Consensus and debate in Salazar's Portugal
Subtitle: visual and literary negotiations of the national text, 1933-1948
By: Ellen W. Sapega.
Series: Penn State Romance Studies series
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: University Park, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9780271034102
Subjects: Portuguese literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Portugal -- Intellectual life; National characteristics, Portuguese; Politics and literature -- Portugal; Arts -- Political aspects -- Portugal -- History -- 20th century
Description: "A study of art, architecture and literature produced in Portugal and Cape Verde during the period 1933-1948. Documents artistic responses to images of the Portuguese nation promoted by the Salazar government's Office of State Propaganda. Examines the works of José de Almada Negreiros, Irene Lisboa, and Baltasar Lopes"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Staging memory : "the most Portuguese village in portugal" and the exposition of the Portuguese world; title: Between modernity and tradition : José de Almada Negreiros's visual commentaries on popular experience; title: Family secrets : Irene Lisboa's critique of "god, patria, and family"; title: Imperial dreams and colonial nightmares : Baltasar Lopes's ambivalent embrace of Lusotropicalism; title: Conclusion : memory and the collective imagination under the Estado Novo and in its aftermath.