http://hdl.handle.net/10451/5424 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:32:45 GMT 2013-06-19T21:32:45Z http://hdl.handle.net/10451/5597 Title: The Powerless Diplomacy of the Abbé Correia da Serra Authors: Silva, Edgardo Medeiros, 1961- Abstract: This paper examines the diplomatic activity of the Abbé Correia da Serra (1751-1823), the first Portuguese Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States, in connection with the use of American ports by privateers preying on Portugal’s commerce with Brazil, its South American colony. Despite his connections to the political and intellectual circles in the United States capital at the time, and the justness of Portuguese grievances against the American government in this matter, Correia da Serra’s remonstrance went unheeded in Washington, as they collided with the underlying principles of its foreign policy towards Latin America in the first quarter of the nineteenth century. The so-called Monroe Doctrine implied that the original American project of revolution could be applied to the whole continent and that it was the “manifest destiny” of the United States to assume the role of guardian of the Americas. American public opinion and its more radical press were not sympathetic to Old World monarchies, and so it was particularly difficult for Correia da Serra to prevent Brazilian revolutionaries from gathering support in the United States for their independence movement and for the American government to enforce the neutrality legislation approved by Congress to punish the activity of privateers. Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10451/5597 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10451/5596 Title: “Deafened by the roar of its own history”: Género, Memória e Identidade no romance Paradise, de Toni Morrison Authors: Mancelos, João de, 1968- Abstract: O romance Paradise (1998), da escritora afro-americana Toni Morrison, apresenta ao leitor duas comunidades distintas, para estabelecer um contraste entre modos de encarar o passado e de viver o presente. Uma das comunidades é Ruby, uma “all-Black town”, fundada por Exodusters; a outra é simplesmente conhecida por The Convent, um refúgio onde mulheres com experiências traumatizantes reconstroem solidariamente as suas vidas. Enquanto a primeira comunidade detém um carácter patriarcal, é guiada por leis severas, e por uma memória histórica manipulada pelo grupo no poder, a segunda é fundamentalmente matriarcal, vive para um presente sem regras, e para a cura das memórias traumáticas. Neste artigo analiso estas diferenças e conflitos, de acordo com os estudos de género e de identidade. Para tanto, recorro ao romance Paradise, a várias entrevistas concedidas por Morrison, e a estudos de diversos especialistas reputados. Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10451/5596 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10451/5595 Title: Six Feet Under: “Better Living Through Death” Authors: Duarte, José Abstract: This paper aims at analysing the way in which the American society understands death. For this purpose, I will use the television series Six Feet Under by Allan Ball (2000-2005) as an excellent portrait of the funeral industry that sees death as a business and as a spectacle. However, the series also presents other important issues, for instance, that before death, laughing is the best medicine, something that the viewer may find in several episodes. Furthermore, it shows that the Fisher’s funeral home seems to be different from the rest of the industry, since they try to find meaning in life through death. This is something that can be seen in the way they treat the living, as well as the dead. The Fisher Funeral Home is the place of understanding between the living and the dead, and a metaphor for the path that looks for the equilibrium between past and present, in order to improve the future. Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10451/5595 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10451/5594 Title: Happy birthday, Mr. Poe! Authors: Lima, Maria Antónia Abstract: Considerações sobre a vida e obra de Edgar Allan Poe no bicentenário do seu nascimento. Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10451/5594 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z