A Postcolonial Ulysses in the Lusophone World

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This book investigates the spaces of interaction between Portuguese and Brazilian modernists - specifically Oswald de Andrade, Augusto de Campos and Haroldo de Campos, Ronald de Carvalho, António Ferro, Fernando Pessoa, Mário de Sá-Carneiro - and their interpretation of "nation". Most importantly, the way in which their work echoes and transfigures the Ulysses myth, to be termed "Portuguese Ulyssism" by Brazilian Gilberto Freyre in his reading of Luís Vaz de Camões's epic poem The Lusiads, is analyzed, underlining the presence of a postcolonial Ulysses in the Lusophone world. The trope of the shipwreck is central to the creative production of these Atlantic modernists who, outside of their respective national literatures, interact beyond the territories of nation-states through texts on exile, national identity, and colonialism. As well as the renowned The Lusiads, among the texts studied are two issues of the Luso-Brazilian quarterly Orpheu (1915) and António Ferro's contributions to Brazil's Klaxon (1922, in celebration of the centenary of Brazil's political independence from Portugal), Oswald de Andrade's Anthropophagic Manifesto (1928) and an unpublished letter to Ferro, Fernando Pessoa's poem "Ulysses" in Message (1934), and Haroldo de Campos's Galaxies (1984) and "Finismundo: The Last Voyage" (1997).