Imaginary Atlantic Islands: José Saramago's Iberian Utopia and Maria Gabriela Llansol's European �Communities�

• Autores: Raquel Ribeiro
• Localización: Bulletin of Hispanic studies ( Liverpool. 2002 ), ISSN 1475-3839, ISSN-e 1478-3398, Vol. 89, Nº. 7, 2012, págs. 769-786
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.3828/bhs.2012.58
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• Resumen

  • This article analyses Maria Gabriela Llansol's novel Da Sebe ao Ser (1988) and her concept of Europe as an Edenic space in comparison with two texts by the Portuguese Nobel laureate José Saramago, the novel A Jangada de Pedra (1986) and the short story O Conto da Ilha Desconhecida (1999). I demonstrate how Saramago and Llansol have conceived metaphorical Atlantic islands populated with migrant figures, questioning Portugal's complex relationship with Europe, Spain and its own colonial past, and the role of �lusofonia� in a postcolonial Iberia and a post-imperial Europe.