Luso-Orientalism(s)-On Imagined Projections And Ruins

This book aims to explore the multiple ways in which Portuguese colonialism in former Portuguese Asia has been imagined. It focuses primarily on how Estado Novo (19331974), the longest-running European dictatorship, imagined these territories and peoples. Images played a pivotal role in the exercise of colonial power, propagating established ideas and portraying a colonial reality entirely from a Western perspective. Scarce existing studies rarely acknowledge the need to differentiate between the specificities glossed over by Luso-tropicalist (and Luso-orientalists) discourse. Despite their propagandistic nature and their impact on the socio-cultural memories and narrative identities of the former Portuguese territories in Asia, visual representations of colonialism have largely remained unquestioned. By analysing the impact of such representations in cinema, photography and literature, among other media, the book aims to distinguish between the circumstances of Portuguese India, Macau and Timor while also considering anti-(post)colonial ruptures and persistences.

A pioneering work in Portuguese studies, addressing an under-researched aspect of colonial studies and visual culture Includes contributions from authors situated in former colonies, foregrounding epistemologies of the Global South Argues that visual representations of 'Portuguese Asia' are still deeply informed by Orientalism and Luso-Tropicalism

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Maria do Carmo Piçarra is vice-coordinator of ICNOVA, an assistant professor at UAL, and a film curator. Her academic interests include (post)colonial filmic representations, film propaganda and censorship, women in decolonisation and militant uses of the image. Her book Easterly Wind: Luso-Orientalism(s) in the Dictatorship's Films is scheduled for publication in 2025.

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This is a pioneering, ground-breaking yet accessible study which will interest established scholars and advanced students, whether they focus on Lusophone Studies, Visual Studies, or Asian Studies. The volume's consistent historical focus and applied analysis of a vast corpus of materials usually ignored makes a strong contribution to all three areas as well as to postcolonial studies.

--Prof Paulo de Medeiros, University of Warwick, UK

This book aims to explore the multiple ways in which Portuguese colonialism in former Portuguese Asia has been imagined. It focuses primarily on how Estado Novo (19331974), the longest-running European dictatorship, imagined these territories and peoples. Images played a pivotal role in the exercise of colonial power, propagating established ideas and portraying a colonial reality entirely from a Western perspective. Scarce existing studies rarely acknowledge the need to differentiate between the specificities glossed over by Luso-tropicalist (and Luso-orientalists) discourse. Despite their propagandistic nature and their impact on the socio-cultural memories and narrative identities of the former Portuguese territories in Asia, visual representations of colonialism have largely remained unquestioned. By analysing the impact of such representations in cinema, photography and literature, among other media, the book aims to distinguish between the circumstances of Portuguese India, Macau and Timor while also considering anti-(post)colonial ruptures and persistences.

Maria do Carmo Piçarra is vice-coordinator of ICNOVA, an assistant professor at UAL, and a film curator. Her academic interests include (post)colonial filmic representations, film propaganda and censorship, women in decolonisation and militant uses of the image. Her book Easterly Wind: Luso-Orientalism(s) in the Dictatorship's Films is scheduled for publication in 2025.

Inhalt

Part I: Contributions to a Genealogical Analysis of Luso-Orientalist Representations.- Chapter 1: Luso-orientalist Visions of Portuguese Asia: An Imaginary Shrouded in Ruins.- Chapter 2: Goa in Black and White: Souza & Paul's Photographs in Catalogues, Albums, Exhibitions and Archives, In and Out of India.- Chapter 3: Colonial Representations of Macau and the Macanese: Circulation, Knowledge, Identities and Challenges for the Future.- Chapter 4: Photographic Representations of Timor at the Turn of the 19 th Century.- Chapter 5: Macau in the Movies: Portugal in the far east or gambling hell?.- Chapter 6: The India of Augusto Cabrita.- Part II: Anti-(Post)Colonial Ruptures and Persistences.- Chapter 7: Re-envisioning a Portuguese Colony: Indonesian Photographic Representations of East Timor.- Chapter 8: Liberating Memories of India and Goa: The Politics of Edila Gaitonde's Anticolonial Life Writing.- Chapter 9: Índia (1973-1975) de António Faria. Luso-orientalism and the Persistence of Empire in Portuguese Society.- Chapter 10: Reappropriating the Colonial Neutral Gaze: Macau's Filmic Representation.- Chapter 11: All Cultures, all Arts, all Styles: Paulo Rocha's A Ilha dos Amores and its Singularity.- Chapter 12: Representing the Voyage of Voyages: the Orient and the Imaginary of the Discoveries in Contemporary Portuguese Travel Writing.- Chapter 13: R. V. Pandit and Yao Feng: Two Asian Poets of the Image.- Chapter 14: Acts of Random Archiving.