The reconstruction of Lisbon
Subtitle: Severa's legacy and the fado's rewriting of urban history
By: Michael Colvin.
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lewisburg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 131
ISBN-13: 9780838757086
Subjects: Severa, Maria, -- 1820-1846; Dantas, Júlio, -- 1876-1962; Fados -- Portugal -- Lisbon -- History and criticism; Mouraria (Lisbon, Portugal) -- History
Description: "The Reconstruction of Lisbon exposes how Fado lyricists have appropriated popular novelist and playwright Julio Dantas's forging of Mouraria fadista/ prostitute Maria Severa as a national heroine, and the Fado as Portugal's national song - in A Severa (1901) and A Severa: Peca em Quatro Actos (1901) - to manifest a sub-rosa criticism of the Estado Novo's demolition of the Mouraria between the 1930s and 1970s. The lyricists exploit Dantas's fictionalization/ dramatization of Severa's life, death, and consequent legacy to link Severa's Mouraria and the Fado to the Portuguese character, to evoke national sympathy, or even outrage for the local cause of the erasing of the Mouraria."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : progress, tradition, demolitions, and overdue outrage; title: Julio Dantas's A Severa : the genesis of the folkloric figure of the Mouraria prostitute; title: Severa's death and the death of the fadista Mouraria in the "Salvacao Barreto" demolitions; title: The reconstruction of a Mouraria of contrasts : the aristocratic and fadista Mourarias and reincarnations of Severa and Marialva; title: The church of Nossa Senhora da Saude : the last vestiges of a Christian Mouraria and the gateway to Severa's Rua do Capelao; title: Conclusion : good-bye, Mouraria.