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The first volume of critical essays on the contemporary Portuguese novel in English, this book theorizes the concept of the 'hypercontemporary' as a way of reading the novel after its postmodern period.
This inquiry into the notion of the hypercontemporary in its literary and cultural articulations analyzes a varied group of works representative of the most vibrant novels published in Portugal since 2000. The editors' introductory chapter theorizes the concept of the hypercontemporary as one way of looking at the novel after its postmodern period - especially in its relation to questions of violence, memory and performativity.
These essays show how the Portuguese novel has evolved in the past 25 years, and how, in their diversity, most of these novels exhibit several common traits, including new topics and writing strategies - sometimes developing further entropic lines characteristic of many Postmodern narratives - and themes of violence, rapid transformation, and the many threats to a contemporary world that seems mass-produced due to greater technological advances. Readings also discuss the use of innovative graphic forms available from current print technologies and global networks.
The Hypercontemporary Novel in Portugal provides a necessary understanding of the current literary landscape of Portugal and, in the process, the aesthetics of hyperrealism or post-postmodernism.
Contents
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Ana Paula Arnaut (University of Coimbra, Portugal) and Paulo de Medeiros (University of Warwick, UK)
Part I. Intermediality, Intertextuality, and Self-Reflexivity in the Hypercontemporary Novel
1. The Page as a Hyperfictional Hypothesis in New Portuguese Literature: Patrícia Portela and Joana Bértholo, a Case Study
Sofia Madalena G. Escourido (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
2. Astronomia by Mário Cláudio: Memory, Intermediality, and the Cosmic Imagination
João Faustino (University of Warwick, UK)
3. Sketching Gnaisse: The Process of Reading a Metamorphic Novel
Daniela Côrtes Maduro (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
4. Representations of Elsewhere and New Forms of Dystopia in Hypercontemporary Portuguese Literature
Silvia Amorim (Bordeaux Montaigne University, France)
5. Charon Awaits: Do All Things Come to Those Who Wait?
Ana Isabel Martins (University of Rennes, France)
Part II. Memory and Post-Memory in the Hypercontemporary Novel
6. 'What's in a Name?' Reading the Hypercontemporary
Isabel Cristina Rodrigues (University of Aveiro, Portugal)
7. Paulo Faria's Wars: Owning Experience, Violence, and Postmemory
Felipe Cammaert (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
8. The Attraction of Autofiction in Contra mim: Paths and Chasms of Memory
José Vieira (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
9. The Shattered Narrative of Mafalda Ivo Cruz
Paulo Ricardo Kralik Angelini and Samla Borges Canilha (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
10. Of Technology and Lost Connections.: A Decolonial Approach to As Telefones by Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida as a Hypercontemporary Novel
Emanuelle Santos (University of Birmingham, UK)
11. Through a Glass Darkly: Violence, Intimacy, and Memory in Dulce Maria Cardoso
Paulo de Medeiros (University of Warwick, UK)
Index
