Portuguese Studies

Maria Gabriela Llansol e a rapariga que temia a impostura da língua
Pedro Eiras ……………………………………………………………...……...... 11

Resisting the Myth: Perceptions of Lisbon in Contemporary Portuguese
Fiction
Andrea-Eva Smolka …………………………………………………………..….. 45

Viajar com Alberto Pimentel
Sandra Nunes …...…………………………………………………………..….... 61

Brazilian Studies

Macunaíma e Cane: Sociedades multi-raciais além do Modernismo no Brasil
e nos Estados Unidos
Paulo da-Luz-Moreira .......…………………………………………………...….. 75

Leituras portuguesas pelo brasileiro Carlos Pena Filho
Ângela Sarmento .....................................................................………………..…. 91

Clarice Lispector’s A hora da estrela: Remapping Culture and the Nation-
Space
Roland Walter ………………………………………………………..…….…... 115

Encontro de Cecília Meireles com a terra portuguesa
Luísa Maria Gonçalves da Mota ……………………………………………..…. 125

African Studies

Oral Traditions in Lusophone African Women’s Poetry
Sandra Campos ………………………………………………………………… 137

Contributors List …………………………………………………….……...….. 157

Over the past three years, the Graduate Student Conference on Lusophon History, Literature, and Culture at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has provided a forum for students from different disciplines to engage in presentations and discussions focusing on the Portuguese speaking world.

The articles published in this special edition of TINTA represent just a portion of the diversity of approaches that have made the conferences a success. Attesting to the interdisciplinary nature of this edition, we have included topics that range from a groundbreaking article on Maria Gabriela Llansol, a rather “difficult” contemporary Portuguese writer, as well as the study on the Brazilian poet Carlos Pena Filho, and a comparative study of multi-racial societies in the works of two Modernist
authors from Brazil and the United States: Mário de Andrade and Jean Toomer. Other topics include a study on Cecília Meirele’s close ties to Portugal and an article on two prominent poets, the Angolan Paula Tavares and Maria Olinda Beja from São Tomé e Príncipe. The conferences, as well as this publication, have been made possible with the support and help of the Graduate Students and Professors of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and the Latin American and
Iberian Studies Program. We would like to express our gratitude to the Center for Portuguese Studies and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese for their continued support. We would also like to thank Dean Charles Li for a very generous grant towards the publication of this issue.

The Editors