The Violent Maintenance of the Portuguese Colonial Identity and the Search for a Postcolonial one: literary images of Portugal as a colonial and postcolonial nation

Through the examination of Camões's Os Lusíadas , Sena's Os Grão-Capitães and Saramago's A Jangada de Pedra , this article explores violence as a means of shaping Portuguese identity in different historical contexts, and how these works portray the continued recourse to violence as Portugal moves from colonizing to postcolonial nation.

In All The Worlds

This is a sequence of miniature pieces (totalling 30 minutes of music) for viola d'amore and string quartet, commissioned by Garth Knox for performance with Quatuor Bela (Paris.) Premiere will take place in Paris, November 2013.