- Title Information
- Title
- ÓRFÃOS DO IMPÉRIO COLONIAL: Reflexo de Perdas e Legados na Literatura Portuguesa Recente
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Martinho Ferreira, Patrícia
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- creator
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Simas-Almeida, Leonor
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- Advisor
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Almeida, Onésimo
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- Reader
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Ferreira, Roquinaldo
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- Reader
- Name:
Corporate
- Name Part
- Brown University. Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
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Text
- sponsor
- Origin Information
- Copyright Date
- 2018
- Physical Description
- Extent
- 8, 320 p.
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- born digital
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thesis
- Thesis (Ph. D.)--Brown University, 2018
- Genre (aat)
- theses
- Abstract
- This dissertation analyzes the representation of the orphan in the contemporary Portuguese literature that constitutes a critical revisiting of the end of Portuguese colonialism in Africa and the consequences of decolonization as they relate to a renegotiation of identity. The association between the orphan and the end of the colonial empire is pertinent when considering that this figure represents a rupture with what Laura Peters calls “notions of being, particularly home, nation, discourse and writing” (Orphan Texts, 28).
The dissertation begins with a theoretical framework that outlines the history of the concept of the orphan. The next four chapters focus on the trope of orphanhood in the context of the dissolution of colonial society and of the exodus of the colonial settlers and their descendants to the ex-metropole. Indeed, since the orphan predicates a destabilization of the traditional family structure, it answers an Estado Novo rhetoric that projected onto the family microcosm an alleged harmony among the various parts of the Portuguese Empire. The orphan functions, too, as a metaphor for the anxieties arising from the return journey. On the one hand, it highlights the colonial settlers’ deterritorialization process, demonstrating the impossibility of this group’s escape from a condition of metaphoric orphanhood, associated with the loss of a promised “paradise”. On the other hand, orphanhood expresses the condition of rootlessness and cultural disorientation of the new generation of the colonial settlers’ descendants, acknowledging the difficulty of reconciliation with the past. The alienation from a European space is especially exacerbated in the experience of the descendants of mixed race.
The last chapter examines manifestations of orphanhood in novels in which the temporal arc takes place after the return, focusing on postcolonial dynamics. It is apparent that Portuguese postcolonialism is marked by an oscillation between, on the one side, the worldview inherited from colonial structures that systematically silenced minority groups and, on the other, a growing demand for other spaces that dignify the experience of historically subalternized groups. The orphan allows us to trace disquieting paths revealing anti-imperial tensions and, in this way, it can be seen as a figure of power.
- Subject
- Topic
- Trauma
- Subject (fast)
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- Postcolonialism
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- Migration
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- Empire
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- cultural identity
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- Colonialism
- Subject (fast)
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- Topic
- Portugal
- Subject (fast)
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- Africa, Portuguese-speaking
- Subject (fast)
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- Topic
- Orphans
- Subject (fast)
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- Topic
- Portuguese literature
- Subject (fast)
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- Topic
- Nostalgia
- Subject (fast)
(authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/00889115")
- Topic
- Decolonization
- Subject (fast)
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- Topic
- Decolonization in literature
- Subject
- Topic
- orphanhood
- Subject
- Topic
- Estado Novo
- Subject (fast)
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- Topic
- Portuguese-speaking countries
- Language
- Language Term (ISO639-2B)
- Portuguese
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- RPB
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- 20180618
- Identifier:
DOI
- 10.26300/dsp4-ex96
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- dissertations