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C H A R L E S  A . P E R R O N E

Summer Semesters 2009
Office Hours:   by appt.

Professor of Portuguese and Luso-Brazilian Culture & Literatures
Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies (see links there)
University of Florida  Dauer Hall 170 Gainesville, Florida 32611-7405
General phones:  (352) 392 2016;  (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@ufl.edu


The following information is on this page:

 Recent past classes : 
POW 4450/6930 The Modernist Movement in Brazilian Literature
POW 4930/6930 Literature of the Brazilian Northeast
PRT 3930/LAS 4935  Jorge Amado and Bahian Imaginaries
and current 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 SPS 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

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(Application deadline for summer 2009  has passed.  Ver-nos-emos no Rio!)

See also the DSPS 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:

Brazil, Lyric, and the Americas. Forthcoming UPF [Jan. 2010].

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.
Review by Salgado Maranhão!

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 since 2000:

"Bons tons diversos versos:  Antônio Carlos Jobim, parceiros, e a poética da Bossa Nova." Letterature d'America 29.119 (2009), 5-25.

"Três séculos, três Américas:  irmandades épicas e imperativos hemisféricos."  Revista Via Atlântica 11 (2009), 153-63.

"Notas para facilitar a leitura de 'Meu tio o iauaretê'." Hispania 91.4 (2008), 766-74.

"Versatile Vanguard Vectors:  from Visible Voices to Virtual Vortices in the Vamps, Versions, and Voyages of Brazilian Concrete Poetry". On line at
www.poesiaconcreta.com at the TEXTO section.  See the FIGURES here:  VVVimages.

"De coYote a oroboro:  las revistas brasileñas de invención."  Special issue on anthologies  of Nerter [Islas Canarias]  (2007). E-version at revistazunai.

"Do bebop e o Kaos ao Chaos e o triphop:  dois fios ecumênicos no escopo semimilenar do tropicalismo." in Nelson Barros da Costa,ed.  O charme dessa nação (Discurso, cotidiano e práticas culturais da Música Popular Brasileira).  Fortaleza:  UFEC-SECULT, 2007. 283-301.

"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.  ON LINE!!

"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.

"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.

"The Imperative of Invention: Brazilian Concrete Poetry and 'Intersemiotic Creation'." Harvard Library Bulletin New Series 3: 2 (1992)

Pre-2000 on line:

"Poesia Concreta e Tropicalismo." Revista USP  4 (Jan. 1990)

"From Noigandres to 'Milagre da Alegria': The Concrete Poets and Contemporary Brazilian Popular Music." Latin American Music Review  6:1 (Spring 1985).  If you are subscribed to LAMR via library.

"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)
See fotos (authors and friends) of Launch in April 2007.

“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.

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, Simone Homem de Mello, Diego Vinhas, Franklin Alves Dassiê and o saudoso 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.



 
Drawing by Patricia R. Perrone,  Women's Art Collective
(other images by the artist)


Some recommended links to sites for Brazilian Literature and/or Culture (see also DSPS 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

last update January 17, 2009

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