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The Colonial Wars in Contemporary Portuguese Fiction by Isabel Moutinho is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Colonial Wars in Contemporary Portuguese Fiction about?

The Portuguese fiction that awakened public debate on imperialismThe colonial wars in Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau in the 1960s and 1970s were Portugal's Vietnam. The novels discussed in this study, written by António Lobo Antunes, Lídia Jorge and Manuel Alegre among others, aroused passionate responses from the reading public and initiated a national debate, otherwise lacking in the contemporary press, with their systematic deconstruction of the rhetoric of patriotism and colonialism of António Salazar's regime. The author's approach is of necessity grounded in postcolonial thought, as these works represent the awakening of a post-imperial conscience in Portuguese literature and society. ISABEL MOUTINHO is a Lecturer in Spanish and Portuguese at La Trobe University, Australia.

Who reads The Colonial Wars in Contemporary Portuguese Fiction?

Author

Isabel Moutinho

Publisher

Boydell and Brewer Limited

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9781282621213

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Fiction, Literary Fiction