Open Access<em>Pasárgada</em> as Dreamland in the Portuguese-speaking World
Author(s) -
Tânia Martuscelli
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
portuguese studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.101
H-Index - 7
eISSN - 2222-4270
pISSN - 0267-5315
DOI - 10.5699/portstudies.28.1.0050
Subject(s) - portuguese , poetry , humanities , identity (music) , art , modernism (music) , cape , literature , history , art history , philosophy , linguistics , aesthetics , archaeology
If one contrasts Brazilian Modernism with the Capeverdean Claridade movement, a common thread that defines their identity as nation can be underlined: the counterpart of the identity of their ‘father’, Portugal, which was imposed on them as colonies. If in order to exist as a nation Brazil had to ‘kill its father’ (Portugal), as Eduardo Lourenço brilliantly states, Cape Verdean poets just had to use the imagery of Manuel Bandeira’s poem ‘Pasárgada’ to proclaim their ‘freedom’. The present study focuses on the crosscultural and literary relationship between the Brazilian Modernist poet, Capeverdean poets of the journal Claridade, and the Portuguese answer to all this present in Távola Redonda.
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