Forthcoming: Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies (Spring 2024)
"Mapping the Public Rituals of the Portuguese Empire"
Guest Editors: Joana Fraga, Isabel Corrêa da Silva, and Lisa Voigt
Present in all spaces of the Portuguese empire—which in the early modern period extended to four continents—public rituals offer a unique lens to compare cultural and political practices in different geographies, and to study their transmission and transformation on a global scale. This special issue gathers articles that analyze and compare public rituals—including royal acclamations, solemn entries, religious processions, and autos-da-fé—in various areas of the Portuguese empire, from Lisbon to Macau, Goa, and Diu in Asia; Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro in Brazil; and Luanda in Africa. With a focus on the spatial dimensions of ritual and the ethnic diversity of participants, the essays illuminate the various agendas, tensions, and dialogues on display in public rituals, and challenge simplistic readings of the relationship of public ritual to power and discipline, harmony and hierarchy.
Joana Fraga é doutora pela Universidad de Barcelona (2013). Actualmente é investigadora na Universidad Complutense de Madrid. É autora de artigos e capítulos de livro sobre comunicação visual durante as revoltas de 1640, e sobre formas de resistência no império português. O seu actual projecto de investigação incide sobre a participação política das populações locais no império português nos séculos XVII e XVIII.
Isabel Corrêa da Silva é investigadora auxiliar do Instituto de Ciências Sociais, da Universidade de Lisboa e co-directora do Programa interuniversitário de Doutoramento em História. Tem trabalhado sobre cidadania e a construção das imagens do poder na monarquia constitucional portuguesa e no Brasil.
Lisa Voigt is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at The Ohio State University and Special Issues Editor of Colonial Latin American Review. Her publications include Writing Captivity in the Early Modern Atlantic: Circulations of Knowledge and Authority in the Iberian and English Imperial Worlds (2009) and Spectacular Wealth: The Festivals of Colonial South American Mining Towns (2016).
