Welcome to the UF CLAS web page of
C H A R L E S A . P E R R O N E
Fall Semester 2008
Office Hours: MWF 8 or by appt.
Professor of Portuguese and Luso-Brazilian Culture
and Literatures
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
(see links there)
University of Florida Dauer Hall 170 Gainesville, Florida
32611-7405
General phones: (352) 392 2017; (352) 392 5679 fax
Affiliate faculty housed in the Center
for Latin American Studies
Office: Grinter Hall 335 University of Florida Gainesville,
Florida
32611-5530
Phones: (352) 392 2100 (direct); (352) 392 0375 (message); (352)
392 7682 (fax)
perrone@rll.ufl.edu
or perrone@ufl.edu
The following information is on this page:
Most recent classes
:
POW 4930-6930 Literature of the Brazilian Northeast
PRT 3930- LAS 4935 Jorge Amado and Bahian Imaginaries
syllabi linked, per UF policy, at http://plaza.ufl.edu/perrone
Also linked, several previous courses including PRT
3930
Empire to Integration:
Cultural Dimensions of Portuguese
Globalism,
and PRT 2490 Modern Brazilian Literature in
Translation, both cross listed as Women's Studies WST 3930
Portuguese program at
UF:
to see what's in the UF Undergraduate Catalogue, follow the DSP
Department link and go Majors/Minors and courses. To see the
section's major/minor description and sample course rotation, click
right here. To see graduate offerings, consult the Graduate
Catalogue
or clique aqui.
See also the Brazilian Studies specialization for MALAS (Master's
degree)
at the Center for Latin American Studies (link)
Courses Taught by myself:
(undergraduate /and graduate):
Luso-Brazilian Civilization; Brazilian Culture; Introduction to
Literature
in Portuguese; Introduction to Brazilian Literature I/II; Contemporary
Brazilian Narrative/ Twentieth-Century Brazilian Novel Contemporary
Brazilian
Poetry/ Brazilian Poetry-Brazilian Lyric; The Modernist Movement in
Brazilian
Literature; Fernando Pessoa and Portuguese Modernism; Special
Topic:
Literature of the Brazilian Northeast; Special Topics in
Luso-Brazilian
Civilization & Culture in Translation: Brazil Beyond the Modern;
Brazil
in Song; Modern Brazilian Literature in Translation. Spring
2005: Empire to Integration- Cultural Dimensions of Portuguese
Globalism
University of Florida
International Center
Summer Program in Portuguese and Brazilian Culture
at IBEU in Rio de Janeiro
Sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies, now in
partnership with
Georgetown University
S
(Application
deadline for summer 2009 will be April 1 for regular
applications. For fellowship awardees 4/15 will be OK.)
See also the DSP link
above and navigate to Portuguese / Study Abroad.
Link to this Program
Information Page at
the
business office, UFIC
- Overseas Programs - Latin America / Caribbean
See also the site
of
IBEU
in Rio and the colorful
site of the * co-director at UF:
Education
Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin, 1985, Luso-Brazilian
Literature
(and Spanish American Narrative)
M.A. University of California at Irvine, 1976, Hispanic Literatures
(and Brazilian Literature)
B.A. University of California at Santa Cruz, 1973, Literature,
Spanish and American
Publications 
Books:
Interfaces: Insularity, Invention,
Brazilian Lyric In/and the Americas. Forthcoming.
Seven Faces: Brazilian Poetry Since Modernism.
Durham,
NC: Duke University Press, 1996. (preface)
Masters of Contemporary Brazilian Song: MPB
1965-1985.
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1989.
[out of print, check web vendors]
Letras e Letras (da Música Popular
Brasileira).
Rio de Janeiro: Elo Editora, 1988.
*2nd ed. Rio: Booklink, 2008!
Edição Histórica. 20º
aniversário! Corrigida, com orelha de Augusto de Campos e
prefácio Amador Ribeiro Neto.
Books edited:
Brazilian
Popular Music and Globalization Contributing
co-editor
with Christopher J. Dunn. Gainesville, FL: University Press of
Florida,
2001. Paper edition by Routledge 2002. (summary
and table of contents)
First World Third Class and Other Tales of the Global Mix,
ed.
and co-trans. of Pau de Arara Classe Turística, Arca
sem
Noé: Histórias do Edifício Copan, and
other
stories by Regina Rheda.
With David Coles, Adria Frizzi and REYoung. Austin: University
of Texas Press 2005.
Taxi or Poem of Love in Transit, translation of Táxi
ou poema do amor passageiro by Adriano Espínola; edited with
critical afterwords New York: Garland Publishing, 1992.
Crônicas Brasileiras: Nova Fase. Gainesville:
University
Press of Florida, 1994.
With Richard A. Preto-Rodas and Al Hower. Second printing 2005.
Selected chapters, segments, and articles:
"De coYote a oroboro: las revistas brasileñas de
invención." Special issue on anthologies of Nerter [Islas Canarias]
(2007). E-version at revistazunai.
