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Redeeming the Old South in David O. Selznick’s Gone with the Wind
Silva, Edgardo Medeiros, 1961-David O. Selznick’s filmic adaptation of Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind (1936) is informed by the same kind of Romantic nostalgia we find in the pages of this timeless award-winning novel, offering its viewers a conflicting vision over the nature and significance of the period of time which followed the end of the American Civil War. Northerners understood that period as one of “Reconstruction”, whereas...
A Strange Kind of Feeling: Conflict and Alliance in Literature on Screen - Inte...
Jorge, Lídia; Ramos, Suzana; Silva, Edgardo MedeirosInterview with Lídia Jorge
Lessons from the Past: The Panic of 1893
Silva, Edgardo MedeirosDoes financial bankruptcy on a national level imply failure on a personal plane? To what extent does national financial meltdown undermine individual identity and consciousness? Can personal loss of identity and confidence be transposed onto the national level? And what about one’s self-worth, does it become a “valueless currency” as well? I wish to examine in this paper the Panic of 1893 through the eyes of He...
The Powerless Diplomacy of the Abbé Correia da Serra
Silva, Edgardo Medeiros, 1961-This paper examines the diplomatic activity of the Abbé Correia da Serra (1751-1823), the first Portuguese Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States, in connection with the use of American ports by privateers preying on Portugal’s commerce with Brazil, its South American colony. Despite his connections to the political and intellectual circles in the United States capital at the time, and the justness of Po...
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