On Saramago /
"For many decades, José Saramago has been a staunch defender of the role of literature to both serve and be perceived as public discourse. When, in October 1998, he became the first Portuguese-language author to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, his conviction was supported by the assu...
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Dartmouth, Massachusetts :
Tagus Press, Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth,
2001
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| Series: | Portuguese literary and cultural studies ;
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Saramago’s world / Anna Klobucka
- Presentation of José Saramago. Ceremony to confer Doctor of Humane letters, Honoris Causa upon José Saramago. October 22,1999, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth / George Monteiro
- Address at the Honoris Causa ceremony, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth / José Saramago
- Articles-- Saramago’s construction of fictional characters : from Terra do Pecado to Baltasar and Blimunda / Horácio Costa
- José Saramago’s historical fiction / Adriana Alves de Paula Martins
- On the labyrinth of text, or, Writing as the site of memory / Teresa Cristina Cerdeira da Silva
- Righting wrongs, re-writing meaning and reclaiming the city in Saramago’s Blindness and all the names / David Frier
- Saramago, cognitive estrangement, and original sin? / Kenneth Krabbenhoft
- “The one with the beard is God, the other is the devil” / Harold Bloom
- Journey to the Iberian God : Antonio Machado revisited by Saramago / Orlando Grossegesse
- “Once but no longer the prow of Europe” : national identity and Portuguese destiny in José Saramago’s The stone raft / Mark J. Sabine
- Edge of darkness, or Why Saramago never wrote about the Colonial War in Africa / Maria Alzira
- “Cruising gender in the eighties (from Levantado do Chão to The history of the Siege of Lisbon)” / Ana Paula Ferreira
- Bureaucratic tale of the harbor master and the collector of customs / José Saramago
- Reviews
- José Saramago : 0 Ano de 1998. Colóquio/Letras 151/152 (Janeiro-Junho1999) / Onésimo Teotónio Almeida
- Carlos Reis. Diálogos com José Saramago. Lisboa: Caminho, 1998 / Mark J. Sabine
- Maria Alzira Seixo. Lugares da ficção em José Saramago. Lisboa: Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda, 1999 / Ana Sofia Ganho
- Beatriz Berrini. Ler Saramago: o romance. Lisboa: Caminho, 1998 / José Ornelas
- Bibliography of José Saramago / Anna Klobucka
- Other reviews and articles
- Antero de Quental. A Poesia na Actualidade. Introduction by Joaquim-Francisco Coelho. Vila do Conde: Centro de Estudos Anterianos, 1999 / George Monteiro
- Shit, shrimps, and shifting sobriquets : Iracema and the lesson in lost authority / Phillip Rothwell
- Violent games : towards an historical understanding of the Portuguese bullfight / Rita Costa Gomes
- Abstracts
- Contributors