Volume 9

João Cabral de Melo Neto

 

This is the first of a series of numbers dedicated to the commemoration of the Movimento Modernista in Brazil. The Semana de Arte Moderna, which took place at the Teatro Municipal in São Paulo in  February 1922 was at the center of the cultural events of the year in Brazil - a year that also saw the publication of Ulysses by James Joyce and The Waste Land by T.S.Eliot. It represented the first wave of energy that would ripple for the rest of the 20th century weaving not only literature but the visual arts, architecture and music into new modes of expression.

It is fitting that our number dedicated to João Cabral de Melo Neto follows the one in homage of Augusto de Campos. Both poets share a passion for language and love of form. João Cabral de Melo Neto, known as the "engenheiro da palavra" fuses form into shape, color into stone, syntax into experience and experience into syntax. Belonging to what is known as the "Geração de 45", João Cabral de Melo Neto comes into his own in a century that had already given Brazilian letters two of its major poets: Manuel Bandeira and Carlos Drummond de Andrade. João Cabral de Melo Neto's poetics and diction are, however, unique in their originality and sheer beauty.

Élide Valarini Oliver

 

Editor

Élide Valarini Oliver
Professor of Brazilian and Comparative Literature
Director of the Center for Portuguese Studies
UC Santa Barbara
elideoliver@spanport.ucsb.edu

Guest Editor

Nuno Brito, Ph.D.
Instituto Camões Lecturer
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
UC Santa Barbara
nuno@ucsb.edu

Assistant Editor

Pedro Craveiro
Ph.D. Candidate
UC Santa Barbara
pedrocraveiro@ucsb.edu

Volume 9

Introduction by
Nuno Brito, "O sangue de um homem é mais espesso do que o sonho de um homem"

Essays

O Sahel entre Sertão e Sevilha: notas para uma leitura de Museu de tudo, Renan Nuernberger (Universidade de São Paulo)

Corografias de Pernambuco e Sevilha na Poética de João Cabral, Fabiane Renata Borsato (Universidade Estadual “Júlio de Mesquita Filho” Campus de Araraquara, Unesp)

Caça ao objeto: João Cabral e a Arte Cinematográfica, Ivan Marques (Universidade de São Paulo)

Um projeto editorial sonhado: Cartas sobre a criação de O Livro Inconsútil, Priscila Monteiro (Universidade de Coimbra)

João Cabral de Melo Neto e o “Complexo de Antologia”, Solange Fiuza (Universidade Federal de Goiás-CNPq)

A presença de João Cabral nalguns poetas portugueses, Arnaldo Saraiva (Universidade do Porto)

 

Santa Barbara Portuguese Studies, 2nd Ser., Vol. 9 "João Cabral de Melo Neto", 2022.