Este trabalho estuda a inserção da História na Literatura, abordando a Tetralogia Lusitana, de Almeida Faria, conjunto de quatro romances deste autor, publicados entre 1965 e 1983. Procura comprovar que um evento histórico fundamental para o povo português, como a Revolução dos Cravos, redireciona a produção do escritor Almeida Faria fazendo-o, a partir do romance A Paixão, de 1965, desenvolver um projeto literário intratextual. A consciência histórica, assim, se retroprojeta modificando o tempo no primeiro romance e sua leitura, atribuindo-lhe novos sentidos. O mito é elemento importante na criação/desvelamento da obra, tanto na sua utilização como alegoria do universo fechado a que ele se refere, quanto no posterior aproveitamento em termos críticos, uma vez que as personagens buscam fugir da mitificação do processo revolucionário, negando os antigos discursos unificadores e buscando sempre uma postura antiépica. Neste sentido, utilizamos referenciais teóricos diferenciados para cada romance da Tetralogia Lusitana, como a crítica do imaginário de Gilbert Durand, o conceito de História de Walter Benjamin, a polifonia, o dialogismo, a intertextualidade, a carnavalização e a paródia de acordo com Mikail Bakhtin e os estudos de Eduardo Lourenço sobre a identidade portuguesa. Nosso método consistiu, portanto, no estudo comparativo dos quatro romances da Tetralogia Lusitana e na simultânea análise de cada um deles, reconhecendo suas peculiaridades e, ao mesmo tempo, o papel que ocupam neste conjunto. Tal abordagem permitiu comprovar as hipóteses lançadas, fazendo-nos chegar à conclusão de que Almeida Faria, através de sua literatura, mostra um povo que busca novos caminhos e uma nova idéia de pátria, onde o ser português passa pelo descentramento, alimenta-se da integração de várias etnias e se abre sempre para novas possibilidades. Ao analisar o tratamento ficcional que o autor dá ao processo revolucionário no Portugal contemporâneo e seus desdobramentos históricos, pretendemos também contribuir para a crítica relativa à Literatura Portuguesa pós-revolução / This work studies the History’s insertion in Literature, approaching the Tetralogia Lusitana of Almeida Faria, which is a group of four romances, published by this author between 1965 and 1983. It seeks to prove that a fundamental historical event for the Portuguese people, as the Carnation Revolution, redirects Almeida Faria's production making him develop a intratextual literary project, starting from the romance “The Passion”, of 1965. Thereby, the historical conscience retro-projects itself, modifying the time and attributing new meanings to the first romance reading. The myth is an important element in the creation-unveiling of the work - as allegory to the closed universe referred, as much as in a subsequent use in critical terms - once the characters seek to escape the mythicizing of the revolutionary process, denying the unifying old speeches, always looking for an anti-epic attitude. In this sense, we used distinct theoretical references for each romance of the Tetralogia Lusitana, as the Gilbert Durand’s imaginary critics, the Walter Benjamin’s concept of History, the polyphony, the dialogism, the intertextuality, the carnivalization and the parody according to the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, and the Eduardo Lourenço's studies about the Portuguese identity. Our method consisted, therefore, in a comparative study of the Tetralogia Lusitana’s four romances and in a simultaneous analysis of each one of them, recognizing their peculiarities and, at the same time, their individual role in the group. Such approach allowed to prove the previous hypotheses, making us to conclude that Almeida Faria, through his literature, shows a people looking for new roads and a new homeland idea, where the “being Portuguese” feeling crosses concepts as decentralization, feeding itself from an ethnic integration, always opened for new possibilities. When analyzing the fictional treatment given by the author to the revolutionary process in a contemporary Portugal and in its historical unfolding, we also intended to contribute to the Portuguese post-revolution literature studies.

