The Portuguese-Speaking Diaspora: Seven Centuries of Literature and the Arts

Darlene J. Sadlier

Published by University of Texas Press 2016

The Portuguese-Speaking Diaspora

Seven Centuries of Literature and the Arts

Darlene J. Sadlier

https://doi.org/10.7560/310526

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Long before the concept of “globalization,” the Portuguese constructed a vast empire that extended into Africa, India, Brazil, and mid-Atlantic territories, as well as parts of China, Southeast Asia, and Japan. Using this empire as its starting point and spanning seven centuries and four continents, The Portuguese-Speaking Diaspora examines literary and artistic works about the ensuing diaspora, or the dispersion of people within the Portuguese-speaking world, resulting from colonization, the slave trade, adventure seeking, religious conversion, political exile, forced labor, war, economic migration, and tourism.

Based on a broad array of written and visual materials, including historiography, letters, memoirs, plays, poetry, fiction, cartographic imagery, paintings, photographs, and films, The Portuguese-Speaking Diaspora is the first detailed analysis of the different and sometimes conflicting cultural productions of the imperial diaspora in its heyday and an important context for understanding the more complex and broader-based culture of population travel and displacement from the former colonies to present-day “homelands.” The topics that Darlene J. Sadlier discusses include exploration and settlement by the Portuguese in different parts of the empire; the Black Atlantic slave trade; nineteenth-century travel and Orientalist imaginings; the colonial wars; and the return of populations to Portugal following African independence. A wide-ranging study of the art and literature of these and other diasporic movements, this book is a major contribution to the growing field of Lusophone studies.

Author / Editor information

Darlene J. Sadlier is professor emerita of Spanish and Portuguese at Indiana University Bloomington. Her previous books include Americans All: Good Neighbor Cultural Diplomacy in World War II and Brazil Imagined: 1500 to the Present.

Reviews

Highly recommended for courses on diversity, history and cultural studies, undergraduate and graduate students and researchers.

— Choice

Sadlier's work offers a wide-ranging survey of diasporic literature and art of the Portuguese Empire. It creatively uses an impressive diversity of sources and media to reveal perspectives reaching beyond the standard Portuguese literary canon. Moreover, the global scope of the work is ambitious...The Portuguese-Speaking Diaspora consistently explores themes of estrangement, disillusion, and longing in colonialism.

— Latin American Research Review

This is a pioneering work and the first in English to undertake a comprehensive treatment of the Portuguese-speaking diaspora with an interdisciplinary approach centered in arts and literature. This is a much-needed and valuable undertaking, one of vast scope.

— K. David Jackson, Yale University, author of Machado de Assis: A Literary Life and editor of Oxford Anthology of the Brazilian Short Story

An extensive survey of diasporic literature and art of the Portuguese Empire...The book is an important source to study the culture of Portuguese territories
in the East...a pleasant reading experience for all those who are interested in understanding the Portuguese diaspora.

— Insight on Africa

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter One. The Imperial Diaspora Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	8
Chapter two. The Lusophone African Diaspora Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
Chapter three. Oriental Imaginings and Travel at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
Chapter four. Into the Wilderness: The Race to Africa and the Promise of Brazil Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
Chapter five. The Casa dos Estudantes do Império and Mensagem Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	140
Chapter six. A Lusotropicalist Tourist and Soldiers, East Indians, and Cape Verdeans on the Move Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
Chapter seven. War in Africa and the Global Economy: Leaving Home and Returning Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	190
epilogue. The Portuguese-Speaking Diaspora and “Lusofonia” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
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Language: English
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 314

eBook

Published: November 15, 2016
ISBN: 9781477310533