Abriu: estudos de textualidade do Brasil, Galicia e Portugal

The Carnation Revolution. Testimonies

Valter Hugo Mãe — 2024-10-18

The authors analyse their relationship with the historical event that, 50 years ago, marked their lives with a radical change in the political situation in Portugal. The end of the dictatorship synchronised the country with the rhythm of the times, opening the door to freedoms, the overcoming of colonialist ideas and the rights of women and minorities. The new generations are revisiting their historical awareness, gleaned from indirect witnesses or early childhood experiences of the changes in their family life, while from Spain the joy of freedom won in the neighbouring country is remembered.

The complexity of the myth: the revolution from outside Lisbon

Isabel Soler — 2024-10-18

The analysis of the 25 April revolution from the point of view of historical studies in Spain has an exceptional reference in the work of Josep Sánchez Cervelló, who approaches it from an interest in the comparison with Spain and the possible influence in the fall of other dictatorships. He also studies the subsequent process of independence of the colonies and possible irradiations in other African countries.

Carnations in countercurrent

Maria de Lourdes Pereira — 2024-10-18

The author presents here a selection of texts from the first volume of Vergílio Ferreira’s diaries, Conta-Corrente I (1980), which tell of his experience in the days surrounding the revolution, between 1973 and 1976, and show the evolution after the first days of enthusiasm.

The poetic and the political in Galician and Portuguese poetry today. Case studies

Burghard Baltrusch — 2024-10-18

The beast within me: subject and language in the postanimality of Luz Pichel

Rexina Rodríguez Vega — 2024-10-18

Identified in Castilian literature as one of the representatives of the “neorrural” poetry movement and in Galician literature as one of the practitioners of what has been called “posruralism”, which explores the disappearance of a world and a way of life related to rural culture, Luz Pichel’s body of work actually functions as a battering ram against both reception fields to which it belongs. It offers unforeseen meanings in line with an experimental program that links socio-political non-conformity to a questioning of language as a tool for representing the world. In this study, we aim to delve into the significance of the treatment of the animal trope in Pichel’s poetics. We observe her systematic rejection of the traditional anthropomorphization of the Other animal and the animalization of the human Other, indicating a desire to challenge the foundations of hierarchical oppositions that constitute the hegemonic view of the Western subject according to heterolingualism — the use of multiple languages, often in combination or contrast, within a literary or communicative context.

Leitura Furiosa: a poetics of listening

Mafalda Pereira — 2024-10-18

This article addresses the project Leitura Furiosa, an annual meeting in Portugal and France, which brings together writers, illustrators, and groups of people who do not do much writing and reading in their daily lives. The results of the meeting are the production of texts and illustrations collectively authored. Leitura Furiosa has both artistic and educational purposes, and seeks to combat illiteracy in associations and institutions that host people who are at risk or in situations of social vulnerability. The project seeks to show why writing and reading may be important to these groups of people, as well as to amplify their voices as marginalized groups. By analysing the project’s methodology, I will provide the context to Leitura Furiosa and address it as an artistic phenomenon that resists categorization, since it is close to the “littératures de terrain”, and includes dimensions of participatory and community art, according to François Matarasso’s theory. Furthermore, I will highlight the dialogical nature of the project drawing on Paulo Freire’s ideas, demonstrating how the practice of listening plays a pivotal role in the project’s dynamic, resulting in an artistic practice that is based on the idea of “writing with”. This article will analyse some of the co-created literary materials produced within the context of the project and thereby will demonstrate how Leitura Furiosa’s proposal is centred on a poetics of listening.

