Veredas: Revista da Associação Internacional de Lusitanistas

Passaram ainda além... dos estereótipos: questões de género na obra camoniana

2025-08-31T18:39:37+00:00

No momento em que se comemora o quinto centenário do nascimento de Luís Vaz de Camões, pretende-se estimular a discussão sobre a sua obra, dirigindo o foco para a abordagem de temas que interpelam os ledores e ledoras da atualidade.Procurando fomentar a reflexão crítica sobre as questões de género na produção camoniana, de modo a resgatar o interesse deste valioso contributo para a história cultural do século XVI, este dossiê visa aprofundar o estudo da mentalidade que embasou a fortuna crítica e/ou poética dessas temáticas, seja na atualidade, seja em outros períodos históricos, de acordo com valores e desejos dominantes. A seleção reúne, assim, propostas de investigação que promovem o diálogo interdisciplinar, envolvendo diferentes áreas científicas como a Literatura, a História, os Estudos Culturais, os Estudos Feministas e os Estudos Homoeróticos.

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2025-08-31T18:43:04+00:00

The bachelor Salomão II, pseudonym of Camilo Castelo Branco: nine forgotten sonnets aimed at Ramalho Ortigão and Eça De Queirós

2025-08-31T19:01:13+00:00

The main objective of this article in Textual Criticism is to draw attention to recently discovered nine sonnets by Camilo Castelo Branco. The controversial theme, which includes references to realist writers such as Ramalho Ortigão and Eça de Queirós, may have been one of the reasons of why these sonnets were not published in a book. Camilo, nearly blind and just a few months away from ending his life, had stopped writing novels. His works from this period, being scarce, hold special importance for understanding the mindset of one of the greatest novelists in the Portuguese language.

“The isle of Circe” by Natália Correia: amidst islands and metamorphoses

2025-08-31T19:01:12+00:00

This study aims to analyze the intricate network of themes and symbolism present in the collection The Isle of Circe, and the marks of insularity connecting Correia to other (insular) authors. The homonymous novel also explores lycanthropy, associating it with the figure of Circe, whose transformative power is similar to that of Matilde. It is also of interest to understand how the narrative reflects Correia’s social and political critique, alluding to the short story “United Nations” where violence and dehumanization are explored. The feminine role is also highlighted through the character Matilde, who challenges norms and possesses a staggering power that enhances a new social dynamic.

Mia Couto: the supplement of (at) the origin, in Sleepwalking Land…

2025-08-31T19:01:10+00:00

We saw, in Mia Couto’s novel, the implications of Muidinga’s referring to Kindzu’s writings as letters. We thought they are based on the derridian notion of supplement and – to understand Muidinga’s amnesia – and the following the differences, on the field of psychotraumatology, between Freud, Pierre Janet and Ferenczi up to those psychoanalists like Philip Bromberg that, in our days, think dissociation as constitutive to the subject as a plural entity, instead of simply reducing it to repression. Given Kindzu’s self-definition as a writer of dreams, we asked ourselves what could be a “writing before the letter” – as that of the dreams conceived, by Muidinga, as “letters sent to our other remaining lives” – reading “Freud et la scène de l'écriture”, from L'écriture et la différence, “Ce dangereux supplément...”, in De la grammatologie, “Envois”, in La carte postale and “Télépathie”, in Psyché - Inventions de l'autre, by
Jacques Derrida.

The writing of a regional literary history from the perspective of the Theory of Nodal Points

2025-08-31T19:01:11+00:00

This paper aims to develop a methodological strategy based on the Theory of Nodal Points aiming to write a regional literary history. In the initial part of the text, data that contextualize the proposal are presented, such as the theoretical basis (region, regionality, regionalism and regional literature), the collection of primary materials and the treatment given to them. Then, from similar research carried out by Rolf Parr (2018; 2019), the Theory of Nodal Points is made explicit and, based on the preliminary analysis of the collected materials, the nodal points to be developed during writing are proposed of a literary history of the Metropolitan Region of Serra Gaúcha (RMSG). The theoretical foundation is formed by authors dealing with regional literature, such as Berumen (2005), Mecklenburg (2013), Stüben (2013), Joachimsthaler (2013) and Parr (2018; 2019).

The bucolic play of camonian homoeroticism in the Écloga dos Faunos

2025-08-31T19:01:08+00:00

The article analyzes the presence of homoeroticism in Écloga dos Faunos by Luís de Camões, exploring its roots in the classical bucolic tradition and its connection to homoerotic mythology. The study examines how Camões’ eclogue engages in dialogue with Virgil’s Eclogues and Theocritus’ Idylls, employing genre conventions to embed a homoerotic subtext. The analysis identifies mythological references from the homoerotic pantheon interwoven into the poem, as well as the pederastic dynamic suggested by the dedication to the nobleman Dom António de Noronha. Furthermore, it investigates the impact of Inquisitorial censorship and the use of mythology as a strategy to encode homoerotic desire within the boundaries of Renaissance discourse. The article concludes that Camões’ eclogue not only perpetuates the bucolic tradition but also reinterprets it considering the cultural conventions and restrictions of the 16th century.

