12 February 2022
Written within the literary conventions of the Romantic movement and published decades before other Brazilian abolitionist novels, Ursula (1859) offers a sensitive and nuanced portrayal of enslaved African and Afro-Brazilian characters. While readers follow the story of the plantation owner’s daughter Ursula, her doomed romance with Tancredo, and her uncle’s diabolical schemes to entrap her […]
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31 January 2022
By Frank Ferreira An “Open Letter” to the Portuguese Diaspora Around the World. An In-Person Audience with the President of the Republic Sought. The Next Government Must Reform the Electoral System – “No Voter Should be Denied their Constitutional Right of Suffrage. If No Reforms, The Matter Will be Taken to the European Court of […]
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31 January 2022
Portuguese voters delivered a surprising absolute majority to incumbent Prime Minister António Costa, the head of the ruling Socialist Party (PS) who won the Sunday’s snap general election. António Costa is serving as the current Prime Minister of Portugal since 26 November 2015. The Socialist Party (PS) won 117 seats in the 230 seat parliament, […]
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30 January 2022
Gularte’s identification with herself through the natural world and through the lives of others with whom she feels more than just symbolic empathy, provides us with something unique to the usual landscape that poetry’s created in our late 20th and early 21st century: passion. Engaged to the particular, Gularte brings us closer to a world […]
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27 January 2022
By Vamberto Freitas I’ve read and written about the poetry of Millicent Borges Accardi before. Yet I always make a point of never revisiting what I’ve already written. By writing regular criticism or literary essays on individual authors one always runs the risk of sub-consciously repeating ourselves. Suffice to say that Millicent is not only […]
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23 January 2022
By Len Port In the run-up to Portugal’s national legislative election, it’s worth remembering that this country is internationally recognized as a stable parliamentary democracy with a multiparty political system and free and fair elections every four years – except the timing of this latest is different. The Prime Minister holds the most executive power […]
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