26 articles in this issue
Thalita Ruth Sousa,Naiara Sales Araújo
The Frankenstein complex is the fear that a creature would supplantits creator. It is present in Brazilian science fiction since the mid-twentieth century, helping to understand the human-technology relationship. Therefore, this work analyses the conflict... see more
Virgínia Maria Vasconcelos Leal
Henrique Marques Samyn
In the Galician-Portuguese satiric songs, the soldadeira Maria Negra is mentioned in three cantigas attributed to Pero Garcia Burgalês: "Maria Negra vi eu, em outro dia" (B 1382, V 990); "Dona Maria Negra, bem talhada" (B 1383bis, V 992); and "Maria Negra... see more
Amilcar Torrão Filho
Between the 18th and 19th centuries, when the port of Rio de Janeiro became one of the most visited points in the Southern Hemisphere, and with the opening of Portuguese-Brazilian ports from 1808, and the transfer of the Portuguese Court to Brazil, many t... see more
Anderson da Mata
It is usual to come across complaints about the poor habits of reading in Brazil. Such statements are supported by researches, such as the "Retratos da leitura no Brasil" by Pró-Livro Institute, which points to the scarce number of readers. However,... see more
Antón Blanco Casás
The following paper is a speci c reading of Xosé Luís Méndez Ferrín’s Antón e os inocentes. It attempts to sketch an internationalist worldview of the Galician national space and territory through the city of Vigo and its sea. They both function as axes f... see more
Ana Garrido Gonzalez
We analyse, in Eva Moreda’s A Veiga é como un tempo distinto (2011) and Almudena Solana’s Las mujeres inglesas destrozan los tacones al andar (2007), how the dichotomy of migrants who negotiate their relation not only with London but also with Galician sp... see more
José Antonio Losada Montero
This article aims to provide an interdisciplinary context to reflect on how nationalist historical struggles have configured narratives and identities of political and spiritual redemption, and how both misrecognized narratives and identities are currentl... see more
Anna Caballé
Two unpublished letters of Concepción Arenal (1820-1893) from two very different stages of her life are presented here. The rst one is dated 1845 and reveals a delicate family negotiation about the future of her sister, Antonia Arenal Ponte. There is also... see more
María Xesús Lama López
Rectification of the authorial attribution of two texts reproduced in the article "Rosalía de Castro in the press. Two lost writings", published in Abriu, issue 8, and remarks on the Murguía’s contributions to La Ilustración de Madrid.
Maria Payeras
Perfecto E. Cuadrado
Rafael M. Mérida Jiménez
Lorena Paz López
Isabel Soler
Helena González Fernández
Manuela Rodrigues Santos
The present paper studies the novel A Inevitável história de Letícia de Diniz, written by Marcelo Pedreira, with the objective of analyzing how the colonial matrix of power is inscribed in the process of reinvention of the body that characterizes the tran... see more
Lúcia Osana Zolin
Published to mark the rst edition of Mulherio das Letras, a movement of women who are committed to the valuing and visibility of women’s literature, the collection that is named after the movement and was craftily edited comprises around one hundred short... see more
Pollianna de Fátima Santos Freire
The aim of this paper is to discuss, based on the analysis of Carolina Maria de Jesus’ novel Diário de Bitita (1986) and of Conceição Evaristo’s Becos da Memória (2006), the relationship between ancestral memories and the emergence of a literary tradition... see more
Maristela Scremin Valério
In Carvão Animal (2011), the work of Brazilian writer Ana Paula Maia, death permeates the plot and the environment where the characters live and work. Using crude and synaesthetic language, the author builds a narrative in which death rites lose their sac... see more