Greek Mythic Heroines in Brazilian Literature and Performance

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-67846-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 23, 642 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1223 g

Reihe: Metaforms

This volume presents a survey of the reception of Greek myths - including Antigone, Medea, the Trojan cycle, and Alcestis - in Brazilian literature and stage performance. The collection addresses the work of many innovative authors, some of them great names of Brazilian literature, such as Jorge Andrade and Nelson Rodrigues, who are influential in this specific area of classical reception and well known by modern audiences. This unique volume is the product of collaboration of many scholars with different affiliations under the coordination of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and the Federal University of Minas Gerais (Belo Horizonte), two of the most prestigious universities in Brazil for the study of Classical and Reception Studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Morais, Carlos

Macintosh, Fiona

de Fátima Silva, Maria

De Moraes Augusto, Maria das Graças

Ribeiro Barbosa, Tereza Virgínia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Brasilianische Literatur, Portugiesische Literatur außerhalb Europas
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Maria de Fátima Silva and Tereza Virgínia Barbosa

Part 1: Rewriting Ancient Greek Myths

Section 1: Antigone

1 Antigone’s Myth in Brazilian Theater: Brief Notes

Renato Cândido da Silva and Orlando Luiz de Araújo

2 Antigone – the Eternal Return

Gilson Moraes Motta

3 Pedreira das Almas (Quarry of the Souls), by Jorge Andrade

Tereza Virgínia Ribeiro Barbosa and Marina Pelluci Duarte Mortoza

4 As Confrarias (The Fraternities) by Jorge Andrade: A Path to Freedom

Andreia Garavello Martins and Vanessa Ribeiro Brandão

5 Maria das Almas, by Rodrigo Estramanho de Almeida. A Tropical and Vicentian Antigone

Carlos Morais

6 Ismene, the Princess of Thebes and the (Post-)modern Páthos

Carlinda Fragale Pate Nuñez and Tereza Virgínia Ribeiro Barbosa

Section 2: Medea

7 Castro Alves: Medea in the Slave Quarters

Carlos Eduardo de Souza Lima Gomes and Tereza Virgínia Ribeiro Barbosa

8 Nelson Rodrigues’ Anjo Negro (Black Angel) or the Mirror Image of Euripides’ Medea

Sônia Aparecida dos Anjos

9 “I Killed Your Children, I Felt Hatred and Passion for You”: Euripides in Rodrigues

Fernando Santoro Moreira

10 Submission and Transgression: A Black Medea in Brazil

Tereza Virgínia Ribeiro Barbosa, Marcos Antônio Alexandre and Adélia Silva Carvalho

11 Drop of Water

Euripides’ Medea and Its Brazilian Adaptation: A Brief Comparison

Luisa Severo Buarque de Holanda

12 From Exile to Exile: A Dialogue between Euripides and Clara de Góes in the Play Medea en Promenade

Francisca Luciana Sousa da Silva and Orlando Luiz de Araújo

13 Jocy de Oliveira’s Medea: A Poetic Gesture by a Strange Foreigner

Über Autor(innen)

Carlos Morais, PhD in ancient Greek Literature by the University of Aveiro (UA), is now Professor of the Department of Languages and Cultures at the UA. He has published articles and books, including Portuguese Masks of Antigone (Aveiro, 2001), António Sérgio: Antigone(s) – Four Variations on a Myth (Lisbon, 2020).

Fiona Macintosh is a Professor of Classical Reception, Director of the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (APGRD) and Fellow of St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford. She has published numerous articles and books, including more recently Epic Performances from the Middle Ages into the Twenty-First Century (2018).

Maria de Fátima Silva is Full Professor at the Institute of Classical Studies at the University of Coimbra. She focused in Reception Studies, coordinated and collaborated in volumes such as Portrayals of Antigone in Portugal, Portraits of Medea in Portugal (Brill), The Classical Tradition in Portuguese and Brazilian Poetry.

Maria das Graças Moraes Augusto is Full Professor at the Department of Philosophy, at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. She published numerous articles and books on Logics and Metaphysics, mainly focused on Plato’s Politeia.

Tereza Virgínia Ribeiro Barbosa, PhD from the State University of São Paulo (UNESP), published books and translations, and adapted Homer's poems into comic books, included within the Basic Books Collection by the National Foundation of the Children's and Juvenile's Book, in Brazil 2014.

Contributors are: Adélia Silva Carvalho, Alexandre Costa, Alice Carvalho Diniz Leite, Ana Grossi Araújo, Andreia Garavello, António Carlos Hirsh, Carlinda Fragale Pate Nuñez, Carlos Eduardo Lima Gomes, Carlos Morais, Delfim Leão, Fábio Viana, Felipe Cordeiro, Fernando Santoro Moreira, Flávia Vieira Resende, Francisca Luciana Sousa da Silva, Gilson Moraes Mota, Jorge Deserto, Kathrin Rosenfield, Lawrence Flores Pereira, Luísa Severo Buarque de Holanda, Manuela Ribeiro Barbosa, Marcos António Alexandre, Maria António Hörster, Maria de Fátima Silva, Marina Pelluci Duarte Mortoza, Orlando Luiz de Araújo, Renato Cândido da Silva, Sara del Carmen Rojo de la Rosa, Sónia Aparecida dos Anjos, Tereza Virgínia Barbosa, Vanessa Ribeiro Brandão.