País de Sonho e Encantamento
Dis)Enchantment in Postcolonial Imaginings of the Contemporary (Lusophone) World
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3819935 |
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| Authors | Anthony Soares (0000-0003-0503-2856, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Issue | 4, No 1 |
| Pages | 17-27 |
| Publication date | 2015-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cadernos de arte e antropologia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2238-0361 • E-ISSN: 2238-0361 |
| Publisher | OpenEdition (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4000/cadernosaa.834 |
| OpenAlex | W1970177021 |
| Language | PT |
| References cited | 5 |
This paper questions the extent to which current critical engagements with postcolonial realities may exhibit an exoticising tendency they simultaneously decry as colonialism's orientalist reflex. Contemporary instances of the exoticization of the "other", however, are not necessarily the result of a practice of cultural translation that becomes 'the superimposition of a dominant way of seeing, speaking and thinking onto marginalised peoples and the cultural artefacts they produce' (Huggan, A Postcolonial Exotic 24). Instead, it is proposed they result from a reaction to a localized political disenchantment that leads to an imagining of a postcolonial distanced "other" portrayed as the possibility of resistance to the hegemonic forces bemoaned by the postcolonial critic. Is it legitimate, therefore, to ask whether the exoticizing essence of the description of Portuguese Timor in the 1930s by the deportado Paulo Braga as 'Um país onde é belo e doce viver' survives as an undercurrent in analyses of postcolonial Timor-Leste
Aesthetics · Art · Colonialism · Disenchantment · Hegemony · Literature · Orientalism · Political science · Politics · Portuguese · Postcolonialism (international relations · Sociology · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · Gender Studies · Law · Literature, Culture, and Criticism · Peacebuilding and International Security · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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