Utopias of otherness
Subtitle: nationhood and subjectivity in Portugal and Brazil
By: Fernando Arenas.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
Subjects: Identity (Psychology); Portuguese fiction -- 20th century -- Criticism and interpretation.; Brazilian fiction -- 20th century -- Criticism and interpretation.; Utopias in literature.; Literature and myth.; Difference (Psychology) in literature.; Portugal -- Civilization -- 21st century.; Brazil -- Civilization -- 21st century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-173) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Portugal : ideas of empire and nationhood; title: Brazilian national identity : intellectual debates and changing cultural realities; title: Subjectivities and homoerotic desire in contemporary Brazilian fiction : the nation of Caio Fernando Abreu; title: Women's difference in contemporary Portuguese fiction : the case of Maria Isabel Barreno; title: Worlds in transition and utopias of otherness.