Global Portuguese

Literary, Historical, Sociolinguistic and Anthropological Approaches

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Global Portuguese results from conferences convened at the University of London School of Advanced Study to highlight legacies of Portuguese empire in postcolonial societies. Its chapters trace Portuguese legacies from the early modern to contemporary period through history, anthropology, language, literature, linguistics, and cuisine. There are sections devoted to sociolinguistic and anthropological method, and studies on Thailand, Sri Lanka, Goa, Macau, Brazil, Angola, Indonesia, São Tomé, and Zambesia.

Contributors are: Matthias Rõhrig Assunção, Dorothée Boulanger, Silvia Figueiredo Brandão, David Brookshaw, Paul Melo e Castro, Augusto Soares da Silva, Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya, Stefan Halikowski Smith, Annabel Jackson, Ivana Stolze Lima, Selina Patel Nascimento, Malyn Newitt, Gerhard Seibert, Andrzej Stuart-Thompson, Raan-Hann Tan, and Silvia Rodrigues Vieira.

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Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya is Visiting Professor at the University of Visual & Performing Arts, Colombo and former Visiting Professor at the Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto. She is Senior Research Fellow at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. At the University of Cambridge, Shihan is Senior Associate at Lucy Cavendish College, and Research Associate at the Department of Modern and Medieval Languages & Linguistics. She is also a Discretionary Associate, Faculty of History, University of Oxford.

Stefan Halikowski Smith is Guest Professor at KU Leuven and Honorary Associate Research Professor at Warwick University. He trained in Portuguese overseas history at the European University Institute in Fiesole, Italy, and is the author of Creolization and Diaspora in the Portuguese Indies. The Social World of Ayutthaya, 1640-1720. Brill (2011).
General Series Editor’s Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
List of Figures
List of Tables
Notes on Contributors

Introduction
 Stefan HalikowskiSmith

Part 1 Approaches to Historical Sociolinguistics



1 Portuguese in the World and Its Standardisation: between the Reality of a Pluricentric Language and the Desire for an International Language
 Augusto SoaresdaSilva

2 The Portuguese of Brazil IS Multiple: A Sociolinguistic Approach
 Silvia FigueiredoBrandão and Silvia Rodrigues Vieira

3 National Language and African Voices in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
 Ivana StolzeLima

4 Multilingualism and the Sri Lanka Portuguese Dialect of an Afro-Diasporic Community
 Shihan deSilvaJayasuriya

Part2 Approaches to Social Anthropology



5 The Portuguese Village in Jakarta: Kinship, Residence and Naming
 Raan-Hann Tan

6 Portuguese Culinary Legacy in Asia: An Exploration of Macanese Cuisine
 Annabel Jackson

7 São Tomé’s Popular Theatre Tchiloli: The Persistence of Unproven Claims of Its Sixteenth-Century Introduction
 Gerhard Seibert

Part3 Approaches to History



8 Creolization and Diaspora in the Portuguese Indies: The Social World of Ayutthaya, 1640–1720
 Stefan HalikowskiSmith

9 “Upholding the Constitution and the Saintly Catholic Religion, Loving the Fatherland and the Emperor”
Popular Liberalism in the Balaiada rebellion in the Brazilian province of Maranhão
 Matthias RöhrigAssunção

10 Seventeenth Century ‘Culture Wars’: António Gomes’ SJ Description of the East African Mission
 Malyn Newitt

11 Concubines, Companions, and Convicts: Women in Exile in the Portuguese Empire, 1500–1800
 Selina PatelNascimento

Part4 Approaches to Literature



12 Palimpsests of Portugueseness: Lusophone Residues in Postcolonial Literature in English
 David Brookshaw

13 Revolutionary Languages in Angolan Boyhood Narratives: Literary Filiations from Luandino Vieira to Ondjaki
 Dorothée Boulanger and Andrzej Stuart-Thompson

14 From Goa in Portuguese to the Anglophone World: The Case of ‘The Rats’ by Epitácio Pais’ as World Literature’
 Paul Castro

15 Epilogue
 Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya

Index
This book is especially suitable for university Hispanic Studies' departmental libraries, whereby both undergraduates and postgraduates might profit from it.
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