Textualities

Coord: Rita Patrício

Textualities and all its subprojects deal with Portuguese literature, having purposes such as: the study of literary forms of autobiographical literature; the study of Portuguese literary magazines; critical edition of modern texts.

• AUTOBIO – Literatura Autobiográfica: Questões teóricas e corpora

This project is developed through case studies and other activities of individual researchers, such as the publication of essays and the participation in national and international academic events of this field of studies. One of the most important output sof this project was the editions of  A Visagem do cronista. Antologia de crónica autobiográfica portuguesa. Séculos XIX-XXI, selection and introduction by Carina Infante do Carmo. Several Phd and MA thesis are in progress.

• POLYGON

The project has as its corpus a set of Portuguese literary magazines which, from the beginning of the 20th century until today, despite having always been considered pivotal moments in the constitution of a specific national literary system, have proposed as their most decisive feature the deli­neation of divergent and very particular international and interartis­tic scenarios. The reconstitution and problematization of these relations and these dialogic movements is thus a fundamental critical act to assess in all its width the consistency and structural universality of the gestures of many Portuguese authors and artists of the last century, as well as the value of their cultural performance.

• Literary estate of writer Fernanda Botelho, 1926-2007

This project (supported by Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian – Recuperação, tratamento e organização de acervos documentais 2015) is now in the last phase of inventory, catalogue and technical tasks in the Estate Fernanda Botelho. The work in progress addresses correspondence, photographs and other documents. The republishing of the works by the novelist Fernanda Botelho, with critical prefaces, started in 2017, with the publication of Esta noite sonhei com Brueghel (preface by Paula Morão, Abysmo Editions). Since then, four other volumes have been published (Lourenço é nome de jogral, Gritos da minha dança, A fábula e a gata, O ângulo raso).

The project is also working with non academic institutions such as Public Libraries, Schools and other entities.


Objectives

The chief goals of AUTOBIO are:

• to explore new theoretical approaches to autobiographic literature and to self-representation, specially discussing topics such as subjectivity and representation;
• to critically examine through case-studies the way in which the study of autobiography is a productive field to think about modern and contemporary Portuguese literature;
• to produce diferent types of scientific outputs (articles in specialist journals, academic theses), that will contribute to the study of literary autobiography in modern and contemporary Portuguese literature.

The chief goals of POLYGON are:

• to map the presence of non-Portuguese authors and texts in Portuguese literary magazines of the 20th-21st centuries;
• to map the presence – either material or by reference - of non-verbal arts in these same periodicals;
• considering the data collected, to develop theoretical-critical reflections in order to reread and reassess the importance of the publications and their protagonists on a supra-national level, rescuing them from a narrow historical-literary perspective that has been too dependent on the landmarks of the constitution of modern and contemporary Portuguese literature.

The chief goals of FERNANDA BOTELHO are:

• to complete the inventory and the catalogue of the estate of Fernanda Botelho;
• to republish the works by the novelist Fernanda Botelho;
• to develop different activities based on the work of Fernanda Botelho, mainly in public schools and libraries (CeComp Community).

Recent and planned activities

• Patrício, Rita, Organização do XXIII Colóquio de Outono, Correspondências: Nem todas as cartas são ridículas", CEHUM, 25 e 26 de Novembro 2021, Campus de Gualtar, Universidade do Minho
• Patrício, Rita, Organização do Colóquio Internacional Fernando Pessoa, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian/Casa Fernando Pessoa, 13, 14 e 15 de Outubro de 2021.

Key publications

• Fernanda Botelho. 2021. O ângulo raso, preface by Paula Morão, coord. Paula Morão, Abysmo/ CEComparatistas.
• Fernanda Botelho 2020. Gritos da minha dança, preface by Rita Patrício, coord. Paula Morão, Abysmo/ CEComparatistas.
• Fernanda Botelho. 2020. Lourenço é nome de jogral, preface by Paulo Alexandre Pereira, coord. Paula Morão, Abysmo/ CEComparatistas.
• Fernanda Botelho. 2018. A fábula e a gata, preface by Marcelo Oliveira, coord. Paula Morão, Abysmo/ CEComparatistas.
• Carina Infante do Carmo. 2020. Balanços literários 2017 e 2018 - Ensaio literário. In Associação Portuguesa dos Críticos Literários. Balanços Literários 2017 e 2018. Lisboa: Colibri, 2020. 11-24 e 59-68. ISBN 978-989-566-018-6. 
• Carina Infante do Carmo. 2020. Diálogo em Setembro e a projecção da figura de escritor em Fernando Namora. In Paula Morão (coord.). Fernando Namora - "E Não Sei Se o Mundo Nasceu". Lisboa / Vila Franca de Xira: Colibri/Associação Promotora do Museu do Neo-Realismo. 35-53. ISBN 978-989-566-024-7 
• Carina Infante do Carmo. 2020. A escrita da crónica e a figuração popular em Nos Mares do Fim do Mundo de Bernardo Santareno. Colóquio/Letras. n.º 204, Maio. 168-183. ISSN 0010-1451 
• Rita Patrício. 2020 - Osvaldo M. Silvestre e Rita Patrício, Conferências do Cinquentenário da Teoria da Literatura de Vítor Aguiar e Silva. Braga, UMinho Editora.