"ABC of AdeC: Reading Augusto de Campos." Review: Latin American Literature
and Arts 73, Special issue: Brazilian Writing and Arts
(Dec. 2006), 236-244.
"A poética da criação novo-mundista em Toda a
América." ArtCultura
[UFMG-Uberlândia] 8.12 (Fall 2006),117-129.
"O sopro do jazz, o lamento do blues, e a eletricidade do rock na atual
poesia brasileira." Revista
iberoamericana 173 (2006), 919-932.
"Dolce Vita: Sono-graphic Figuration, Tension and Resolution in
Onde andará Dulce Veiga?" Brasil Brazil 17.32 (2004), 51-70.
"Famished for Form: Haroldo de Campos and the Foundations of
Concrete
Poetry." In Haroldo de Campos: In memoriam. Ed. Bernard
McGuirk
and Else R. P. Vieira. London: Zoilus Press, in press
[2007].
"Estruturando apreciações e leituras
transamericanas." Foreword to Carlos Alberto Bessa, Poesia efêmera-Estruturas.
Rio de Janeiro: Especial, December 2006.
"VIVAVAIA Para entender Augusto de Campos VIA EUA." In Sobre Augusto de Campos. Ed.
Flora Sussekind and Júlio Castañón
Guimarães. Rio de Janeiro: Fundação
Casa de Rui Barbosa / 7letras, 2004. 209-218.
"A travessia da linguagem." Prosa
e verso (João Guimarães Rosa Special), O globo. March 11, 2006. p. 6.
Review of Haroldo de
Campos: A Dialogue with the Brazilian Concrete Poet. Luso Brazilian Review 43.1(Summer
2006). 133-136.
"Poetry, Brazil. " In Iberia and
the Americas: culture, politics, and history : a
multidisciplinary encyclopedia. Ed. J. Michael Francis.
(Transatlantic Relations Series). Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2006.
846-856.
"Chico Buarque sob a ótica internacional." In Chico
Buarque do Brasil: textos sobre as canções, o
teatro,
e a ficção de um artista brasileiro. Rio de
Janeiro:
Editora Garamond, 2004. 211-228. With Elizabeth Ginway and
Ataide Tartari. 
"Insular Outreach Moveable Outlook: Transamerican Currents in
Brazilian Lyric." Chásqui vol. 33, no. 1 (2004), 66-94.
"Signs of Intercourse: Material Poetry and Erotic
Imperatives."
Gragoatá
[UFF, RJ] 14 (Dec. 2003), 197-218. (illustrations:
signs
of intercourse)
"Que se danem ou não: Interrogations of Luso-Brazilian
Culture / Civilization and Interrelations of Literature." Luso-Brazilian
Review. vol. 40, no. 2 (Winter 2003), 89-110.
"Paulo Rónai, 'Notas para facilitar a leitura de J.
Guimarães
Rosa.'" Matraga [UERJ]13 (2002).
"Presentation and Representation of Self and City in Paulicéia
Desvairada." Chásqui vol. 31, no. 1 (2002),
18-27.
"Performing São Paulo: Vanguard Representations of a
Brazilian
Cosmopolis." LatinAmerican Music Review vol. 23, no. 1
(2002),
60-78. See
on line
"Nationalism, Dissension, and the Politics of Contemporary Popular
Music."
Luso-Brazilian
Review vol. 39, no. 1 (2002), 65-78.
"Resource and Resonance: A Story of Transamerican Poetics and
Brazilian Song in Global and Cultural Perspective." Luso-Brazilian
Review vol. 38., no. 2 (2001), 75-85.
Preface to
Adriano Espínola, 2nd. ed.
O lote clandestino. Rio
de Janeiro: Topbooks, 2002.
"From Lundu and Modinha to Samba de enredo and MPB: Popular
Music
in the Fiction of Jorge Amado." In K. Brower, E. Fitz, and E.
Martínez-Vidal,
eds. Jorge Amado: New Critical Essays. New
York:
Garland, 2001. 173-189.
"Myth, Melopeia, and Mimesis: Black Orpheus, Orfeu, and
Internationalization
in Brazilian Popular Music," in Brazilian Popular Music and
Globalization.
Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida, 2001. 46-71.
“Other Shores, Chores, and Lores,” afterword
to Outras
praias:
13 poetas brasileiros emergentes / Other Shores: 13 Emerging Brazilian
Poets(São Paulo: Iluminuras, 1998), 262-271.
"Do bebop e o Kaos ao Chaos e o triphop: dois fios
ecumênicos
no escopo semimilenar do tropicalismo." In Linha de pesquisa
[Rio]
1 (2001), 155-170.
"A recepção da obra rosiana na América do
Norte:
tradução, crítica e ensino." In Veredas de
Rosa.
Belo Horizonte, MG: CESPUC, 2000. 126-130.
“Topos and Topicalities: the Tropes of Tropicália and
Tropicalismo.”
