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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Articles
Figurations of the Negra in Gonçalves Crespo and Caetano da Costa Alegre Robert Patrick NewcombLuso-Brazilian Rev. January 2020 56:1-19 doi:10.3368/lbr.56.2.1 http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/56/2/1.abstract
A Physically Powerful Woman: Luzia-Homem by Domingos Olímpio Carolina Castellanos GonellaLuso-Brazilian Rev. January 2020 56:20-41 doi:10.3368/lbr.56.2.20 http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/56/2/20.abstract
Notes on Curatorship, Cultural Programming and Coloniality in Portugal Carlos Garrido Castellano and Marta LançaLuso-Brazilian Rev. January 2020 56:42-63 doi:10.3368/lbr.56.2.42 http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/56/2/42.abstract
Limit and Transgression in Hilda Hilst’s Pornographic Trilogy Derek BeaudryLuso-Brazilian Rev. January 2020 56:64-83 doi:10.3368/lbr.56.2.64 http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/56/2/64.abstract
Defusing Brazil’s Woman Militant: Historical Fiction and the “Correction” of Female Masculinity in Olga and O que é isso, companheiro? Dana A. MeredithLuso-Brazilian Rev. January 2020 56:84-104 doi:10.3368/lbr.56.2.84 http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/56/2/84.abstract
The “Beauty of Inequality” and the Mythos of the Medieval: Brazil and the Forging of Global Catholic Traditionalism Benjamin CowanLuso-Brazilian Rev. January 2020 56:105-129 doi:10.3368/lbr.56.2.105 http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/56/2/105.abstract
Review Essay
Reis, Carlos. Dicionário de Estudos Narrativos. Coimbra: Almedina, 2018. 582 pp. Ana Teresa PeixinhoLuso-Brazilian Rev. January 2020 56:131-135 doi:10.3368/lbr.56.2.131 http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/56/2/131
Contributors
Contributors Luso-Brazilian Rev. January 2020 56:137-138 doi:10.3368/lbr.56.2.137 http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/56/2/137
Books Reviewed
Mitchell, Sean T. Constellations of Inequality: Space, Race & Utopia in Brazil. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2017. 255 pp. Aaron AnsellLuso-Brazilian Rev. January 2020 56:E1-E3 doi:10.3368/lbr.56.2.E1 http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/56/2/E1
Sarzynski, Sarah. Revolution in the Terra do Sol: The Cold War in Brazil. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2018. 352 pp. Theresa BachmannLuso-Brazilian Rev. January 2020 56:E4-E5 doi:10.3368/lbr.56.2.E4 http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/56/2/E4
Green, James N. Exile within Exiles: Herbert Daniel, Gay Brazilian Revolutionary. Durham: Duke UP, 2018. 334 pp. Kristal BivonaLuso-Brazilian Rev. January 2020 56:E6-E7 doi:10.3368/lbr.56.2.E6 http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/56/2/E6
Piçarra, Maria do Carmo and Teresa Castro, eds. (Re)imagining African Independence: Film, Visual Arts and the Fall of the Portuguese Empire. Bern: Peter Lang, 2017. xvi + 287 pp. Elena BrugioniLuso-Brazilian Rev. January 2020 56:E8-E10 doi:10.3368/lbr.56.2.E8 http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/56/2/E8
Silvers, Michael B. Voices of Drought: The Politics of Music and Environment in Northeastern Brazil. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2018. 212 pp. Elise DietrichLuso-Brazilian Rev. January 2020 56:E11-E13 doi:10.3368/lbr.56.2.E11 http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/56/2/E11
Niyi Afolabi. Ilê Aiyê in Brazil and the Reinvention of Africa. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 288 pp. Christopher DunnLuso-Brazilian Rev. January 2020 56:E14-E16 doi:10.3368/lbr.56.2.E14 http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/56/2/E14
Ramos, Ana Flávia Cernic de. As máscaras de Lélio: política e humor nas crônicas de Machado de Assis (1883–1886). Campinas, Editora da UNICAMP, 2016, 405 pp. Lúcia GranjaLuso-Brazilian Rev. January 2020 56:E17-E19 doi:10.3368/lbr.56.2.E17 http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/56/2/E17
Lee, Ana Paulina. Mandarin Brazil: Race, Representation and, Memory. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2018. 229 pp. Marcelo Mac CordLuso-Brazilian Rev. January 2020 56:E20-E22 doi:10.3368/lbr.56.2.E20 http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/56/2/E20
Sabine, Mark. José Saramago: History, Utopia, and the Necessity of Error. Cambridge: Legenda, Salisbury House, 2016. 271 pp. Adriana MartinsLuso-Brazilian Rev. January 2020 56:E23-E25 doi:10.3368/lbr.56.2.E23 http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/56/2/E23
Coutinho, Eduardo F. Brazilian Literature as World Literature. New York and London: Bloomsbury, 2018. 364 pp. Paulo MedeirosLuso-Brazilian Rev. January 2020 56:E26-E29 doi:10.3368/lbr.56.2.E26 http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/56/2/E26
Braga-Pinto, César. A violência das letras: Amizade e inimizade na literatura brasileira: (1888–1940). Rio de Janeiro: EdUERJ, 2018. 619 pp. Jefferson MelloLuso-Brazilian Rev. January 2020 56:E30-E33 doi:10.3368/lbr.56.2.E30 http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/56/2/E30
Milleret, Margo and Mary Risner, eds. A Handbook for Portuguese Instructors in the US. Roosevelt: Boavista Press, 2016. 255 pp. Serena J. RiveraLuso-Brazilian Rev. January 2020 56:E34-E38 doi:10.3368/lbr.56.2.E34 http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/56/2/E34