MLA Commons | Andrea Kouklanakis | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/members/andreakouklanakis/activity/ Activity feed for Andrea Kouklanakis. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:10:57 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 48588f20ddac9f8262cd1fa9db6d3030 Andrea Kouklanakis deposited Translating Luiz Gama: ‘No álbum do meu Amigo J.A. da Silva’ (In my friend’s album) https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1852968/ Thu, 27 Jul 2023 15:20:58 -0400 Luiz Gama’s poem ‘No Álbum do meu Amigo J.A. da Silva’ from the collection Primeiras Trovas Burlescas de Getulino (1859, 1861) is formulated as an extended recusatio in response to a friend’s request for a song. In this way, Gama apologizes for his inability to compose refined poems given his circumstances (he is poor and he is black). In this non…[Read more]

]]> 0 bab6d6a8f79316b6e11dec6712e18d2f Andrea Kouklanakis deposited Color Metamorphosis In Mário De Andrade’s Macunaíma And In Heliodorus’ Aethiopica https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1852967/ Thu, 27 Jul 2023 15:09:35 -0400 In Mário de Andrade’s novel Macunaíma, the eponymous hero is born ‘deep in the forest,’ ‘ink-black’ (retinto), and ugly. Macunaíma’s blackness becomes synonymous with ugliness, just as he becomes beautiful when he becomes white. This paper juxtaposes the circumstances of Macunaíma’s birth, the impression of the surrounding nature on his mother at…[Read more]

]]> 0 bddfe5c5e2fc67358a274377be87b45f Andrea Kouklanakis deposited From Cultural Appropriation to Historical Emendation/ Two Case Studies of Receptions of the Classical Tradition in Brazil https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1852964/ Thu, 27 Jul 2023 14:44:58 -0400 This book chapter treats of the appropriation of Greco-Roman classical material in the works of two Brazilian authors. One is Domício Proença Filho, a contemporary Afro-Brazilian poet, the other, Luís Câmara Cascudo, an ethnographer and folklorist writing during the first half of the twentieth century.

]]> 0 1e2e0253a994b52bb9a1a38a466a4fe9 Andrea Kouklanakis deposited “Roma Negra: Salvador, Brazil, and Afro-Latin American Classicisms.” https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1852960/ Thu, 27 Jul 2023 14:22:41 -0400 This article is an examination and discussion of the history of the term “Roma Negra” as a reference to the state of Bahia in Brazil, with implications for the study of trans-historical comparative slavery and the role of religion in the lives of the enslaved both in Bahia and in ancient Rome.

]]> 0 b27b3e3b51de832c6abbef8784e9caa3 Andrea Kouklanakis deposited Review: Untitled https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1852956/ Thu, 27 Jul 2023 14:08:42 -0400 This article is a book review of Peter Green’s 2015 translation of Homer’s Iliad.

]]> 0 0fa3688a85bd2f1f8f630ee9189f4951 Andrea Kouklanakis deposited “Representations of the Classics in the Works of Two Mulatto Writers in Brazil.” https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1852953/ Thu, 27 Jul 2023 13:58:36 -0400 This article is an examination of classicicisms in select works of Brazilian authors Luiz Gama and Machado de Assis.

]]> 0 8921e3e94ec5d6aaf0ec7dcfd0bc982b Andrea Kouklanakis deposited Algumas Considerações sobre a Tradução de Finismundo para o Inglês https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1852952/ Thu, 27 Jul 2023 13:42:48 -0400 Este trabalho é um comentário sobre a minha tradução de “Finismundo: a última viagem, poema de Haroldo de Campos.”

This article is a commentary on my translation of “Finismundo: the last voyage, a poem by Haroldo de Campos,” from Portuguese into English.

]]> 0 6c938f40c37ab50cbb7cccfbdf822bab Andrea Kouklanakis deposited Finismundo: The Last Voyage (from Finismundo: A Última Viagem by Haroldo de Campos) https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1852951/ Thu, 27 Jul 2023 13:25:23 -0400 In the first part of Finismundo, Haroldo de Campos recalls Dante’s solution and reimagines one last journey for the aging hero — a journey post-Ithaca. This is the ultimate journey, the one that puts adventure and the search for the unknown (hubris) above domestic peace. The gods, however, punish Odysseus. The shipwreck is inevitable, and it mar…[Read more]

]]> 0 750075f0bd9343555ab32eede40fa871 Andrea Kouklanakis's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1852915/ Wed, 26 Jul 2023 22:05:18 -0400 0 4f9bbfd5a147aee0bcc115cc41f18ed8 Andrea Kouklanakis deposited Thersites Odysseus and the Social Order https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1852885/ Wed, 26 Jul 2023 16:27:31 -0400 This article analyzes the speech of the Homeric character Thersites in Iliad 2, with a view to teasing out its sociological implications.

]]> 0 948f7eb649ee4d45a1d87ad451a11470 Andrea Kouklanakis changed their profile picture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1852873/ Wed, 26 Jul 2023 12:01:46 -0400 0