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Portuguese Orientalism - The Interplay of Power, Representation and Dialogue in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Hardcover)
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Portuguese Orientalism - The Interplay of Power, Representation and Dialogue in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Hardcover)
Series: The Portuguese-Speaking World
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Research on Portuguese orientalism has been mostly centred on the
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and has focused on missionary
work and Catholic orientalism. In contrast, reflection on the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries is scarce and has relied on
individual case studies, notwithstanding the TECOP (Texts and
Contexts of Portuguese Orientalism: The International Congresses of
Orientalists, 1873-1973) research project. This edited collection
is the result of an international forum
(www.tecop.letras.ulisboa.pt) hosted by the Centre for Comparative
Studies, the University of Lisbon. The editorial aim is to counter
the scant attention paid to Portuguese orientalist scholarship,
which has been peripheralized within the comparative history of
western imperialisms at large and within national orientalisms in
particular. Incorporating Portugal into a broader European colonial
discourse about the East, and discussing the responses to
Portuguese colonial legacies, gives visibility to the agency of the
multiple actors and networks implicated in the Portuguese modern
connection to the East. Essays cover former Portuguese India (Goa),
Macau, Timor and Japan, as well as East Africa, Egypt, and even
Angola as an expansive site of the Portuguese orientalist rhetoric.
The chapters by necessity revisit Edward Saids Orientalism (1978),
making use of its analytical framework. They foster an
understanding of Portuguese orientalism as an epistemological
system supported by an elite either intellectual, scientific or
literary that assumed different material manifestations in the
shape of colonial policies; scientific expeditions; exhibitions;
press and literary publications; radio broadcasts; and the
institutionalization itself of orientalist knowledge. This is the
first collection in the English language overtly expressing an
intention to examine this epistemological contribution.
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