I have downloaded your thesis. After reading I will come in contact with you again. All the best in your further work in the area. William Robert Da Silva
On Fri, Apr 12, 2024 at 4:33 PM smita sail <smitams...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Dear Gomes, > > Happy to hear from you. I loved reading your novel The Sting of Peppercorns. > The realistic portrayal of the breakdown of elite Goan Catholic families > post-liberation resonated with my research topic and I have made multiple > references to your book in my thesis. Here is a short excerpt from my thesis > chapter on Goan sensibility around Goa's liberation: > > "The novels bring to the fore the divided political loyalties within the > families which was common during the pre-liberation period (Antao, 2010). > These characters and the villagers in The Sixth Night are all reminiscent of > Donna Georgina, the landlady of Lotulim, whom William Dalrymple describes in > one of his essays on Goa. Donna Georgina Figueiredo, like many of her > generation caught in the time wrap, refuses to accept the narrative of Goa’s > liberation: “When Indians came to Goa in 1961 it was 100 percent an invasion. > From what were they supposed to be liberating us? Not the Portuguese, because > the Portuguese never oppressed us (2006, 8).” Like Donna Georgina, the > educated characters in the novels lament the invasion of Goa, refuse to > accept Goa as India and Goan’s as Indians, deepening the Identity crisis. > Donna Georgina Figueiredo’s statement echoes with Dona Isabella for whom > India was a “distant land with strange men in white Nehru caps, and the > non-violent Gandhijis- the satyagrahis, who came across the frontier to claim > her beloved Portuguese Goa.” (Gomes 2010, 34). Likewise, the character of > Paulo in Sting of Peppercorn is moulded in the cast of Salazar’s ideologies > and accepts the status of Goa as an integral part of Portugal since it’s not > a colony like India when it was under the British (Gomes 2010, 34). The > villagers in The Sixth Night wonder why they are being liberated or from > what. They never felt they were slaves of the Portuguese. ‘Jai Hind’ failed > to resonate with these villagers who went about their normal business > unmindful of the developments (207). The author voices the apprehensions of > Catholic Goans about the merger with India. They fear that “[t]heir Christian > religion and Portuguese names would definitely be a hindrance and a liability > in a Hindu India, as they would be discriminated against as a minority > anyway. " > > PFA my thesis for your perusal. > > On Mon, Apr 8, 2024 at 10:54 PM Tony Gomes <tong....@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Dear Ms. Sail, >> >> Thank you very much for including my novel “The Sting of Peppercorns” in >> your thesis on Select Goan Novels. I much enjoyed your read and perspective >> on select Goan novels. However, I did not complete reading the entire >> thesis; moreover, I am unable to reopen the link. Can you send the link >> again or a PDF copy if you have one. >> >> All best, >> Antonio (Tony) Gomes >> Professor of Medicine, >> The Mount Sinai Medical Center, NY. >> >> On Apr 5, 2024, at 1:10 AM, smita sail <smitams...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Dear all, >> I wish to share my published work in the area of Goan History and its >> depiction in Goan Literature. I would love to hear your views. I am also >> open to opportunities for collaborative research in this or related areas. >> Here is the link to my thesis titled "Religious Zeitgeist of Portuguese Goa: >> Postcolonial Reading of Select Goan Novels": >> https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/531606. >> >> Taylor Francis has also published my paper on "The Role of Purity and >> Pollution Rituals in Religious Conversions of Goa during Portuguese >> Colonization: A Probe through Select Goan Novels." Here is the link: >> https://www.tandfonline.com/share/6KMTZVYBFVAJATVWB4SI?target=10.1080/1369801X.2022.2157308. >> PFA the PDF. >> >> Regards >> Smita Sail >> Assistant Professor >> Dept of English >> Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru >> Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham >> Scopus ID: AU/ID 58023467000 >> Orchid ID: 0000-0002-6059-6411 >> Mobile: 8904632400 >> https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Smita-Sail >> https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2022.2157308 >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Goa-Research-Net" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to goa-research-net+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goa-research-net/216c661b-2016-4725-9eb3-460a260108den%40googlegroups.com. >> <Religious Conversions of Goa TAYLOR Francis journal.pdf> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Goa-Research-Net" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to goa-research-net+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goa-research-net/26032EF3-9B6A-4C53-A2D0-78A6E513DB45%40gmail.com. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Goa-Research-Net" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to goa-research-net+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goa-research-net/CA%2BQ-s3s7v%2BU4zeHRx0bAAgtfjbU7wLiG%2BDSpcjQERM9nKsh0rA%40mail.gmail.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Goa-Research-Net" group. 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