Women Writing Portuguese Colonialism in Africa / Volume 22 / Ana Paula Ferreira.
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 con...
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Superior document: | Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures |
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Place / Publishing House: | [s.l.] : : Liverpool University Press,, 2020. |
Year of Publication: | 2020 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 p.) |
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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). A cultural studies approach of radical contextualization informs each of the five main chapters, in which documents from a range of disciplines are brought to bear on the main problematic of the female-authored works in focus. The latter are all written in the metropole as a place of colonial return and critical reflection. Beyond recuperating women's voices, this book suggests a story of Portuguese colonialism in the African continent that is anything but Lusotropicalist. |
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ISBN: | 1789628245 |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Ana Paula Ferreira. |