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About this Journal

Portuguese Cultural Studies or PCS is a peer-reviewed, open access journal designed to promote interdisciplinary, theoretical and cultural studies focused on the countries of the Portuguese-speaking world and its diasporas. Its chief aim is to combine multiple theoretical perspectives in the humanities and the social sciences and to function as a medium for the exploration of complex topics across national and cultural boundaries.


Special Issues in preparation

  • Literatura de Mulheres: Entre Trânsitos e Margens Afro-Luso-Brasileiras (Spring 2025)
    • Guest Editors Margarida Rendeiro and Susan de Oliveira
  • Ana Luísa Amaral (Fall 2025)
    • Guest Editors Ida Alves e Paulo de Medeiros
  • Contemporary Brazilian Indigenous Art and Literature (Spring 2026)
    • Guest Editors Leila Lehnen and Kathryn Sanchez
  • Transnational Histories of Portuguese Film (Fall 2026)
    • Guest Editors Mariana Liz and Patrícia Martinho Ferreira
  • Elemental Art and Media in the Luso-Afro-Brazilian World (Spring 2027)  
    • Guest Editors Inês Beleza Barreiros and Teresa Castro
  • Modernisms in Portuguese Language (Fall 2027)
    • Guest Editors Krista Brune and Tania Martuscelli

Volume 8 • Issue 2 • 2024 • José Saramago

Introduction


Introduction

Paulo de Medeiros

2025-01-01 Volume 8 • Issue 2 • 2024 • José Saramago • 1-3

Articles


Deontology and Consequentialism: Ethical Dilemmas in José Saramago’s All The Names

Hania A. M. Nashef

2025-01-01 Volume 8 • Issue 2 • 2024 • José Saramago • 4-19

“a lança em África” ou da questão colonial em José Saramago

Patricia Martinho Ferreira

2025-01-01 Volume 8 • Issue 2 • 2024 • José Saramago • 20-40

Les intermittences de la mort et Le voyage de l’éléphant : La vie, la mort et l’immortalité selon José Saramago 

Sílvia Amorim

2025-01-01 Volume 8 • Issue 2 • 2024 • José Saramago • 41-56

Surrounded by the Specters of Marx – Saramago in Central Europe 

Bálint Urbán

2025-01-01 Volume 8 • Issue 2 • 2024 • José Saramago • 57-79

In nomine dei – O artigo “o fator deus” marxianamente encenado

Vera Lopes da Silva

2025-01-01 Volume 8 • Issue 2 • 2024 • José Saramago • 80-98

José Saramago em correspondência: vestígios de uma vida antes do Nobel

Mariana Gonçalves

2025-01-01 Volume 8 • Issue 2 • 2024 • José Saramago • 99-121

Uma leitura d’A Maior Flor do Mundo: um exercício progymnástico na esteira das ressonâncias clássicas

Ana Isabel Correia Martins

2025-01-01 Volume 8 • Issue 2 • 2024 • José Saramago • 122-138

Reviews


Saramago After the Nobel - Contemporary Readings of José Saramago's Late Works

Ana Isabel Correia Martins

2025-01-01 Volume 8 • Issue 2 • 2024 • José Saramago • 139-144

Saramago, os seus nomes; um álbum biográfico

Jerónimo Pizarro

2025-01-01 Volume 8 • Issue 2 • 2024 • José Saramago • 145-147

25 de Abril, Sempre!

Paulo de Medeiros

2025-01-01 Volume 8 • Issue 2 • 2024 • José Saramago • 148-150