Full Description
Analyzing a wide body of cultural texts, including literature, film, and other visual arts, Gender, Empire, and Postcolony: Luso-Afro-Brazilian Intersections is a diverse collection of essays on gender in Portuguese colonialism and Lusophone postcolonialism.
Contents
Introduction: Anna M. Klobucka and Hilary Owen PART I: LUSOTROPICALIST AFFECT AND ANTI-IMPERIAL ETHICS 1. Pessoa's Works on the Self: Toward an Anti-Imperial Askesis; Leela Gandhi, 2. Lusotropicalist Entanglements: Colonial Racisms in the Postcolonial Metropolis; Ana Paula Ferreira 3. Love Is All You Need: Lusophone Affective Communities after Freyre; Anna M. Klobucka PART II: EMPIRE OF THE LENSES: CINEMA AND THE POST/COLONIAL GAZE 4. Filming Women in the Colonies: Gender Roles in New State Cinema about the Empire; Patrícia Vieira 5. Colonial Masculinities under a Woman's Gaze in Margarida in Margarida Cardoso's A Costa dos Murmúrios ; Mark Sabine 6. Making War on the Isle of Love: Screening Camões in Manoel de Oliveira's Non, ou a Vã Glória de Mandar ; Hilary Owen PART III: POSTCOLONIALITY AND GENDER POLITICS IN VISUAL ARTS 7. Not Your Mother's Milk: Imagining the Wet Nurse in Brazil; Kimberly Cleveland 8. Salazar's Boots: Women, Power and Authority in the Work of Paula Rego; Memory Holloway 9. A Turma do Pererê : Visualizations of Gender in a Brazilian Children's Comic; Elise Dietrich PART IV: HEROES, ANTI-HEROES, AND THE MYTH OF POWER 10. Karingana Wa Karingana : Representations of the Heroic Female in Mozambique; Maria Tavares 11. Gender, Species and Coloniality in Maria Velho da Costa; Maria Irene Ramalho 12. Restelo Redux: Heroic Masculinity and the Return of the Repressed Empire in As Naus ; Steven Gonzagowski
