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A crise económica na literatura portuguesa recente: casos de 2011 e 2013
The Economic Crisis in Recent Portuguese Literature: Cases of 2011 and 2013

Author(s): Serafina Martins
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Economic development, Present Times (2010 - today), Theory of Literature
Published by: KSIĘGARNIA AKADEMICKA Sp. z o.o.
Keywords: economical crisis; society; effects; Portuguese literature; transformation;

Summary/Abstract: This essay aims to analyse A instalação do medo e Índice médio de felicidade, two novels about the social and emotional effects of the most recent economic crisis, which began in 2008. Both are examples of how the Portuguese art was influenced by that crisis as well as of some relevant transformations occurring in Portuguese contemporary literature.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 18
  • Page Range: 243-258
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Portuguese