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Empty Fathers Corruptions of Fatherhood in Portuguese Literature by Phillip Rothwell Publisher: Edições Afrontamento, December 2023 "Empty Fathers" analyzes the peculiar and recurrent deployment of the paternal figure in Portuguese literary texts from the early nineteenth century to the present. In this volume, Phillip Rothwell argues for the existence of a specifically Portuguese tendency toward what he terms "empty fatherhood"—a corruption of the Lacanian paternal function that has continuously surfaced in Portuguese culture since the fifteenth century. Highlighting patterns of reception surrounding historical figures such as Prince Henry the Navigator, King Sebastian, Sidónio Pais, and Salazar, Rothwell offers a set of innovative readings of texts by Eça de Queirós, Almeida Garrett, Helder Macedo, António Lobo Antunes, José Régio, Gomes de Amorim, José Cardoso Pires, and António Ferro. Rothwell reveals how the contradiction of an asexual fatherhood operating at the national level is merely one facet of an unrestrained paternal function, whose other distortions entail, on certain occasions, excessive prohibition and, on others, the equally oppressive obligation to enjoy. Book in good condition. Price non-negotiable. Shipping is handled via CTT; payment by bank transfer or MB Way; postage is free via editorial mail.