Empire, Colonial Wars and Post-colonialism in Contemporary Portuguese Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Empire, Colonial Wars and Post-colonialism in Contemporary Portuguese Literature write by Maria Margarida De Sa'Calafate Rebeiro. This book was released on 2001. Empire, Colonial Wars and Post-colonialism in Contemporary Portuguese Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Colonial Wars in Contemporary Portuguese Fiction
The Colonial Wars in Contemporary Portuguese Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Colonial Wars in Contemporary Portuguese Fiction write by Isabel Moutinho. This book was released on 2008. The Colonial Wars in Contemporary Portuguese Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Portuguese fiction that awakened public debate on imperialism The colonial wars in Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau in the 1960s and 1970s were Portugal's Vietnam. The novels discussed in this study, written by António Lobo Antunes, Lídia Jorge and Manuel Alegre among others, aroused passionate responses from the reading public and initiated a national debate, otherwise lacking in the contemporary press, with their systematic deconstruction of the rhetoric of patriotism and colonialism of António Salazar's regime. The author's approach is of necessity grounded in postcolonial thought, as these works represent the awakening of a post-imperial conscience in Portuguese literature and society. ISABEL MOUTINHO is a Lecturer in Spanish and Portuguese at La Trobe University, Australia.
The Last Empire
The Last Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Last Empire write by Stewart Lloyd-Jones. This book was released on 2003. The Last Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is the result of a conference organised by the Contemporary Portuguese Political History Research Centre (CPHRC) and the University of Dundee that took place during September 2000. The purpose of this conference, and the resulting book, was to bring together various experts in the field to analyse and debate the process of Portuguese decolonisation, which was then 25 years old, and the effects of this on the Portuguese themselves. For over one century, the Portuguese state had defined its foreign policy on the basis of its vast empire – this was the root of its 'Atlanticist' vision. The outbreak of war of liberation in its African territories, which were prompted by the new international support for self determination in colonised territories, was a serious threat that undermined the very foundations of the Portuguese state. This book examines the nature of this threat, how the Portuguese state initially attempted to overcome it by force, and how new pressures within Portuguese society were given space to emerge as a consequence of the colonial wars. This is the first book that takes a multidisciplinary look at both the causes and the consequences of Portuguese decolonisation – and is the only one that places the loss of Portugal's Eastern Empire in the context of the loss of its African Empire. Furthermore, it is the only English language book that relates the process of Portuguese decolonisation with the search for a new Portuguese vision of its place in the world. This book is intended for anyone who is interested in regime change, decolonisation, political revolutions and the growth and development of the European Union. It will also be useful for those who are interested in contemporary developments in civil society and state ideologies. Given that a large part of the book is dedicated to the process of change in the various countries of the former Portuguese Empire, it will also be of interest to students of Africa. It will be useful to those who study decolonisation processes within the other former European Empires, as it provides comparative detail. The book will be most useful to academic researchers and students of comparative politics and area studies.
The Colours of the Empire
The Colours of the Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Colours of the Empire write by Patrícia Ferraz de Matos. This book was released on 2013-02-01. The Colours of the Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Portuguese Colonial Empire established its base in Africa in the fifteenth century and would not be dissolved until 1975. This book investigates how the different populations under Portuguese rule were represented within the context of the Colonial Empire by examining the relationship between these representations and the meanings attached to the notion of ‘race’. Colour, for example, an apparently objective criterion of classification, became a synonym or near-synonym for ‘race’, a more abstract notion for which attempts were made to establish scientific credibility. Through her analysis of government documents, colonial propaganda materials and interviews, the author employs an anthropological perspective to examine how the existence of racist theories, originating in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, went on to inform the policy of the Estado Novo (Second Republic, 1933–1974) and the production of academic literature on ‘race’ in Portugal. This study provides insight into the relationship between the racist formulations disseminated in Portugal and the racist theories produced from the eighteenth century onward in Europe and beyond.
Gender, Empire, and Postcolony
Gender, Empire, and Postcolony - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gender, Empire, and Postcolony write by Anna M. Klobucka. This book was released on 2014-09-04. Gender, Empire, and Postcolony available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Analyzing a wide body of cultural texts, including literature, film, and other visual arts, Gender, Empire, and Postcolony: Luso-Afro-Brazilian Intersections is a diverse collection of essays on gender in Portuguese colonialism and Lusophone postcolonialism.