Studies
in Latin American Popular Culture 19 (2000), 1-20. SLAPC is
on
line.
“A terceira margem do diabo: a recepção
norteamericana
da obra de João Guimarães Rosa.” Calibán2
(1999),
108-116.
"Don’t Look Back: Myths, Conceptions, and Receptions of Black
Orpheus." Studies in Latin American Popular Culture 17 (1998),
155-177.
"De Gregório de Matos a Caetano Veloso e 'Outras Palavras':
Barroquismo
na Música Popular Brasileira Contemporânea." In Affonso
Avila,
ed. Barroco- Teoria e Análise. São Paulo:
Perspectiva,
1997.
"João Guimarães Rosa through the Prism of Magic
Realism."
In Tropical Paths: Modern Brazilian Narrative. Randal Johnson,
ed.
New York: Garland Publishing, 1992.
"Pau-Brasil, Antropofagia, Tropicalismo: The Modernist Legacy
of Oswald de Andrade in Brazilian Poetry and Song of the
1960s-1980s."
In One Hundred Years of Invention: Oswald de Andrade and the
Modern
Tradition in Latin American Literature K. David Jackson,
ed
Austin: Abaporu Press 1992
"Endless Passage: João Guimarães Rosa." In
On Modern Latin American Fiction. New York: Noonday Press, 1989
"The Imperative of Invention: Brazilian
Concrete Poetry and 'Intersemiotic Creation'." Harvard Library
Bulletin
New Series 3: 2 (1992)
"Axé, Ijexá, Olodum: The Rise of Afro- and African
Currents
in Brazilian Popular Music. Afro-Hispanic Review 11: 1-3 (1992)
"Lyrical Passage(s): Verse, Song and Sense in Grande
Sertão:
Veredas." Luso Brazilian Review 27:1 (1990)
"Changing of the Guard: Questions and Contrasts of Brazilian
Rock
Phenomena." Studies in Latin American Popular Culture 9 (1990)
"Poesia
Concreta
e Tropicalismo." Revista USP 4 (Jan. 1990)
"Dissonance and Dissent: The Musical Dramatics of Chico
Buarque."
Latin
American Theater Review 22:2 (1989)
"From Noigandres to 'Milagre da Alegria': The Concrete Poets and
Contemporary
Brazilian Popular Music." Latin American Music Review 6:1
(Spring 1985)
"Camões contra a natureza: das impossibilia poéticas
ao
fim do mundo." Luso Brazilian Review 21:1 (Summer 1984).
Co-editor and contributor, "Concrete Poetry-Poesia Concreta:
Brazil
and Beyond." Brazilian Concrete and Visual Poetry from the
Ruth
and Marvin Sackner Archive. University of Florida: Grinter
Galleries.
March 1989. Rpt. for Brazilian Visual Poetry, MexicArte Museum,
Austin
TX, March 2002. On line exhibition
and text.
To link to further curriculum vitae information (fellowships,
awards,
editorial, professional-university-departmental service, conference
organization,
invited lectures and papers, cultural activities, et al.) click
here
Translations and Poetry
Co-editor of Tigertail: A South
Florida Poetry
Annual (2008). Tigertail Productions of Miami. 15 poets,
bilingual. www.tigertail.org
(navigate to on line sales)
Translations of poetry by Paulo
Leminski, Horácio Costa, Régis Bonvicino,
Décio
Pignatari, Augusto
de
Campos (two links to originals; see also Big Bridge Special Spring
2007) Antônio
Cícero, Ademir Assunção, Alexander Horner,
Adriano
Espínola, Carlito Azevedo, Ricardo Corona, Claudia
Roquette-Pinto,
Neuza Pinheiro, Rodrigo Garcia Lopes, Marcos Prado, and Waly
Salomão.
Co-translator of First World Third Class (Pau de Arara
Classe
Turística) by Regina Rheda, see link above
Poetry: SIX SEVEN,
chapbook at www.moriapoetry.com.
e-books link.
in Autumn
harvest,
Moria,
Moria,
Mandorla:
Nueva escritura de las Américas / New Writing from the Americas,
Literatura
de expressão portuguesa nos Estados Unidos;
Suplemento
Literário Minas Gerais, Dirty
Goat, Vortex
/ Affinities,Esprit, Dactylus,
O Globo, Fénix, Románica
** ATT NB visuals **: Dimensão
.
Inspirations: PESSOA
and a house
plan.
Some
recommended links to sites for
Brazilian
Literature and/or Culture (see also RLL site, Portuguese section)
lanic.utexas/brazil/
a collection of mostly institutional and industrial sites
sergiok/brasil
an ambitious personal page with endless links
maria-brazil
a wide-ranging personal page with cultural emphasis
caetano veloso once you
get past the vestibule, the best MPB-artist site of all
The
Brazilian Sound the
best all around MPB site, with so many features
BrazilMax
A fresh and
informed approach to Brazilian journalism and studies
2003-2004 Neikirk Term Professor of Humanities
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, UF
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