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Global Portuguese
Literary, Historical, Sociolinguistic and Anthropological Approaches
Series: - European Expansion and Indigenous Response, Volume: 44
Global Portuguese results from conferences convened at the University of London School of Advanced Study to highlight legacies of Portuguese empire in postcolonial societies. Its chapters trace Portuguese legacies from the early modern to contemporary period through history, anthropology, language, literature, linguistics, and cuisine. There are sections devoted to sociolinguistic and anthropological method, and studies on Thailand, Sri Lanka, Goa, Macau, Brazil, Angola, Indonesia, São Tomé, and Zambesia.
Contributors are: Matthias Rõhrig Assunção, Dorothée Boulanger, Silvia Figueiredo Brandão, David Brookshaw, Paul Melo e Castro, Augusto Soares da Silva, Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya, Stefan Halikowski Smith, Annabel Jackson, Ivana Stolze Lima, Selina Patel Nascimento, Malyn Newitt, Gerhard Seibert, Andrzej Stuart-Thompson, Raan-Hann Tan, and Silvia Rodrigues Vieira.
Contributors are: Matthias Rõhrig Assunção, Dorothée Boulanger, Silvia Figueiredo Brandão, David Brookshaw, Paul Melo e Castro, Augusto Soares da Silva, Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya, Stefan Halikowski Smith, Annabel Jackson, Ivana Stolze Lima, Selina Patel Nascimento, Malyn Newitt, Gerhard Seibert, Andrzej Stuart-Thompson, Raan-Hann Tan, and Silvia Rodrigues Vieira.
Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya, Ph.D. (2004), University of Westminster, is Senior Research Fellow at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, and Senior Associate at Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge. She is the recipient of the Rama Watamull Award for Collaborative Lectures at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Shihan served as Rapporteur for the UNESCO Slave Route Project, a member of its International Scientific Committee, and is currently a recognised UN Expert Consultant for the UN OHCHR.
Stefan Halikowski Smith, Ph.D. (2001), European University Institute, is Associate Professor at the Department of Modern Languages & History, Swansea University. He has lectured for the Vasco da Gama Chair in the History of Portuguese Expansion at Brown University, and at Uniwersytet Warszawsk. He is an affiliated member of the TRANSPACIFIC Research Team, Leuven University, and a board member of CHAM, Universidade Nova de Lisbon.
Stefan Halikowski Smith, Ph.D. (2001), European University Institute, is Associate Professor at the Department of Modern Languages & History, Swansea University. He has lectured for the Vasco da Gama Chair in the History of Portuguese Expansion at Brown University, and at Uniwersytet Warszawsk. He is an affiliated member of the TRANSPACIFIC Research Team, Leuven University, and a board member of CHAM, Universidade Nova de Lisbon.
General Series Editor’s Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
List of Figures
List of Tables
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Stefan HalikowskiSmith
1 Portuguese in the World and Its Standardisation: between the Reality of a Pluricentric Language and the Desire for an International Language
Augusto SoaresdaSilva
2 The Portuguese of Brazil IS Multiple: A Sociolinguistic Approach
Silvia FigueiredoBrandão and Silvia Rodrigues Vieira
3 National Language and African Voices in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
Ivana StolzeLima
4 Multilingualism and the Sri Lanka Portuguese Dialect of an Afro-Diasporic Community
Shihan deSilvaJayasuriya
5 The Portuguese Village in Jakarta: Kinship, Residence and Naming
Raan-Hann Tan
6 Portuguese Culinary Legacy in Asia: An Exploration of Macanese Cuisine
Annabel Jackson
7 São Tomé’s Popular Theatre Tchiloli: The Persistence of Unproven Claims of Its Sixteenth-Century Introduction
Gerhard Seibert
8 Creolization and Diaspora in the Portuguese Indies: The Social World of Ayutthaya, 1640–1720
Stefan HalikowskiSmith
9 “Upholding the Constitution and the Saintly Catholic Religion, Loving the Fatherland and the Emperor”
Popular Liberalism in the Balaiada rebellion in the Brazilian province of Maranhão
Matthias RöhrigAssunção
10 Seventeenth Century ‘Culture Wars’: António Gomes’ SJ Description of the East African Mission
Malyn Newitt
11 Concubines, Companions, and Convicts: Women in Exile in the Portuguese Empire, 1500–1800
Selina PatelNascimento
12 Palimpsests of Portugueseness: Lusophone Residues in Postcolonial Literature in English
David Brookshaw
13 Revolutionary Languages in Angolan Boyhood Narratives: Literary Filiations from Luandino Vieira to Ondjaki
Dorothée Boulanger and Andrzej Stuart-Thompson
14 From Goa in Portuguese to the Anglophone World: The Case of ‘The Rats’ by Epitácio Pais’ as World Literature’
Paul Castro
15 Epilogue
Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya
Index
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
List of Figures
List of Tables
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Stefan HalikowskiSmith
Part 1 Approaches to Historical Sociolinguistics
1 Portuguese in the World and Its Standardisation: between the Reality of a Pluricentric Language and the Desire for an International Language
Augusto SoaresdaSilva
2 The Portuguese of Brazil IS Multiple: A Sociolinguistic Approach
Silvia FigueiredoBrandão and Silvia Rodrigues Vieira
3 National Language and African Voices in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
Ivana StolzeLima
4 Multilingualism and the Sri Lanka Portuguese Dialect of an Afro-Diasporic Community
Shihan deSilvaJayasuriya
Part2 Approaches to Social Anthropology
5 The Portuguese Village in Jakarta: Kinship, Residence and Naming
Raan-Hann Tan
6 Portuguese Culinary Legacy in Asia: An Exploration of Macanese Cuisine
Annabel Jackson
7 São Tomé’s Popular Theatre Tchiloli: The Persistence of Unproven Claims of Its Sixteenth-Century Introduction
Gerhard Seibert
Part3 Approaches to History
8 Creolization and Diaspora in the Portuguese Indies: The Social World of Ayutthaya, 1640–1720
Stefan HalikowskiSmith
9 “Upholding the Constitution and the Saintly Catholic Religion, Loving the Fatherland and the Emperor”
Popular Liberalism in the Balaiada rebellion in the Brazilian province of Maranhão
Matthias RöhrigAssunção
10 Seventeenth Century ‘Culture Wars’: António Gomes’ SJ Description of the East African Mission
Malyn Newitt
11 Concubines, Companions, and Convicts: Women in Exile in the Portuguese Empire, 1500–1800
Selina PatelNascimento
Part4 Approaches to Literature
12 Palimpsests of Portugueseness: Lusophone Residues in Postcolonial Literature in English
David Brookshaw
13 Revolutionary Languages in Angolan Boyhood Narratives: Literary Filiations from Luandino Vieira to Ondjaki
Dorothée Boulanger and Andrzej Stuart-Thompson
14 From Goa in Portuguese to the Anglophone World: The Case of ‘The Rats’ by Epitácio Pais’ as World Literature’
Paul Castro
15 Epilogue
Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya
Index
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