Here goes an abstract in English of a text in Portuguese to appear in the forthcoming issue of the Journal «Babilónia» of the Department of Culture, Languages and Translations, of the Lusophone University of Humanities and Technologies, Lisbon. The past issues of the Journal may be read on-line at
http://babilonia.ulusofona.pt/ ---------------------------------------------- Imperial Logic and Contemporary Processes Analysing a few colonial memoirs recently published in Goa and in Portugal Teotónio R. de Souza Analysis of the Portuguese colonial-imperial logic. The analysis is based on nine recently published memoirs. They include five Goan authors and four Portuguese authors. This analysis comes obviously too late for any intervention in those imperial processes. The memoirs always look back and are exercises which often display reduced capacity of taking into account the full logic that accompanied those processes. However, I believe that they can still serve to gauge the long term implications of those processes. Transitions and continuity need to be taken into account to better assess the processes that interest us here. They cannot be validly analysed only in the time-space context in which they took place, or in isolation from their background and subsequent effects. It is in this perspective that I choose to analyse the «contemporary processes» and I consider it still useful to analyse the memoirs of some participants in those processes. I wish however to leave a caveat: We need also to watch out for the traps that these memoirs can embody to distract us from the truth. _____________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. Goanet mailing list (Goanet@goanet.org) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: %(user_optionsurl)s This email sent to %(user_address)s