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This book aims to explore the multiple ways in which Portuguese colonialism in former “Portuguese Asia” has been imagined.  It focuses primarily on how Estado Novo (1933–1974), the longest-running European dictatorship, “imagined” these territories and peoples. Images played a pivotal role in the exercise of colonial power, propagating established ideas and portraying a colonial reality entirely from a Western perspective. Scarce existing studies rarely acknowledge the need to differentiate between the specificities glossed over by Luso-tropicalist (and Luso-orientalists) discourse. Despite their propagandistic nature and their impact on the socio-cultural memories and narrative identities of the former Portuguese territories in Asia, visual representations of colonialism have largely remained unquestioned. By analysing the impact of such representations in cinema, photography and literature, among other media, the book aims to distinguish between the circumstances of “Portuguese India”, Macau and Timor while also considering anti-(post)colonial ruptures and persistences.

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Author:   Maria do Carmo Piçarra
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:  

9783032032683

ISBN 10:   3032032687
Pages:   354
Publication Date:   03 January 2026
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Part I: Contributions to a Genealogical Analysis of Luso-Orientalist Representations.- Chapter 1: “Luso-orientalist” Visions of “Portuguese Asia”: An Imaginary Shrouded in Ruins.- Chapter 2: Goa in Black and White: Souza & Paul’s Photographs in Catalogues, Albums, Exhibitions and Archives, In and Out of India.- Chapter 3: Colonial Representations of Macau and the Macanese: Circulation, Knowledge, Identities and Challenges for the Future.- Chapter 4: Photographic Representations of Timor at the Turn of the 19th Century.- Chapter 5: Macau in the Movies: “Portugal in the far east” or “gambling hell”?.- Chapter 6: The India of Augusto Cabrita.- Part II: Anti-(Post)Colonial Ruptures and Persistences.- Chapter 7: Re-envisioning a Portuguese Colony: Indonesian Photographic Representations of East Timor.- Chapter 8:  Liberating Memories of India and Goa: The Politics of Edila Gaitonde’s Anticolonial Life Writing.- Chapter 9: Índia (1973-1975) de António Faria. Luso-orientalism and the Persistence of Empire in Portuguese Society.- Chapter 10: Reappropriating the Colonial Neutral Gaze: Macau’s Filmic Representation.- Chapter 11: All Cultures, all Arts, all Styles: Paulo Rocha’s A Ilha dos Amores and its Singularity.- Chapter 12: Representing the Voyage of Voyages: the Orient and the Imaginary of the “Discoveries” in Contemporary Portuguese Travel Writing.- Chapter 13: R. V. Pandit and Yao Feng: Two Asian Poets of the Image.- Chapter 14: Acts of Random Archiving.

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Maria do Carmo Piçarra is vice-coordinator of ICNOVA, an assistant professor at UAL, and a film curator. Her academic interests include (post)colonial filmic representations, film propaganda and censorship, women in decolonisation and militant uses of the image. Her book Easterly Wind: Luso-Orientalism(s) in the Dictatorship's Films is scheduled for publication in 2025.

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