“Luís de Camões between Europe and Asia”
“Luís de Camões entre a Europa e a Ásia”
PALESTRA
pelo Professor Kenneth David Jackson
na sequência dos dois dias de
Conferência Internacional na Universidade de Goa
sobre
“India-Portugal: Confluence of Cultures”
nos dias 6 e 7 jan. 2025.
10 JAN. 2025 | às 15h30 | no CLP-Camões
Organização:
Camões-CLP em Goa
Consulado-Geral de Portugal em Goa
e o curso de Portuguese and Lusophone Studies
da Shenoi Goembab School of Languages and Literature, Goa University
Sinopse:
"The verses that Camões must have written
during his seventeen years (1553-1569) in Asia
are a geography of his exile and tribulations.
His poetry is colored by confessions of loss and longing for Portugal,
usually addressed to a muse, and to his memories of another time.
Although his poems are filled with desperate complaints,
Camões excels in finding recourse in philosophy
and in the very tradition inherited from
Petrarch in which he writes and thinks.
He is the first great author to write European literature in Asia,
drawing on his vast knowledge of
classical literature, culture, history and philosophy.
"Kenneth David Jackson
is a professor of Luso-Brazilian literatures and cultures at Yale University.
His books range from South Asia, with Sing Without Shame (1990) on Portuguese creole folklore in Sri Lanka and India, Goa: A post-Colonial Society Between Cultures (2018),
to Portugal, with Camões and the First Edition of The Lusiadas (CD-ROM, 2003), Genres in Fernando Pessoa (2010), and to Brazil, with Machado de Assis: A Literary Life (2015) and Cannibal Angels: Transatlantic Modernism and the Brazilian Avant-Garde (2022).
His three CDs in “Journey of Sounds” were featured at EXPO ’98 in Lisbon.
In 2024 he was invited to the Literary Festival of Macau on the 500 years of Camões.
From 2024-27 he will again chair the Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies at Yale. Named to the International Advisory Board of the
Centro Interuniversitário de Estudos Camonianos at the Universidade de Coimbra (Portugal),
he is an academic member of the Academia de Marinha (Lisbon)
and the Academia Portuguesa de História (Lisbon)."
Redação: 21.01.2024