Este trabalho estuda a inserção da História na Literatura, abordando a Tetralogia Lusitana, de Almeida Faria, conjunto de quatro romances deste autor, publicados entre 1965 e 1983. Procura comprovar que um evento histórico fundamental para o povo português, como a Revolução dos Cravos, redireciona a produção do escritor Almeida Faria fazendo-o, a partir do romance A Paixão, de 1965, desenvolver um projeto literário intratextual. A consciência histórica, assim, se retroprojeta modificando o tempo no primeiro romance e sua leitura, atribuindo-lhe novos sentidos. O mito é elemento importante na criação/desvelamento da obra, tanto na sua utilização como alegoria do universo fechado a que ele se refere, quanto no posterior aproveitamento em termos críticos, uma vez que as personagens buscam fugir da mitificação do processo revolucionário, negando os antigos discursos unificadores e buscando sempre uma postura antiépica. Neste sentido, utilizamos referenciais teóricos diferenciados para cada romance da Tetralogia Lusitana, como a crítica do imaginário de Gilbert Durand, o conceito de História de Walter Benjamin, a polifonia, o dialogismo, a intertextualidade, a carnavalização e a paródia de acordo com Mikail Bakhtin e os estudos de Eduardo Lourenço sobre a identidade portuguesa. Nosso método consistiu, portanto, no estudo comparativo dos quatro romances da Tetralogia Lusitana e na simultânea análise de cada um deles, reconhecendo suas peculiaridades e, ao mesmo tempo, o papel que ocupam neste conjunto. Tal abordagem permitiu comprovar as hipóteses lançadas, fazendo-nos chegar à conclusão de que Almeida Faria, através de sua literatura, mostra um povo que busca novos caminhos e uma nova idéia de pátria, onde o ser português passa pelo descentramento, alimenta-se da integração de várias etnias e se abre sempre para novas possibilidades. Ao analisar o tratamento ficcional que o autor dá ao processo revolucionário no Portugal contemporâneo e seus desdobramentos históricos, pretendemos também contribuir para a crítica relativa à Literatura Portuguesa pós-revolução / This work studies the History’s insertion in Literature, approaching the Tetralogia Lusitana of Almeida Faria, which is a group of four romances, published by this author between 1965 and 1983. It seeks to prove that a fundamental historical event for the Portuguese people, as the Carnation Revolution, redirects Almeida Faria's production making him develop a intratextual literary project, starting from the romance “The Passion”, of 1965. Thereby, the historical conscience retro-projects itself, modifying the time and attributing new meanings to the first romance reading. The myth is an important element in the creation-unveiling of the work - as allegory to the closed universe referred, as much as in a subsequent use in critical terms - once the characters seek to escape the mythicizing of the revolutionary process, denying the unifying old speeches, always looking for an anti-epic attitude. In this sense, we used distinct theoretical references for each romance of the Tetralogia Lusitana, as the Gilbert Durand’s imaginary critics, the Walter Benjamin’s concept of History, the polyphony, the dialogism, the intertextuality, the carnivalization and the parody according to the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, and the Eduardo Lourenço's studies about the Portuguese identity. Our method consisted, therefore, in a comparative study of the Tetralogia Lusitana’s four romances and in a simultaneous analysis of each one of them, recognizing their peculiarities and, at the same time, their individual role in the group. Such approach allowed to prove the previous hypotheses, making us to conclude that Almeida Faria, through his literature, shows a people looking for new roads and a new homeland idea, where the “being Portuguese” feeling crosses concepts as decentralization, feeding itself from an ethnic integration, always opened for new possibilities. When analyzing the fictional treatment given by the author to the revolutionary process in a contemporary Portugal and in its historical unfolding, we also intended to contribute to the Portuguese post-revolution literature studies.

My thesis serves two purposes: First, my research addresses what I have come to recognize as colonial misunderstandings of nuu-chah-nulth ha'wiih. My research and writing invoke new ways of thinking about nuu-chah-nulth people, leaders and knowledge. I accomplish this by writing conversationally and by including unedited interviews and poetry. All of which require readers to consider my research outside of their usual perspective. Second, my research responds to a cultural need to archive important family knowledge while providing the opportunity to define, for outsiders, who we are. The interviews archive, in part, the knowledge and teachings of a cha-cha-tsi-us-aht ha'wilth. My analysis of this information shows that while my family’s knowledge comes from a common source. We all interpret that knowledge in our own way. My research is important academically and politically because of its ability to convey knowledge that has not been simplified, appropriated or colonized for public consumption.

The dissertation under the title Transformations of the Concept of House (An Analysis of the House in the 20th Century Portuguese Novel) endeavours to map the concept, portrayal and primarily the transformations of the space of a house, which is at the same time interpreted as an archetypical space universal in the 20th century Portuguese novel. Following the introduction and a summary of various literary theory approaches to the analysis of a house, Chapter 2 focuses in particular on a topological analysis and an analysis of the symbolic space. The topos of the house is fundamental for thematology and literary topology. A house, representing either a dwelling place, a temporary refuge or a home, is an essential space in the majority of literary stories; it is a certain static counterpart to a literary character, it forms their background or represents an aim to which they are heading. Its organization may reflect a character's nature or emphasize a significant contradiction between the space and the human being inhabiting it. As the role, function, form and significance of a literary character and of other constitutive elements of a narrative text were transformed in the course of the 20th century, the concept of the space of a house also underwent significant changes. Chapter 3 of the...