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robert pAtrick Newcomb &
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editors
Beyond Tordesillas
New Approaches to Comparative
Luso-Hispanic Studies
EDITED BY
Robert Patrick Newcomb
and
Richard A. Gordon
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS • COLUMBUS
Copyright © 2017 by The Ohio State University.
All rights reserved.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Newcomb, Robert Patrick, editor. | Gordon, Richard A. (Richard Allen),
1969– editor.
Title: Beyond Tordesillas : new approaches to comparative Luso-Hispanic studies / edited by
Robert Patrick Newcomb and Richard A. Gordon.
Other titles: Transoceanic studies.
Description: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2017] | Series: Transoceanic
studies | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017024726 | ISBN 9780814213476 (cloth ; alk. paper) | ISBN 0814213472
(cloth ; alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Comparative literature—Portuguese and Spanish. | Comparative
literature—Spanish and Portuguese. | Spain—Relations—Portugal. | Portugal—
Relations—Spain. | Brazil—Relations—Latin America. | Latin America—Relations—
Brazil. | United States—Relations—Latin America. | Latin America—Relations—United
States. | Transnationalism—Social aspects. | Culture in motion pictures. | Popular
music—Social aspects—Brazil.
Classification: LCC PQ9019 .B49 2017 | DDC 460—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017024726
Cover design by Lisa Force
Text design by Juliet Williams
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C O N T E N T S
Acknowledgments vii
INTRODUCTION Bridging Tordesillas 1
PART I LUSO-HISPANIC STUDIES AND RELATED LINES OF
INQUIRY: A SERIES OF PROPOSALS
CHAPTER 1 Portuguese and the Emergence of Iberian Studies
PEDRO SCHACHT PEREIRA 21
CHAPTER 2 The Case for Ad Hoc Transnationalism
HÉCTOR HOYOS 37
CHAPTER 3 Queer Spanish, Queer Portuguese: A Series of
Research Proposals
DAVID WILLIAM FOSTER 54
CHAPTER 4 Before Tordesilhas, and Beyond: The Politics of Native
Agency across the Americas
TRACY DEVINE GUZMÁN 64
CHAPTER 5 “Blister you all”: Sérgio Buarque de Holanda and the
Calibanic Genealogy
PEDRO MEIRA MONTEIRO
TRANSLATED BY JAMES IRBY 82
iv CONTENTS
PART II WRITTEN FICTIONAL NARRATIVE:
BRAZIL AND SPANISH-SPEAKING LATIN AMERICA
CHAPTER 6 The Literary Revenant in a Latin American
Comparative Context
ROBERT MOSER 95
CHAPTER 7 Borges, Clarice, and the Development of Latin America’s
“New Narrative”
EARL E. FITZ 108
CHAPTER 8 Mapping Citizenship in Luiz Ruffato’s Inferno provisório and
Guillermo Saccomanno’s El pibe
LEILA LEHNEN 119
PART III LUSO-HISPANIC POETRY, MUSIC, AND
EXPRESSIVE CULTURE
CHAPTER 9 The Parábola of the Latin American Avant-Gardes
ALFREDO BOSI
TRANSLATED BY ROBERT PATRICK NEWCOMB 137
CHAPTER 10 Brazilian Symbolism and Hispanic American Modernismo:
Resonance across the Luso-Hispanic Divide
SARAH MOODY 149
CHAPTER 11 Shared Passages: Spanish American–Brazilian Links in
Contemporary Poetry
CHARLES A. PERRONE 162
CHAPTER 12 Cantigas de amigo: Galicia and Brazil in the Lusophone
Musical Space
FREDERICK MOEHN 173
PART IV LUSO-HISPANIC CINEMA, PERFORMANCE, AND
VISUAL CULTURE
CHAPTER 13 Cartography of Dissidence: In/visibility and Urban Display in
Luso-Hispanic Street Projects
TINA ESCAJA 191
CHAPTER 14 Memory, Youth, and Regimes of Violence in Recent Hispanic
and Lusophone Cinemas
LESLIE L. MARSH 204
CONTENTS v
CHAPTER 15 Cinema in Totalitarian Iberia: Propaganda and Persuasion
under Salazar and Franco
PATRÍCIA VIEIRA 220
CHAPTER 16 Globalization and Documentary Film: Luso-Hispanic
Reflections
MICHAEL J. LAZZARA 234
List of Contributors 249
Index 252
A C K N O W L E D G M E N T S
THE EDITORS would like to recognize: first and foremost, our contributors,
who have made this volume what it is; Iliana Rodríguez, editor of the Trans-
oceanic Series, for her support of this project; Lindsay Martin and The Ohio
State University Press, for guidance and patience; our anonymous external
reviewers, who provided crucial feedback.
Robert Patrick Newcomb would like to thank his colleagues at the Uni-
versity of California, Davis, and Kelley Weiss, for her love and support.
Richard A. Gordon would like to thank his colleagues at The Ohio State
University and the University of Georgia.
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I N T R O D U C T I O N
Bridging Tordesillas
ROBERT PATRICK NEWCOMB
RICHARD A. GORDON
PERHAPS NO two literary and cultural traditions share such a natural affinity
through both language and history, and yet so consistently resist comparative
study, as do those of the former Spanish and Portuguese colonial empires. Of
the major Romance languages, Spanish and Portuguese are the most closely
related, having only diverged from one another in the Middle Ages. Today,
Spanish and Portuguese are to a significant degree mutually intelligible, and
in certain border regions the two languages bleed into each other, as occurs
on portions of the Brazilian-Uruguayan frontier. Similarly, the histories of
the Portuguese and Spanish states, and of Brazil and the Spanish-speaking
republics of Latin America, have been closely intertwined. Portugal and Spain
are the modern products of a centuries-long process of often-linked political
evolution on the Iberian Peninsula, a landmass set apart from the rest of the
European continent by the Pyrenees, and which the Portuguese novelist José
Saramago imagined as a cultural—and literal—island in his speculative novel
A Jangada de Pedra (The Stone Raft, 1985). Having been bonded in protean
form during the Roman, Visigothic, and Muslim periods of rule in Iberia,
much of what would become Portugal and Spain embarked during the Middle
Ages on parallel processes of peninsular reconquista. In the late fifteenth and
sixteenth centuries the two kingdoms undertook Europe’s first modern over-
seas colonization projects, expanding into the Americas, Africa, and Asia and
becoming imperial rivals. Between 1580 and 1640, Spain and Portugal were
united under the Spanish Habsburgs, and while they have remained politically
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