Passages to Our Selves

This article attempts to re-examine the question of contemporary Luso-Asian writing from a perspective that avoids indulging in any lingering traces of colonial nostalgia. By counterposing divergent narratives from twentieth-century Goan literature and history within a more extensive set of Lusophone paradigms for organizing and understanding the world that may come to be called lusocosmologies-above all, by interweaving other literary texts by Antonio Tabucchi and Pundalik Naik-this approach to Lusophone Asian futurity reaffirms the necessity of a multilingual transcultural project that interrogates current conceptions of identity and alterity, and provides for the continual possibility for translation between them

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