The Portuguese-speaking diaspora : seven centuries of literature and the arts / Darlene J. Sadlier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sadlier, Darlene J. (Darlene Joy), author.

Series:

Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Portuguese.

History.

Portuguese literature.

Ethnicity.

Portuguese.

Foreign countries.

Emigration and immigration.

Portugal--Emigration and immigration--History.

Portugal.

Portugal--Colonies--History.

Colonies.

Portuguese--Foreign countries--History.

Ethnicity--Portuguese-speaking countries.

Portuguese literature--History.

Art, Portuguese--History.

Portuguese-speaking countries.

Physical Description:

x, 286 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) maps (some color) ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2016.

Summary:

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. Book jacket.

Contents:

The imperial diaspora

The Lusophone African diaspora

Oriental imaginings and travel at the turn of the twentieth century

Into the wilderness : the race for Africa and the promise of Brazil

The Casa dos Estudantes do Império and mensagem

A Lusotropicalist tourist and soldiers, East Indians, and Cape Verdeans on the move

War in Africa and the global economy : leaving home and returning

Epilogue : the Portuguese-speaking diaspora and "Lusofonia".

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-272) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Sadlier, Darlene J. (Darlene Joy), author. Portuguese-speaking diaspora

ISBN:

9781477310526

1477310525

9781477311486

1477311483

OCLC:

945745598