The Lusotropical Tempest: Postcolonial Debates in Portuguese

Organização da investigadora integrada do CICS Sheila Khan e publicação da University of Bristol.
“ By interrogating the interdisciplinary and theoretical methods which underpin Lusophone postcolonial studies as we map them onto a series of different but related case histories, the current volume sets out to expand the semantic and historical analysis of the “post” in postcolonialism, of the “luso” in lusophone, and of both “luso” and “tropical” as terms conjoined by Portuguese lusotropical ideology.  (…)” (KHAN et al., 2012)

Sheila Khan has worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Manchester University, Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, and at the Centro of Social Studies of the University of Coimbra. She is an integrated researcher at the Research Centre of Social Sciences of Minho University and she also worked at the Department of Social Anthropology of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology as a guest researcher. She received her PhD from the University of Warwick, Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations, did her Master degree at ISCTE , Lisbon, and finished her first degree at the University of Minho, in Portugal. Her research interests focus on postcolonialism (Mozambique and Portugal), African Mozambican immigrants in Portugal, History and Literature of Mozambique, life and identity narratives, memory, exile, autobiography, documentary, and the sociology of literature applied to social sciences. She is the author of Imigrantes Africanos Moçambique: Narrativa de Imigração e de Identidade e Estratégias de Aculturação em Portugal e na Inglaterra

Índice do Livro
Introduction.
Taming the Lusotropical Tempest Sheila Khan et. al.
1. Cruising “Camp” Sights in the 40s: Carmen Miranda and the creation of a Star-Image (Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez)
2. After the “Big Sweep”: Colonial Narratives and Second Class Citizens in Contemporary Portugal (Miguel Vale de Almeida
3. Caliban´s Travels (Ana Paula Ferreira)
4. Re-membering the Lusotropical: Deterritorialization, Reterritorialization and the Politics of memory (Ellen W. Sapega)
5. Lessons from the Margins: African Mozambican Immigrant´s Perceptions of a Postcolonial Portugal (Sheila Khan)
6. Bodies of Violence, Languages of Resistance (Maria Paula G. Meneses)
7. The importance of Love, Dream and Eroticism in “Post-Colonial” Mozambican poetry (Carmen Lúcia Tindó Ribeiro Secco)
8. Of Prison Walls and Barroom Brawls: Postcolonial Categories in Mia Couto´s “De Como se Vazou A Vida de Ascolino do Perpétuo Socorro” and Laxmanrao Sardessai´s “O Barco de África/ The Africa Boat” (Paulo Melo e Castro)
9. Imagining the Nation from Afar: Independence and the East Timorese Diaspora (Anthony Soares)
10. Silent Migrants (Paulo de Medeiros) Works cited Notes on contributors 

Ficha Técnica:
Páginas: 199
Editor: University of Bristol
ISBN: 978-0-9553922-8-3

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