Gender, Empire, and Postcolony Luso-Afro-Brazilian Intersections

by Owen, Hilary; Klobucka, Anna M.

• ISBN13: 9781137343413
• ISBN10: 1137343419
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2014-09-04
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Gender, Empire, and Postcolony: Luso-Afro-Brazilian Intersections is a collection of essays on gender in Portuguese colonialism and Lusophone postcolonialism. The contributors engage systematically with postcolonial and gender theory as they examine the diverse universe of cultural production that has directed itself to Lusophone colonial and postcolonial experience and legacy, including literature, cinema, and other visual arts. The volume builds on existing critiques of Lusotropicalism while affording important new space for Lusophone dialogue with mainstream postcolonial theory. Beyond its core audience of Luso-Afro-Brazilian studies specialists, Gender, Empire, and Postcolony will interest scholars and students of colonial history and postcolonial theory; African and Latin American studies; and film studies and art history.

Author Biography

Hilary Owen is Professor of Portuguese and Luso-African Studies at the University of Manchester, UK. She is the author or editor of several books, including Mother Africa, Father Marx: Women's Writing of Mozambique, 1948-2002, and (with Phillip Rothwell) Sexual/Textual Empires: Gender and Marginality in Lusophone African Literature.
Anna M. Klobucka is Professor of Portuguese and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA. She is the author or editor of several books, including The Portuguese Nun: Formation of a National Myth (2000) and (with Mark Sabine) Embodying Pessoa: Corporeality, Gender, Sexuality (2007).

Table of Contents

Introduction: Anna M. Klobucka and Hilary Owen
PART I: LUSOTROPICALIST AFFECT AND ANTI-IMPERIAL ETHICS
1. Pessoa's Works on the Self: Toward an Anti-Imperial Askesis; Leela Gandhi,
2. Lusotropicalist Entanglements: Colonial Racisms in the Postcolonial Metropolis; Ana Paula Ferreira
3. Love Is All You Need: Lusophone Affective Communities after Freyre; Anna M. Klobucka
PART II: EMPIRE OF THE LENSES: CINEMA AND THE POST/COLONIAL GAZE
4. Filming Women in the Colonies: Gender Roles in New State Cinema about the Empire; Patrícia Vieira
5. Colonial Masculinities under a Woman's Gaze in Margarida in Margarida Cardoso's A Costa dos Murmúrios; Mark Sabine
6. Making War on the Isle of Love: Screening Camões in Manoel de Oliveira's Non, ou a Vã Glória de Mandar; Hilary Owen
PART III: POSTCOLONIALITY AND GENDER POLITICS IN VISUAL ARTS
7. Not Your Mother's Milk: Imagining the Wet Nurse in Brazil; Kimberly Cleveland
8. Salazar's Boots: Women, Power and Authority in the Work of Paula Rego; Memory Holloway
9. A Turma do Pererê: Visualizations of Gender in a Brazilian Children's Comic; Elise Dietrich
PART IV: HEROES, ANTI-HEROES, AND THE MYTH OF POWER
10. Karingana Wa Karingana: Representations of the Heroic Female in Mozambique; Maria Tavares
11. Gender, Species and Coloniality in Maria Velho da Costa; Maria Irene Ramalho
12. Restelo Redux: Heroic Masculinity and the Return of the Repressed Empire in As Naus; Steven Gonzagowski