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Tijdschrift voor MediageschiedenisThe Eurovision Song Contest states that ‘a rich history of promoting diversity [and] inclusivity’ is amongst its core values. Furthermore, the contest claims to able to ‘bridge differences and ignite a sense of shared community.’ Despite this, Catherine ...
Greg Cotton
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Exit ghost : reading Lusotropicalism as fetish (with Adorno) [PDF]
, 2018 The main aim of the essay is to critique lusotropicalism as a version, singular as it may be, of wider currents that attempt to mask and gloss over the operations of racism and their confluence with capital and patriarchy. I will draw on a number of thinkers and critics from Paul Gilroy to Étienne Balibar and Jacques Derrida and use concrete examples ...
Medeiros, Paulo de
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Lusotropical Romance: Camões, Gilberto Freyre, and the Isle of Love [PDF]
Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies, 2016 Abstract: Gilberto Freyre’s doctrine of Lusotropicalism, arguably the most influential of twentieth-century discourses legitimizing the survival of the Portuguese empire, was rooted to a significant degree in a foundational fantasy of erotic encounter between white explorers and Asian or African women.
Klobucka, Anna
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Cadernos de Estudos Africanos, 2014 In 1959 António Jorge Dias, anthropologist, was invited to lecture Portuguese Culture in the university of Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg. Since 1957 he had been carrying out research work in the north of Mozambique, in the Makonde Plateau, reporting his
Rui M. Pereira
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Estrangeiros em Mar Português: uma análise de Maremoto, de Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida [PDF]
VeredasThis article proposes an intertextual reading of Maremoto (2021), by Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida, with the purpose of observing the rewriting of certain symbols related to the semantic field of the Portuguese Sea from a post-colonial ...
Bárbara Chaves Cardoso
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, 2021 This article addresses the morpholinguistic and stylistice devices underwriting Freyre’s writing as the notion of “lusotropicalism” is advanced, mainly in the travelogue Aventura e rotina (1953) and the accompanying volume Um brasileiro em terras ...
MIRANDA, RUI
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The racial division of nature: Making land in Recife
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 46, Issue 2, Page 270-283, June 2021., 2021 In this paper I analyse the making and unmaking of amphibious urban modernity in Recife in the Northeast of Brazil between 1920 and 1950. I argue that the transformation of the city was predicated on an absorptive and eradicative notion of whiteness that necessitated the creation of dry, enclosed land.
Archie Davies
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The Plantationocene: A Lusotropical Contribution to the Theory [PDF]
Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 2021 In this article, I contribute to theorization of the modern era as the Plantationocene, a concept grounded in life on the land and centered around the role of the plantation in sustaining a raciali...
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Lusophony in perspective: panlusitanism, lusobrazilianism and lusotropicalism
Revista Portuguesa de História, 2018 Neste artigo circunscrevemos três conceitos debatidos na perspectiva lusófona e que foram propagados entre as décadas de 1930 e 1950. O panlusitanismo do Boletim da Sociedade Luso‘Africana do Rio de Janeiro que buscava a difusão ideológica das tradições lusitanas e a exaltação do vasto império colonial; o lusobrasileirismo do intelectual português Nuno
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Journal of Lusophone Studies, 2017 This study forges a tryptic partnership between the notions of Mamiwata, migrations, and miscegenation to examine selected works by Mia Couto, José Eduardo Agualusa, and Germano Almeida.
Niyi Afolabi
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