Crosses Represented: Imagology and Figurations of Alterity

Authors

Maria João Simões
University of Coimbra
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6648-9097
Keywords: Imagology, Literary figurations, Allophilia, Interculturality

Synopsis

This volume is a collection of texts that result from several debates and workshops held during the development of the project “Literatura, Imagologia e Transnacionalismo” (Literature, Imagology and Transnationalism). This project is carried out within the research activities of the Centro de Literatura Portuguesa (CLP), of the University of Coimbra.

Several approaches of literary criticism are presented within a theoretical background of Imagology and literary transnationalism. These essays aim to study cultural clashes and intercultural dialogues in different works by Portuguese authors that present identitarian images of Portuguese and/or of the ‘foreigner’ in his otherness. The intersection of the various representations thus transcends a purely nationalistic perspective.

Therefore, this volume has not only a component of literary analysis but also achieves a patrimonial and cultural dimension, since the several essays investigate how interculturality is represented in Portuguese literary works.

Author Biography

Maria João Simões, University of Coimbra

Maria João Simões is a lecturer at the Faculty of Letters, University of Coimbra, where she teaches Portuguese Literature and Culture. He concluded his PhD in 2000 with a dissertation entitled Ideias Estéticas em Eça de Queirós. He is a member of APLC and AILC. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Portuguese Literature Centre. He coordinated the editing of the following volumes: O Grotesco (2005); O Fantástico (2007); O Século do Romance. Realism and Naturalism in Eighth century Fiction (co-edited) (2013); Surreal Impressions: O Surrealismo Português entre os Surrealismos Europeus (2015); Revista de Estudos Literários, nº 7 - A Sátira: Teorias & Práticas (in coloboration with Marta T. Anacleto), in 2017. He coordinated the research project, integrated in CLP, under the title Imagotipos Literários: Processes of (Un)Configuration in Literary Imagology, whose results were published in 2011, under the same title. Currently coordinates the internal Project "Literature, Emigration and Transnationalism: Representation of Migrations" (2014-20).

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Published
July 10, 2020

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ISBN-13 (15)
978-989-26-1942-2
doi
10.14195/978-989-26-1942-2

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