Colonial and Post-Colonial Goan Literature in Portuguese: Woven Palms - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1786833905 ISBN 13 : 9781786833907

Editeur : University of Wales Press, 2019

Synopsis

This collection of essays brings together established scholars of Lusophone Goan literature from India, Brazil, Portugal and Great Britain. For the first time in English, this volume traces the key narrative works, authors and themes of this small but significant territory. Goa, a Portuguese colony between 1510 and 1961, was the site of a particular and particularly intense meeting of West and East. The problematic yet productive encounter between Europe and India that has characterised Goa's history is a major theme in its literature, which affords important insights and material for post-colonial thought. Goan literature in Portuguese is the only significant Indian literature to have been written in a European language other than English and, as such, provides both a challenging point of comparison with anglophone Indian literature and a space to examine post-colonial theory often implicitly embedded in a British Indian colonial experience.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Paul Melo e Castro is a lecturer in Portuguese and Comparative Literature at the University of Glasgow, where he teaches on both programmes and researches on subjects across literature, film and photography.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Wales Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1786833905
• ISBN 13: 9781786833907
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Éditeur: Melo E Castro Paul Michael
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