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University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Graduate Studies in Portuguese—PhD in Luso-Afro-Brazilian Studies and Theory & MA in Portuguese Studies
Department of Portuguese in collaboration with the Departments of History, Political Science, Sociology and Anthropology, Education, Art History, and the Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture.
PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense
Building and Deconstructing the Nation in Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas: A Matter of Order and Progress
| Category : | PhD Dissertation Proposal Defense |
| Date & Time : | Wednesday, May 20, 2009, 5:00 PM. |
| Location : | LARTS 374D (Dean's Conference Room) |
| Admission : | All Welcome !!! |
| Contact : | Victor Mendes, vmendes@umassd.edu, LARTS 398L, x8338. |
| Description : |
PhD Candidate: Eufrida da Silva 100-word abstract: The novel Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas was published in installments in the Revista Brasileira in 1880 and in a book form in 1881. Brás Cubas, the protagonist and narrator of the novel, who is deceased, expresses at the outset his opposition to being identified as a “dead author.” Therefore, excelling the inversion of an order, Cubas describes himself and an “author who is dead” and proceeds to recover his past through writing, electing the order of free-style narration to construct his imaginary Brazilian nation. The objective of this dissertation is to analyze the deployment of the ideas of “order and progress”—constitutive of modern Brazilian nationalism—in the construction of the nation undertaken in Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas. Language: Portuguese. Eufrida da Silva is a 2010 Ph.D. candidate in Luso-Afro-Brazilian Studies & Theory. |
Last Updated On: 5/21/09