“Todos somos necesarios e necesarias”: relations between poetry and social movements through the collective work Sempre mar. Cultura contra a burla negra

Isaac Lourido — 2024-10-18

This papers aims to study the collective book Sempre mar. Cultura contra a burla negra, published in 2003 as part of the protest movement against the sinking of the oil tanker Prestige off the Galician coast and against the political management of that event. After framing the publication in the broader context of relations between poetry and social movements within the scope of the Nunca Mais citizen movement, the theoretical and methodological framework is presented, as well as the state of the question in relation to the previous bibliography on the poetry linked to this historical event. The second part analyses the poetic texts of the book, from different perspectives: general conditions of the product, participating people, thematic repertoires and pragmatic and enunciative characteristics. As main conclusions, the paper establishes that this publication is closely linked to the social movement as an agency of political participation, compared to other publications of the same time in which the agency of the writer, as an intellectual or notable, had a more prominent role. Furthermore, the predominant thematic repertoires are closely linked to the immediate event, although the repertoire variability is quite wide. Globally, the conventional model of social or committed poetry predominates, almost always monological in its pragmatic-enunciative presentation, although alternative models, of a non-lyrical or dialogical type, also find some space.

Poetics of the phantasmal act, between perplexity and commitment: Xela Arias at the Festival da Poesía no Condado

Noemí Garrido Aniorte — 2024-10-18

This article analyses the participation of the poet Xela Arias in the Festival da Poesía no Condado organized by the Sociedade Cultural e Desportiva do Condado de Salvaterra de Miño since 1981, in which the poet collaborated regularly during the 1980s. Using the conceptual framework of a spectral act (Rubín 2013) we can contextualise this poetry as oriented towards action and dissemination in a public space, solidifying a literature of resistance. Additionally, in the construction of a national identity in which the defence and appreciation of the Galician language and culture are of particular importance, after a history of silence and repression, we will add the gender perspective. This perspective allows for reflection on the subordinate position of women's writing, in this case, within a marginalized literature, and the various strategies of visibility and self-awareness as a female writer.

To Inquire the Past, to Safegard the Future - the poetry of Manuel Resende

João Aragão — 2024-10-18

Reading the poem “Epigrama”, this paper tries to think about the way in which Manuel Resende inquires the past in his poetry, proposing the interruption of historical recurrence that leads societies towards catastrophe. The obvious symmetries between the rise of fascism in the first post-war period and the current resurgence of the far-right compel us to understand and to prevent the conditions that have originated it in the past as well as in the present. Using Walter Benjamin's vision of History, which appears to be of crucial importance in understanding Manuel Resende's poetry, it is suggested that only revolution will interrupt the course of time and redeem the losers in history. “Epigrama” emerges as a presentification exercise of a dark reality that, despite the differences of each historical circumstance, can once again happen in our times. Alerting to the serious consequences of this return is also, as I try to argue, one of the objectives of Manuel Resende's poetry.

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A growing mesh

Jordi Gracia — 2024-10-18

Saramago or writing as existence and legacy

José Vieira — 2024-10-18

An approach to the memory of Xoán González-Millán

Rodrigo Herrera Alfaya — 2024-10-18

Reading Animalities: zooliterature and the limits of the human

Amilcar Torrao Filho — 2024-10-18

"What problems does foreignness solve for us?": intersections between Galician and Irish literary spheres

Mafalda Pereira — 2024-10-18

We only arrive where we are not expected. A reading of O retorno by Dulce Maria Cardoso

José Vieira — 2024-10-18

This paper intends to read the novel The Return, by Dulce Maria Cardoso, based on the thought of Eduardo Lourenço present in A Nau de Ícaro seguido de Imagem e Miragem da Lusofonia (1999), and O Labirinto da Saudade (1972). In addition to the Portuguese philosopher and essayist, we will resort to notions of liquidity and fragmentation of the subject in constant movement present in Zygmunt Bauman, in order to think about how the identity of Rui, the protagonist of the novel, and Mário, his father, are, by metonymy, not only the reflection of many “retornados”, but also the image of the country struggling with decolonization and with the future.

Reporting on the phenomenon that was the return of more than five hundred thousand people from the former Overseas Provinces, mainly from Angola and Mozambique, Dulce Maria Cardoso gives voice and words to a remarkable episode in recent Portuguese history. The Return is, therefore, a novel about an open wound that demonstrates the arrival of thousands of people in a place that is not waiting for them.

