Gender, Empire, and Postcolony: Luso-Afro-Brazilian Intersections

by Anna M. Klobucka, H. Owen (Editor)

Overview

Analyzing a wide body of cultural texts, including literature, film, and other visual arts, Gender, Empire, and Postcolony: Luso-Afro-Brazilian Intersections is a diverse collection of essays on gender in Portuguese colonialism and Lusophone postcolonialism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137340993
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	09/04/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	229
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Leela Gandhi, University of Chicago, USA Ana Paula Ferreira, University of Minnesota, USA Patrícia Vieira, Georgetown University, USA Mark Sabine, University of Nottingham, UK Kimberly Cleveland, Georgia State University, USA Memory Holloway, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA Elise Dietrich, United States Military Academy, USA Maria Tavares, University of Macau, Macau Maria Irene Ramalho, University of Coimbra, Portugal Steven Gonzagowski, Dartmouth College, USA

Table of Contents

Introduction: Anna M. Klobucka and Hilary Owen PART I: LUSOTROPICALIST AFFECT AND ANTI-IMPERIAL ETHICS 1. Pessoa's Works on the Self: Toward an Anti-Imperial Askesis; Leela Gandhi, 2. Lusotropicalist Entanglements: Colonial Racisms in the Postcolonial Metropolis; Ana Paula Ferreira 3. Love Is All You Need: Lusophone Affective Communities after Freyre; Anna M. Klobucka PART II: EMPIRE OF THE LENSES: CINEMA AND THE POST/COLONIAL GAZE 4. Filming Women in the Colonies: Gender Roles in New State Cinema about the Empire; Patrícia Vieira 5. Colonial Masculinities under a Woman's Gaze in Margarida in Margarida Cardoso's A Costa dos Murmúrios ; Mark Sabine 6. Making War on the Isle of Love: Screening Camões in Manoel de Oliveira's Non, ou a Vã Glória de Mandar ; Hilary Owen PART III: POSTCOLONIALITY AND GENDER POLITICS IN VISUAL ARTS 7. Not Your Mother's Milk: Imagining the Wet Nurse in Brazil; Kimberly Cleveland 8. Salazar's Boots: Women, Power and Authority in the Work of Paula Rego; Memory Holloway 9. A Turma do Pererê : Visualizations of Gender in a Brazilian Children's Comic; Elise Dietrich PART IV: HEROES, ANTI-HEROES, AND THE MYTH OF POWER 10. Karingana Wa Karingana : Representations of the Heroic Female in Mozambique; Maria Tavares 11. Gender, Species and Coloniality in Maria Velho da Costa; Maria Irene Ramalho 12. Restelo Redux: Heroic Masculinity and the Return of the Repressed Empire in As Naus ; Steven Gonzagowski

Editorial Reviews

"Gender, Empire, and Postcolony is an outstanding collection of essays written by many prominent figures in the field of Lusophone Studies. It centers on cultural production in the realms of literature, cinema, painting, photography, sculpture, and comic books that highlights complex gendered dynamics operating at various junctures throughout the history of the Portuguese empire, as well as in its aftermath in Portugal, Mozambique, and Brazil. While individual essays are theoretically sophisticated, the volume as a whole opens new and exciting avenues of inquiry that will shape the field for years to come." - Fernando Arenas, Professor of Lusophone African, Portuguese, and Brazilian Studies, University of Michigan, USA

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