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This edited volume is a collection of twelve interdisciplinary
essays from various Brazilian literary scholars, historians, and
anthropologists analyzing the work of 19th- and 20th-century
Afro-Brazilian writer Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto. This is the
first collection to present a cohesive analysis of this writer's
work in English. It is an intellectually diverse collection of
essays that recover Barreto's oeuvre and consider a wide range of
topics, including Barreto's treatment of race, family, class,
social and gender politics of postabolition Brazil, neocolonialism,
the disjuncture between urban and suburban spaces, and national
identity politics.
This book brings forth a new contribution to the study of
imperialism and colonial discourse by theorizing the emergence and
function of individual identity as product and producer of imperial
power. While recent decades of theoretical reflections on
imperialism have yielded important understandings of how the West
has repeatedly reconsolidated its power, this book seeks to grasp
the complex role of subjectivity in reformulating the terms of
imperial domination from early modern European expansion to late
capitalism. This entails approaching Empire as a constantly
shifting system of differences and meanings as well as an
ontological project, a mode of historical writing, and economy of
desire that repeatedly envelops the subject into the realm of
western power. The analysis of an array of literary texts and
cultural artifacts is undertaken by means of a theoretically
eclectic approach - drawing on psychoanalysis, post-structuralism,
postcolonial theory, and Marxism - with the aim of forwarding
current knowledge of Empire while also contributing to different
branches of critical theory. In exploring the formation of imperial
subjectivity in different historical moments, Silva raises new
questions related to the signification of otherness in European
expansion and colonial settlement, slavery and eugenics in
post-independence Americas, and late capitalist circulation of
bodies and commodities. The volume also covers a broad range of
geo-cultural spaces in order to locate western power in time and
space. This book's diversity in terms of approach, historical
scope, and cultural contexts makes it a useful tool for research
and teaching among students and scholars of disciplines including
Postcolonial Studies, Colonial History, Literature, and
Globalization.
This book brings forth a new contribution to the study of
imperialism and colonial discourse by theorizing the emergence and
function of individual identity as product and producer of imperial
power. While recent decades of theoretical reflections on
imperialism have yielded important understandings of how the West
has repeatedly reconsolidated its power, this book seeks to grasp
the complex role of subjectivity in reformulating the terms of
imperial domination from early modern European expansion to late
capitalism. This entails approaching Empire as a constantly
shifting system of differences and meanings as well as an
ontological project, a mode of historical writing, and economy of
desire that repeatedly envelops the subject into the realm of
western power. The analysis of an array of literary texts and
cultural artifacts is undertaken by means of a theoretically
eclectic approach - drawing on psychoanalysis, post-structuralism,
postcolonial theory, and Marxism - with the aim of forwarding
current knowledge of Empire while also contributing to different
branches of critical theory. In exploring the formation of imperial
subjectivity in different historical moments, Silva raises new
questions related to the signification of otherness in European
expansion and colonial settlement, slavery and eugenics in
post-independence Americas, and late capitalist circulation of
bodies and commodities. The volume also covers a broad range of
geo-cultural spaces in order to locate western power in time and
space. This book's diversity in terms of approach, historical
scope, and cultural contexts makes it a useful tool for research
and teaching among students and scholars of disciplines including
Postcolonial Studies, Colonial History, Literature, and
Globalization.
The first book-length edited collection on Machado de Assis, this
volume offers essays on Machado de Assis' work that offer new
critical perspectives not only Brazilian literature and history,
but also to social, cultural, and political phenomena that continue
to have global repercussions.
This book examines today’s massive migrations between Global
South and Global North in light of Spain and Portugal’s
complicated colonial legacies. It offers unique material on
Spanish-speaking and Lusophone Africa in conjunction to
transatlantic and transpacific perspectives encompassing the
Americas, Asia, and the Caribbean. For the first time, these are
brought together to explore how movement within and beyond these
former metropoles came to define the Iberian Peninsula. The
collection is composed of papers that study human mobility in
Spanish-speaking or Lusophone contexts from a myriad of approaches.
The project thus sheds critical light on migratory movement within
the Luso-Hispanic world, and also beyond its traditional
geo-linguistic parameters, through an eclectic and
inter-disciplinary collection of essays, traversing anthropology,
literary studies, theater, and popular culture. Beyond focusing
solely on the geo-political limits of Peninsular space, several
essays interrogate the legacies of Iberian colonial projects in a
global perspective, and how the discursive underpinnings of these
impact the politics of migration in the broader Luso-Hispanic
world.
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool
University Press website and the OAPEN library as part of the
Opening the Future project with COPIM. Empire Found: Racial
Identities and Coloniality in Twenty-First Century Portuguese
Popular Cultures examines how the discourses and narratives of
Portuguese imperial exceptionalism and Portuguese racial identity,
developed during the last centuries of Portuguese settler
colonialism continue to inform an array of cultural production and
consumption in the four decades since decolonization. By examining
a range of contemporary popular cultural production (literature,
football, musical production, and celebrity culture) in critical
conversation with intellectual production of the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries, Empire Found examines how narratives of
Portuguese racial hybridity and indeterminacy operate alongside
ongoing structures of coloniality and white supremacy in the realms
of cultural production. I argue that these implied or overt
historical dialogues carried out through cultural production are
integral to the very reproduction of the Portuguese nation-state
apparatus, as well as its racial structures and claims to whiteness
in the wake of decolonization and marginal integration into the
European Union.
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