The journey of Teresita: galician sexile in early 20th century Argentina

Daniela Ferrández — 2024-10-18

This article reflects on the possibility of Argentina being a preferred destination for the Galician sexile in the early 20th century. Understanding sexile as the forced migration of sexual dissidence, we will review some examples focusing on Teresita, a sexual dissident from A Coruña who gained international fame for transgressing normative sexual boundaries. Her story gives an account of the community that awaited many sexiled Galicians in Buenos Aires at that time, as well as the attempts of the authorities to sanitize the nation. In this way, it allows us to situate a context in which spaces, displacements, and even artistic trends such as the cuplé are linked. In summary, we maintain that Teresita’s story, her comings and goings, and the analysis of her relational circle, represent elements for analysing the possible shared itineraries of a part of the Galician population whose lives have been forgotten and silenced by official narratives.

Children’s science fiction: an analysis of the robot icon in the work Os Passageiros do Futuro

Kesia Andrade — 2024-10-18

The present study aims to analyze Os Passageiros do Futuro, by Wilson Rocha, from the perspective of Gary Wolfe (1979) in The Known and The Unknown: The Iconography of Science Fiction, focusing mainly on the robot icon. As a theoretical contribution, the contributions of critics such as Henschel, et al ( 2021), Goodbody (2021), Araújo (2022; 2014), Wolfe (2016) and Ginway (2005) are considered, while critics who address characteristics of CF, with focus on iconographic fictional elements that lead the reader to reflect on aspects such as the impacts of the excessive use of technology on the environment. In addition, through the characters Grande Bolha and Log, it is proposed to understand how the robot icon often portrays social and cultural characteristics that dialogue directly with the impacts caused by technological advances in society as a whole.

The self-representation of Galician identity in contemporary popular music: deperipheralization, gender subversion, and extractivist critique

Rebeca Baceiredo — 2024-10-18

We try to analyse the self-representation of national or gender identity among current offers in galician music, between ludic and serious, between antagonisms and stereotypes. At the neotraditional tendency can be observed a self-representation from a heteronomous perspective, nearly a subordinate looking, following Bhabha, as it was conformed under the hegemonic subject look. It seems an exotic, mysterious incarnation of an archaic Galician stereotype or beside the image promoted abroad by institutional advertisement. Galicia, as a mixture between tradition and progress, understood as an anthropological comfort. Beside the comfortableness from the modern issues, from a kind of possibility of domestication that it implies, the epic element is there, focusing the elements on the territory to discover or domain. Opposite this, we can see other post-ironic proposals.

We try to analyse the self-representation of national or gender identity among some offers from popular Galician music during the last two decades, finding some spaces between stereotype and antagonism. The selection is focused over a more alternative or underground sphere, where the will for self-representation seems to exist and where the individual or collective subject, conformed by different stratifications or sections, seeks to imagine itself. We understand that the deconstruction implies, on a more or less explicit way, the destabilization of that reality that was called deperipheralization.

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Abriu: estudos de textualidade do Brasil, Galicia e Portugal

The Carnation Revolution. Testimonies

The complexity of the myth: the revolution from outside Lisbon

Carnations in countercurrent

The poetic and the political in Galician and Portuguese poetry today. Case studies

The beast within me: subject and language in the postanimality of Luz Pichel

Leitura Furiosa: a poetics of listening

“Todos somos necesarios e necesarias”: relations between poetry and social movements through the collective work Sempre mar. Cultura contra a burla negra

Poetics of the phantasmal act, between perplexity and commitment: Xela Arias at the Festival da Poesía no Condado

To Inquire the Past, to Safegard the Future - the poetry of Manuel Resende

Author guidelines

Call for papers

Back cover

A growing mesh

Saramago or writing as existence and legacy

An approach to the memory of Xoán González-Millán

Reading Animalities: zooliterature and the limits of the human

"What problems does foreignness solve for us?": intersections between Galician and Irish literary spheres

We only arrive where we are not expected. A reading of O retorno by Dulce Maria Cardoso

The journey of Teresita: galician sexile in early 20th century Argentina

Children’s science fiction: an analysis of the robot icon in the work Os Passageiros do Futuro

The self-representation of Galician identity in contemporary popular music: deperipheralization, gender subversion, and extractivist critique

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