A historical companion to postcolonial literatures : continental Europe and its empires

Poddar, Prem, (editor.). Patke, Rajeev S. (Rajeev Shridhar), (editor.). Jensen, Lars, (editor.).

Summary: Provides an integrated and authoritative body of information about the political, cultural and economic contexts of postcolonial literatures that have their provenance in the major European Empires of Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain as well as places like Latin America and the Philippines.

Record details

ISBN: 0748644822
ISBN: 9780748644827
ISBN: 9780748623945
ISBN: 0748623949
ISBN: 0748630279
ISBN: 9780748630271
ISBN: 1849724539
ISBN: 9781849724531
Physical Description: 1 online resource (liii, 633 pages) : maps
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Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2008.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Includes graphical cross-reference mapper.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction / Phillip Rothwell -- Anthropology and Ethnography / Miguel Vale de Almeida -- Anti-colonial Struggles / David Robinson -- The Brazilian Independence Process / Claire Williams -- Amílcar Cabral / Claire Williams -- The Carnation Revolution / Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez -- Charter Companies/Prazos / Corrado Tornimbeni -- Creolisation and Creoleness / David Brookshaw -- Explorations and Discoveries / Isabel Moutinho -- FRELIMO (Mozambique) / David Robinson -- FRETILIN and Xanana Gusmão / Anthony Soares -- The Frontline States / David Robinson -- Goa / Claire Williams -- Henry the Navigator / Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez -- Historiography / Phillip Rothwell -- Independence Movements (Azores and Madeira) / Carmen Maria Ramos Villar -- The Liberation Wars and Decolonisation / Norrie MacQueen -- Lusophone African Literature / Russell Hamilton -- Lusotropicalism, Race and Ethnicity / Anna Klobucka -- Samora Machel / Branwen Gruffydd Jones -- Eduardo Mondlane / Branwen Gruffydd Jones -- Moorish Portugal / Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez -- MPLA (Angola) / Hélia Santos -- Agostinho Neto / Branwen Gruffydd Jones -- Orientalism in the Lusophone World / Ana Maria Mão-de Ferro Martinho -- Overseas Provinces/The Colonial Act / Robert Moser -- PAIGC (Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde) / Claire Williams -- Pepetela / Igor Cusack -- Postcolonial African Immigration to Portugal / Sheila Khan -- RENAMO (Mozambique) / David Robinson -- Salazar and the New State / Victor J. Mendes -- Dom Sebastião / Phillip Rothwell -- Slavery and Abolition / David Brookshaw -- Timor and Indonesia : shared currents / Anthony Soares -- UNITA (Angola) / Hélia Santos -- Vasco da Gama / Claire Williams -- Women's Histories / Hilary Owen -- Part IX. Spain, Latin America and The Philippines -- Introduction / Elizabeth Monasterios -- The Andean Avant-Garde / Elizabeth Monasterios -- Andean Textiles / Denise Arnold -- Anti-Colonial Struggle / Arturo Arias -- Arturo Borda / Elizabeth Monasterios -- 'Calibán' / John Beverley -- Christian Influences on Philippine Society / Dante L. Ambrosio -- Colonial Baroque / John Beverley -- Colonialism and Popular Culture / Denise Arnold -- Discovery and Conquest / Gonzalo Lamana -- Uriel Garcia / Elizabeth Monasterios -- Hibridación (Hybridity) / Joshua Lund -- Indigeneity / Gustavo Verdesio -- Indigenismo and Mestisaje / Javier Sanjinés -- Latin American Critical Thought / Michael Handelsman -- Marianisation in the Philippines / Evelyn A. Miranda -- Marronage and Rebellion / Juan Antonio Hernández -- The Philippines-Mexico Connection / Jaime Veneracion -- The Popol Wuj / Carlos Lopez -- Postcoloniality and Alternative Histories / Julia Suárez Krabbe -- Fausto Reinaga / Marcia Stephenson -- The Role of Literature in Filipino Resistance / Maria Luisa T. Reyes -- Spain, Modernity, and Colonialism / John Beverley -- Spanish Colonialism in a World Perspective / Julia Suárez Krabbe -- The Túpac Amaru Rebellion / John Beverley.
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