02811nam 22005053a 450 991064597160332120211214195607.01-78962-824-510.3828/9781789622317(CKB)4100000011644885(ScCtBLL)8a393ad0-1522-4695-bd25-608f512d638f(PPN)266444520(EXLCZ)99410000001164488520211214i20202021 uu enguru||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierWomen Writing Portuguese Colonialism in AfricaAna Paula FerreiraVolume 22[s.l.] :Liverpool University Press,2020.1 online resource (1 p.)Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures1-78962-231-X 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.Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone CulturesLiterary CriticismbisacshLiteratureHistory and criticismWomenLusotropicalismlate European empiresPortuguese colonialism in AfricacolonialismGenderracismPortuguese women writersLiterary CriticismLiteratureHistory and criticismFerreira Ana Paula1276308ScCtBLLScCtBLLBOOK9910645971603321Women Writing Portuguese Colonialism in Africa3007519UNINA