In this paper we discuss Brazilian emigration towards Portugal by analysing its reworking in literary and cinematographic fiction. More specifically, we will consider the film Terra Estrangeira (1996) by Walter Salles Jr. ...

Critical work brings out the most intense and profound, subliminal motive of Foscolo’s “English” exile, which, in addition to its “added value” as an ethical-political paradigm and a political-civil institution, consists ...

Encarnación Aragoneses Urquijo (1886-1952), better known as Elena Fortún, was a famous Spanish children literature’s writer, whose work has been recently reconsidered, in the light of her complex and pioneering activity ...

The phenomenon of migration, broadly defined as the movement of people from one place to another, has highly increased in contemporary societies. This article deals with discursive expressions of Irish and Italian migrants, ...

In the present article some unpublished manuscripts preserved in Russian libraries and archives are presentedand examined: the cycle of “ocherki” Old Naples (1940), folkloristic sketches written by the painter Nikolai ...

The article reflects on the experience of exile and analyzes the poetry book Tempo angolano em Itália (1963). The verses of the Angolan poet Costa Andrade show the progressive affirmation of «fragile» nationalism, which ...

In this essay, the writer reflects on her own aesthetics, concerning the idea of “transient identity”, which is related both to intercultural migration, and to the interweaving of literary genres. In doing so, she deals ...

At the beginning of his Argentine exile from Galicia, the eclectic artist and politician Castelao staged a theatrical piece whose traditional, regionalist, comic-festive content and the wise literary use of galego seemed ...

Portuguese modernism was a heterogeneous movement consisting in distinct individualities that had in common the desire to bring about a profound renewal in Portuguese culture. This composite group of artists had in common ...

In the Exilliteratur, the rich production of texts in German language written by authors fled from Nazi Germany, the image of the island is recurrent. Real and imaginary islands represent places of distance and isolation ...