Colonial and post-colonial Goan literature in Portuguese : woven palms

This is a comprehensive collection of essays on Goan literature in Portuguese stretching from the colonial late-nineteenth century to the post-colonial period of the 1960s and 1970s. It gives an overview of Goan Literature in Portuguese which will be useful for students and experienced scholars of Portuguese wanting an overview of this production. Cover 1 Title Page 4 Copyright 5 Contents 6 Series Editors' Foreword 8 Notes on Contributors 10 1: Introduction: The Cartography of Goan Literature in Portuguese: One Language in a Multilingual Social Landscape: Paul Melo e Castro 12 2: The Story of Goan Literature in Portuguese: A Question of Terminology: Hélder Garmes and Paul Melo e Castro 28 3: Against British Rule and Indian Castes: The First Portuguese-language Goan Novel, Os Brahmanes (1866) by Francisco Luís Gomes: Everton V. Machado 52 4: The Lives and Times of GIP and Francisco João da Costa: Sandra Ataíde Lobo 72 5: Echoes of Portuguese India in Goan Poets, 1893–1973: K. David Jackson 97 6: In the Land of 'Advogadomania': The Representation of the Goan Provisionário in José da Silva Coelho’s Contos Regionais: Luís Pedroso de Lima Cabral de Oliveira 118 7: 'The Voice of Two Worlds': Lusotropicalism in the Context and Reception of Vimala Devi’s Súria: Duarte Drumond Braga 135 8: Women without Men in Vimala Devi’s Monção: Cielo G. Festino 158 9: Women's Worlds in Women's Words: Poetry and Memory in Vimala Devi and Eunice de Souza: Joana Passos 177 10: Science over Superstition? The Representation of the Social World of the Novas Conquistas in Bodki (1962) by Agostinho Fernandes: Eufemiano Miranda and Paul Melo e Castro 190 11: Sem Flores Nem Coroas: Reflections on the Play by Orlando da Costa: M. Filomena de Brito Gomes Rodrigues 208 12: The Dregs Populating the Village of Santana: Rural Goa in Three Stories by Epitácio Pais: Paul Melo e Castro 225 13: Writing from within the Father's House and beyond: Goan Women Writing in Different Historical Spaces: Edith Noronha Melo Furtado 245 Index 268 Back Cover 272 A collection of academic articles on Goan literature in Portuguese, stretching from the colonial late-nineteenth century to the postcolonial period of the 1960s and 1970s.