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- Title
Imaginary Atlantic Islands: José Saramago's Iberian Utopia and Maria Gabriela Llansol's European 'Communities'.
- Authors
Ribeiro, Raquel
- Abstract
This article analyses Maria Gabriela Llansol's novel Da Sebe ao Ser (1988) and her concept of Europe as an Edenic space in comparison with two texts by the Portuguese Nobel laureate José Saramago, the novel A Jangada de Pedra (1986) and the short story O Conto da Ilha Desconhecida (1999). I demonstrate how Saramago and Llansol have conceived metaphorical Atlantic islands populated with migrant figures, questioning Portugal's complex relationship with Europe, Spain and its own colonial past, and the role of 'lusofonia' in a postcolonial Iberia and a post-imperial Europe.
- Subjects
LLANSOL, Maria Gabriela; DA Sebe ao Ser (Book); SARAMAGO, Jose, 1922-2010; A jangada de pedra (Book); O Conto da Ilha Desconhecida (Short story); PORTUGUESE literature -- History &; criticism; UTOPIAS in literature
- Publication
Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (1475-3839), 2012, Vol 89, Issue 7, p769
- ISSN
1475-3839
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.3828/bhs.2012.58