora UFMG, 2015. 124 pp. Wilton José Marques Luso-Brazilian Rev. May 2017 54:E44–E45 doi:10.3368/lbr.54.1.E44 http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/54/1/E44
Baltrusch, Burghard, ed. “O que transforma o mundo é a necessidade e não a utopia”: Estudos sobre a utopia e a ficção em José Saramago. Berlin: Frank & Timme, 2014. 278 pp. Contributors. Bibliography. Index. Paulo de Medeiros Luso-Brazilian Rev. May 2017 54:E46–E47 doi:10.3368/lbr.54.1.E46 http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/54/1/E46
Atkin, Rhian. Lisbon Revisited: Urban Masculinities in Twentieth-Century Portuguese Fiction. London: Legenda, 2014. 196 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Rex P. Nielson Luso-Brazilian Rev. May 2017 54:E48–E50 doi:10.3368/lbr.54.1.E48 http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/54/1/E48
Ferreira, Glória and Paulo Herkenhoff, eds. Mário Pedrosa Primary Documents. Trans. Stephen Berg. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2015. 464 pp. Figures. References. Chronology. Contributors. Index. Simone Osthoff Luso-Brazilian Rev. May 2017 54:E51–E54 doi:10.3368/lbr.54.1.E51 http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/54/1/E51
McCann, Bryan. Hard Times in the Marvelous City: From Dictatorship to Democracy in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2014. xi + 249 pp. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Ben Penglase Luso-Brazilian Rev. May 2017 54:E55–E57 doi:10.3368/lbr.54.1.E55 http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/54/1/E55
Morgan, Zachary R. Legacy of the Lash: Race and Corporal Punishment in the Brazilian Navy and the Atlantic World. Bloomington, IN: Indiana UP, 2014. xiv + 320 pp. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Álvaro Pereira do Nascimento Luso-Brazilian Rev. May 2017 54:E58–E61 doi:10.3368/lbr.54.1.E58 http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/54/1/E58
Gray de Castro, Mariana. Fernando Pessoa’s Shakespeare: The Invention of the Heteronyms. London: Critical, Cultural and Communications Press, 2015. 270 pp. Notes. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. Jerónimo Pizarro Luso-Brazilian Rev. May 2017 54:E62–E63 doi:10.3368/lbr.54.1.E62 http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/54/1/E62
Rosa, Cristina F. Brazilian Bodies and Their Choreographies of Identification: Swing Nation. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. x + 281 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Alessandra Santos Luso-Brazilian Rev. May 2017 54:E64–E65 doi:10.3368/lbr.54.1.E64 http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/54/1/E64
Gordon, Richard A. Cinema, Slavery, and Brazilian Nationalism. Austin: U of Texas P, 2015. xi + 272 pp. Illustrations. Notes. Works Cited. Index. Lisa Shaw Luso-Brazilian Rev. May 2017 54:E66–E68 doi:10.3368/lbr.54.1.E66 http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/54/1/E66
Carter, Miguel, ed. Challenging Social Inequality: The Landless Rural Workers Movement and Agrarian Reform in Brazil. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2015. xxix + 494 pp. Illustrations. Bibliography. Contributors. Index. Cliff Welch Luso-Brazilian Rev. May 2017 54:E69–E71 doi:10.3368/lbr.54.1.E69 http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/54/1/E69