Media and the Portuguese Empire (Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media)

This volume offers a new understanding of the role of the media in the Portuguese Empire, shedding light on the interactions between communications, policy, economics, society, culture, and national identities. Based on an interdisciplinary approach, this book comprises studies in journalism, communication, history, literature, sociology, and anthropology, focusing on such diverse subjects as the expansion of the printing press, the development of newspapers and radio, state propaganda in the metropolitan Portugal and the colonies, censorship, and the uses of media by opposition groups. It encourages an understanding of the articulations and tensions between the different groups that participated, willingly or not, in the establishment, maintenance and overthrow of the Portuguese Empire in Angola, Mozambique, São Tomé e Príncipe, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, India, and East Timor. Front Matter ....Pages i-xvi The Portuguese Empire: An Introduction (José Luís Garcia, Chandrika Kaul, Filipa Subtil, Alexandra Santos)....Pages 1-27 Media and the Portuguese and British Empires: Themes in Comparative Perspective (Chandrika Kaul)....Pages 29-53 An Overview of the Colonial Media in the Context of the Portuguese Empire (Antonio Hohlfeldt)....Pages 55-68 The Languages of the Goan Periodical Press, 1820–1933 (Sandra Ataíde Lobo)....Pages 69-86 The Press and Portuguese-British Relations at the Time of the British ‘Ultimatum’ (Paulo Jorge Fernandes)....Pages 87-105 Republicanism and Nationalism in Angola in the Late Nineteenth Century (Maria Cristina Portella Ribeiro)....Pages 107-123 The First Stirrings of Anti-Colonial Discourse in the Portuguese Press (José Luís Garcia)....Pages 125-143 The Press and Empire in Portuguese Africa, 1842–1926 (Isadora de Ataíde Fonseca)....Pages 145-159 Imperial Taboos: Salazarist Censorship in the Portuguese Colonies (Daniel Melo)....Pages 161-178 Colonisation Through Broadcasting: Rádio Clube de Moçambique and the Promotion of Portuguese Colonial Policy, 1932–1964 (Nelson Ribeiro)....Pages 179-195 The Mise-en-scène of the Empire: The 1940 Portuguese World Exhibition (Joana Ramalho)....Pages 197-216 The Luso-Tropicalist Message of the Late Portuguese Empire (Cláudia Castelo)....Pages 217-234 Reporting 4 February 1961 in Angola: The Beginning of the End of the Portuguese Empire (Tânia Alves)....Pages 235-251 Photography and Propaganda in the Fall of the Portuguese Empire: Volkmar Wentzel’s Assignments for National Geographic Magazine (Afonso Ramos)....Pages 253-274 Rising Symbol for a Falling Empire: The African Footballer Eusébio (José Ricardo Carvalheiro)....Pages 275-290 Amílcar Cabral, the PAIGC and the Media: The Struggle in Words, Sounds and Images (Teresa Duarte Martinho)....Pages 291-307 Literature Against the Empire: Narratives of the Nation in the Textbook História de Angola and in the Novel Yaka (Alexandra Santos, Filipa Subtil)....Pages 309-326 East Timor and Portugal: The Ending of Empire in the Media (Rita Ribeiro, Joaquim Costa)....Pages 327-344 Back Matter ....Pages 345-355 This volume offers a new and innovative understanding of the role of the media in the Portuguese Empire during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It sheds light on the interactions between communications, government policy, economics, society and culture. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, the book focuses on varied themes including the expansion of printing, the development of newspapers and radio, state propaganda in metropolitan Portugal and within her colonies, censorship, the use of media by opposition and nationalist groups, and comparative developments within Britain and her empire. The book aims to encourage an understanding of the articulations and tensions between the different groups that participated, willingly or not, in the establishment, maintenance and overthrow of the Portuguese Empire in Angola, Mozambique, São Tomé e Príncipe, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, India, and East Timor.-- Provided by publisher Annotation This volume offers a new understanding of the role of the media in the Portuguese Empire, shedding light on the interactions between communications, policy, economics, society, culture and national identities. Based on an interdisciplinary approach, this book comprises studies in journalism, communication, history, literature, sociology and anthropology, focusing on such diverse subjects as the expansion of the printing press, the development of newspapers and radio, state propaganda in the metropolitan Portugal and the colonies, censorship and the uses of media by opposition groups