Open AccessSimon, Robert. Understanding the Portuguese Poet Joaquim Pessoa, 1942-2007: A Study in Iberian Cultural Hybridity. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 2008.
Author(s) -
António Ladeira
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
journal of lusophone studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.1
H-Index - 2
ISSN - 2469-4800
DOI - 10.21471/jls.v7i0.286
Subject(s) - hybridity , postmodernism , portuguese , dictatorship , art history , sociology , art , literature , philosophy , law , political science , linguistics , politics , democracy
In his book, Simon proceeds from several ambitious— although legitimate—premises. He claims that since the 1970s postmodernism has been one of the most defining (and unchanging) traits of the lyrical tradition of Portugal and Spain and, most interestingly, that both during the Portuguese and the Spanish dictatorships these postmodern characteristics constituted deconstructive and self-referential symptoms of subversive intentions behind apparently esoteric writings.