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CALL FOR PAPERS
AN INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM
Pen-insularities: writing east and west in Portuguese
University of Bristol, 15-16 April 2011
It is a unique feature of the lusophone world that no
Portuguese-speaking country borders on another. The lusophone world is
therefore a pattern of islands divided from each other by oceans –
whether maritime, territorial, or linguistic ones. Nowhere is this
more the case than in the territories, countries, and regions of the
Indian Ocean and South China Sea, where the Portuguese left their
language and culture, an area bounded by Mozambique in the West and
Macau in the East, and taking in Goa, Sri Lanka, Malacca, and East
Timor, - islands, peninsulas, old trading emporia, local communities
whose identities have somehow been shaped by Portuguese. Within the
broad field of postcolonial studies, and within what might be termed
the discrete discipline of lusophone postcolonialism, the colloquium
will look at the history, literature and culture of these former
territories of Portugal in order to determine to what extent their
association with Portuguese feeds into any notion of postcolonial
identity, and to draw, where appropriate, comparisons and contrasts
with other parts of the world, notably the lusophone Atlantic.
We welcome proposals for papers in English or in Portuguese or panels
incorporating any of the following topics and themes:
* Literature from Goa, Macau and East Timor in Portuguese or other languages.
* The History and Literature of Mozambique in the context of the
country's links with societies and cultures across the Indian Ocean.
* Literature or other cultural manifestations from Malacca, Sri Lanka,
or other parts of South East Asia, which speak of an association with
Portuguese.
* The social and cultural histories of the Portuguese in the Indian
Ocean and South China Sea.
* Creolization, creole languages, creole cultures.
* Portuguese Orientalism.
* Comparative literary or historical themes relating to the above.
Please send a title and short abstract to either
d.r.brooks...@bris.ac.uk, or gustavo.infa...@bris.ac.uk by 20
September 2010.
