The Colonial Wars in Contemporary Portuguese Fiction (MonografÃ­as A) (Monografías A)
Publisher: Tamesis Books; Tamesis
Published: January 17, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9781855661585
Subjects: Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Portuguese; Portugal; Spain; European - Spanish & Portuguese; Literature & Fiction / Literary Criticism; Literary Criticism & Collections / Spanish & Portuguese; Literature: History & Criticism
Description: "The colonial wars in Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau in the 1960s and 1970s were Portugal's Vietnam. The novels discussed in this study, written by Antonio Lobo Antunes, Lidia Jorge and Manuel Alegre among others, aroused passionate responses from the reading public and initiated a national debate, otherwise lacking in the contemporary press, with their systematic deconstruction of the rhetoric of patriotism and colonialism of Antonio Salazar's regime. The author's approach is of necessity grounded in postcolonial thought, as these works represent the awakening of a post-imperial conscience in Portuguese literature and society."--Jacket.