Echoes of Eros: female power and gender representations on the Island of Love in Os Lusíadas Daniel Batista Lima Borges

2025-05-09T22:39:42+00:00

This article proposes a close and immanent reading of the Island of Love episode in Os Lusíadas articulating gender studies with Deleuzian philosophy. Far from being mere ornaments or rewards, by analyzing figures such as Venus and the nymphs, the text reveals how these characters act as symbolic forces of agency, desire, and poetic memory. Rejecting allegorical or functionalist interpretations, the reading suggests that eroticism functions as a language of consecration and glory, destabilizing the patriarchal logic of traditional epic. The study incorporates reflections by authors such as Cleonice Berardinelli, Paula Cunha, and Rafaella Teotônio, demonstrating how the feminine in Camões operates as a central axis of poetic and narrative composition. In this way, the poem is interpreted as a field of aesthetic and symbolic tension, whose effects still resonate in contemporary readings of literature and power.

Attitudes of the sixteenth-century society towards women: from Camões and popular theatre to social and ethnic reality

2025-08-31T19:01:07+00:00

The issue addressed here is whether there is any correspondence between the ideas in vogue in 16th century Portugal about the women of the various ethnic groups living there, as reflected in literature, and concrete reality. The latter is made known by administrative, civil and ecclesiastical texts, or by reports from foreigners, which are therefore more credible than literary works. These, in the case of poetry, were influenced by reasons of style or cultural tradition, or, in the case of theatre, by the need to please the public. Through excerpts from various authors, from Camões to the most popular playwrights, the different visions of the various types of women are conveyed, concluding, in most cases, that there is a correspondence, despite some exaggeration, between the reality presented by non-literary sources and what literature reveals.

Seduction and honour in Auto dos Enfatriões

2025-08-31T19:01:03+00:00

The masculine main characters of Auto dos Enfatriões’ two narratives, Feliseu and Anfatrião, show, with their sayings and doings, the functioning of two important categories of masculinity: seduction and honour. This study aims to explore how Feliseu and Anfatrião’s masculine subjectivity develops around the tension between their desires and wants and the inevitability of the sixteenth-century hegemonic ideals of “being a man”. If Feliseu’s case shows the intricacies of seduction, even endowed with a homosocial character, and unveils the possible masculine sufferings due to matrimony’s patriarchal definition, Anfatrião’s story reveals how a present suffering could be profitable in the future, specially when the reward is an affiliation to an ideal of masculinity impossible to achieve without divine aid.

The reverse side of embroidery – Inês de Castro, of Canto, of Manto – reinterpretation of Camões by Fiama Hasse Pais Brandão

2025-08-31T19:01:05+00:00

This article analyzes the rereading of the figure of Inês de Castro written by Fiama Hasse Pais Brandão, especially the poem Inês de Manto, published in the work Barcas Novas (1967). The research starts from the comparison between the representation of Inês in Os Lusíadas, by Luís de Camões, and the poetry of Fiama, observing how the Portuguese author of the 20th century dislocates a personage from the sphere of idealized and heroic love for a critical and contemporary perspective. Although Camões has contributed significantly to the literary construction of the myth of Inês, the rereading of Fiama proposes a rupture with this tradition, evidencing the feminine suffering based on material and symbolic signs. The analysis mobilizes concepts of intertextuality and rereading, aiming to understand how Fiama’s poetic language deconstructs the Camonian canon and proposes new forms of representation of women in literature.

Contemporary reinterpretations of the Island of Love in Gonçalo M. Tavares and Yara Nakahanda Monteiro

2025-08-31T19:01:06+00:00

The episode conventionally called “the Island of Love” is one of the most prominent in The Lusiads by Luís de Camões, raising questions about love, heroism, and utopian reward. The radiant face of this island, an archetype of paradise, also reveals the author’s disillusionment with the reality of his own time: Portugal in the 16th century, grappling with a crisis after the peak of the “Age of Discoveries.” While the vivid and symbolic landscape created by Camões is often remembered for its joyful sensuality, it is its darker undertones that resurface in the 21st century in works such as Uma viagem à Índia, a narrative poem by Gonçalo M. Tavares, and Essa dama bate bué!, a novel by Yara Nakahanda Monteiro. Both, through numerous dialogues with the Portuguese epic, offer reinterpretations of the Island of Love, as we will discuss here.

The camonian woman in the poetry of Vasco Graça Moura

2025-08-31T19:01:04+00:00

Camões – and what he relates to – is a fundamental reference point for understanding Vasco Graça Moura’s poetic universe. The author’s lyrical production bears witness to a remarkable example of creative reception and constitutes a significant structuring axis for the analysis of the privileged dialogue that the author establishes with Camões. In this context, we seek, above all in the poetic representation of women, to elucidate the network of intertextual links, with the aim of identifying innovative compositional elements inspired by the greatness and value of Camões’ legacy.

Right- and left- handed Camões, sinister Camões: in one hand always what? And in the other, what else?

2025-08-31T19:01:09+00:00

Luís de Camões’ poetry is characterized by working, often in a dialectical manner, with some pairs. One of them, not necessarily explored exhaustively by the poet, but open to careful reading, is that of the two hands. The image of the poet himself, with his hands in an important role, is the subject of one of the most famous portraits which Camões deserved – in it, a very basic vital need is thematized, which the poet makes coexist in his work with some nobler ones, especially that of the experience of love. What is at stake, in hunger for food and in desire, is the body. Therefore, the reading of key images in the sonnet “Bem sei, Amor, que é certo o que receio”, especially the image of the hand on the breast, in conjunction with other moments of Camões’ poetry can be a (revolving) door to a certain significant area of this work.