Women Writing Portuguese Colonialism in Africa / Ana Paula Ferreira . Volume 22

• Autore: Ferreira Ana Paula
• Pubblicazione: [s.l.] : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2020
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1 p.)
• Soggetto topico: Literary Criticism; Literature - History and criticism
• Soggetto non controllato: Women; Lusotropicalism; late European empires; Portuguese colonialism in Africa; colonialism; Gender; racism; Portuguese women writers
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Women Writing Portuguese Colonialism in Africa
• ISBN: 1-78962-824-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910645971603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures