Silenced voices: colonial and anti-colonial literature in Portuguese literary history

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Title:	Silenced voices: colonial and anti-colonial literature in Portuguese literary history
Author:	Larsen, Ingemai
Year:	2006
Periodical:	Lusotopie
Volume:	13
Issue:	2
Pages:	59-69
Language:	English
Geographic terms:	Angola Mozambique Portugal
Subjects:	literary history literature colonialism anticolonialism Portuguese language
About person:	José Rodrigues Júnior (1902-1990)
External link:	https://doi.org/10.1163/17683084-01302004
Abstract:	Situated on the crossroads of Portuguese postcolonial studies and Portuguese literary history, this article is concerned with methodological and other problems related to the continuing use of the 'teleological national model' which fails to address the question of the relationship between language, nationality and culture. Among the main arguments are the specific problems arising from the inconsistent treatment of a number of authors normally referred to as representing colonial and anticolonial literature, such as the writers Luandino Vieira and Castro Soromenho (born respectively in Angola and Mozambique as sons of Portuguese emigrants). Another point is to demonstrate the potential value of colonial literature for the contemporary study of Portuguese colonialism as well as for literary historians. This is done by providing a short example of the work of Rodrigues Júnior, an extremely productive author of colonial literature from Mozambique who is today hardly remembered. Notes, ref., sum. in English, Portuguese and French. [Journal abstract]