Imaginary geographies in Portuguese and Lusophone-African literature
Subtitle: narratives of discovery and empire
By: Luis Madureira.
Publisher: E. Mellen Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Lewiston [N.Y.]
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780773454835
Subjects: Portuguese literature -- History and criticism; Imperialism in literature; Politics and literature -- Portugal; Colonies in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The accident of America : marginal notes on Portugal's Asian empire; title: Un hombre de su tiempo : Columbus and the order of knowledge of 16th-Century Europe; title: Where the land ends and the sea begins : the margins of a littoral empire; title: The specular kingdom : China and the closure of Portuguese expansion; title: A supplement to the white man's burden : history, the April Revolution and  the struggle for decolonization in contemporary Portuguese fiction; title: Memories of a sea in ruins : romancing the fall of the Colonial empire; title: The empire's 'death-drive' and the wars of national liberation; title: The April Revolution, or, the desire for an absence of history; title: The persistent flight of strayed and weary birds : the demand and the predicament of Mia Couto's 'White Writing'; title: Foregrounding "the backyard of the world": the difference between narration and its (subaltern) subjects; title: An inevitable demolition of the colonial mo(nu)ment : popular illusions and official dreams of nationhood; title: What lies beyond the edge of the world : national liberation and the locations of the future; title: The surplus historicity of a discarded army boot : political violence and the 'withering away' of the postcolonial nation-state