| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 203 pages) |
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Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone cultures ; 22 |
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Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone cultures ; 22.
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| Contents |
1. Women's Education, Nation and Late Empire -- Liberalism, Civilization and the Education of Women: Excluding Women from Politics -- The Uneducated Bourgeois Woman as Symptom of National Decadence -- Feminist Defenses of Women's Education and Republican Nationalism -- 2. Colonial Literature and Women: Variations on a Theme -- Colonial Propaganda and Women's Difference -- "Good Homemakers" for the Imperial Nation -- The African Native Between Colonial Fetish and Anti-colonial Symptom -- The Authority of Feminine Experience: Women Writers for "Suffering Souls" -- 3. "Making Empire Respectable": Between Miscegenation and Lusotropicalism -- I. From Complicity to Opposition -- Fleeing National Decadence: The Conversion Narratives of Maria Lamas -- The "Problem" of Miscegenation in the Portuguese Colonies -- Maria Archer's Miscegenation Melodramas -- II. From Lusotropicalism to Anti-colonialism -- Gilberto Freyre's Modern thinking on "Race" for an Outmoded Colonialism -- Maria da Graca Freire's Cautionary Tale of Lusotropicalism -- Maria Archer in Brazil: Turning Imperial Propaganda Against Colonialism -- 4. The Coloniality of Gender and the Colonial War -- Women and the Colonial War -- New Portuguese Letters and the Coloniality of Gender -- Testifying to the Trauma of the Colonial War -- Post-colonial Reflections on the Instrumentalization of "Love" -- 5. Lusotropicalist Entanglements in the Post-colonial Metropole -- I. "Racists are the Others"? -- II. Feminist Stories of Racial Entanglement -- What's in a Name? Intertextuality as a Mnemonic Device -- A Social Contract of Exclusions -- Calling It Like It Is: Racial Apartheid -- III. The Untold Stories of EXPO '98 |
| Summary |
This book represents the first attempt to query the contribution of women as cultural agents to the colonization, the anti-colonial opposition and the decolonization of territories ruled by Portugal in the African continent between the turn of the twentieth century and the early twenty-first. In contrast to the longstanding scholarship on the subject as regards other European empires, the entanglement of gender and colonialism has been ignored in the Portuguese case. Hence, this book takes a long view, surveying mostly little known historical and literary records that evince how "women" and "colonialism" were discursively constructed at particular points in time in view of a colonialist project that became the reason for being of the fascist authoritarian regime (1933-1974). Publisher description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-198) and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from website (Liverpool University Press, viewed February 19, 2021) |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Portuguese literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
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Imperialism in literature.
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Decolonization in literature.
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Postcolonialism in literature.
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Colonialism & imperialism.
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Literary studies: general.
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Literary Criticism -- European -- Spanish & Portuguese.
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Political Science -- Colonialism & Post-Colonialism.
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Literary Criticism -- General.
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Decolonization in literature.
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Imperialism in literature.
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Literature.
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Portuguese literature -- Women authors.
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Postcolonialism in literature.
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| SUBJECT |
Africa -- In literature
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| Subject |
Africa.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781789628241 |
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1789628245 |
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