The colonial wars in Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau in the 1960s and 1970s were Portugal's Vietnam. The novels discussed in this study, written by Antonio Lobo Antunes, Lidia Jorge and Manuel Alegre among others, aroused passionate responses from the reading public and initiated a national debate, otherwise lacking in the contemporary press, with their systematic deconstruction of the rhetoric of patriotism and colonialism of Antonio Salazar's regime. Index, bib, 176pp, UK. TAMESIS BOOKS.

Addresses the Lusophone Black Atlantic as a space of historical and cultural production between Portugal, Brazil, and Africa. The authors demonstrate how it has been shaped by diverse colonial cultures including the Portuguese imperial project. The Lusophone context offers a unique perspective on the history of the Atlantic. 272pp, UK. PALGRAVE.

1975 Hardback

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1989 Hardback

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A volume in the 'Portuguese Encounters with the World in the Age of the Discoveries' series. Contents: 1. Contacts of the early Portuguese navigators with the peoples of the East African coast; 2. Early description of East Africa and its peoples; 3. The Portuguese factory; The Silveira mission; 5. The Barreto-Homem expedition; 6. The Zimba; 7. Portuguese descriptions of the peoples of East Africa; 8. Shipwrecks and the South; 9. Portuguese wars in the interior in the seventeenth century; 10. Descriptions of Portuguese towns and settlements; 11. Journeys of exploration; 12. Decline & fall of the Portuguese on the Zimbabwe plateau. xxxii, 192pp. Gloss., Bib., Index. UK. ASHGATE PUBLISHERS, 0754601811

In the wake of African decolonization, Brazil attempted to forge connections with newly independent nations. In the early 1960s, it launched an effort to establish diplomatic ties with African countries; in the 1970s, it undertook trade campaigns to open African markets to Brazilian technology. This book reveals the perceptions, particularly regarding race, of the diplomats and intellectuals who travelled to Africa on Brazil's behalf. 328pp, USA. DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

A study of the connections between nationhood, sex and gender in lusophone countries. The author uses the critical lenses of gay and lesbian studies, feminist and postmodern theory and postcolonial perspectives to address the literature of the Portuguese speaking world. Index, notes, refs, xxxvii, 317pp, USA. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS, 0816639213

A study of the contemporary cultural production of Portuguese-speaking Africa and its critical engagement with globalization in the aftermath of colonialism, especially since the advent of multiparty politics and market-oriented economies. Exploring the evolving relationship of Lusophone Africa with Portugal, its former colonial power, and Brazil, Fernando Arenas situates the countries on the geopolitical map of contemporary global forces. Drawing from popular music, film, literature, cultural history, geopolitics, and critical theory to investigate the postcolonial condition of Portuguese-speaking Africa, Arenas offers an entirely original discussion of world music phenomenon Cesária Évora, as well as the most thorough examination to date of Lusophone African cinema and of Angolan post-civil-war fiction. 368pp, USA. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS.

Argues Portugal's economic integration into the European Union (EU) in 1996 fundamentally changed ordinary encounters between African migrants and Portuguese citizens. This economic transition is examined through transformations in popular ideologies of difference that occurred in workspaces in Lisbon between the mid-1990s and the early 2000s. Considers how both antiracism and racism instantiate proof of Portugal's European conversion and modernization, respectively. The ethnographic focus is a former undocumented fish market that at one time employed both Portuguese and Cape Verdean women. Both groups eventually sought work in low-wage professions as maids, nannies, or restaurant kitchen help. The visibility of poor Portuguese women as domestics was thought to negate the appearance of Portuguese modernity. By contrast, the association of poor African women with domestic work confirmed it. 224pp, USA. DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

A collection of historical essays on the Portuguese colonial expansion in Africa, focusing mostly on Angola. Birmingham surveys this colonial encounter from its earliest roots and casts new light on its traumatic legacies. Chapters headings include Traditions, Migrations and Cannibalism; Iberian Conquistadores and African Resisters in the Kongo Kingdom; and Black and White in Angolan Fiction. Index, notes, viii, 203pp, UK. PALGRAVE.

A concise survey of history and change from the 1870s to the 1970s. Index, bib, gloss, 278pp, UK. HURST & CO.

This carefully researched book documents the events of Portugal's colonial expansion into the African continent, the characters and personalities, the wars and battles, and the gradually changing social structure of the colonies. Maps, b/w illus, 256pp, SOUTH AFRICA. GALAGO BOOKS.

Portugal was the oldest colonial power in Africa and the history of her colonies is unique in the story of European expansion overseas. Dr Newitt examines Portuguese land settlement in the Zambesi valley from the time of the first contacts in the sixteenth century to 1973, both in the context of Portuguese imperial history and from the African point of view. 434pp, UK. LONGMAN.

1973 0582645581 Hardback 35.00

Presents domestic architecture as a marker of cultural identity and social status in pre-colonial africa. Sheds light on the fluidity of social change and formations of identity in Lusophone communities. Index, bib, notes, b/w photos, maps, x, 208pp, USA. INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS.

Brings together a collection of documents - all in new English translation - that illustrate aspects of the encounters between the Portuguese and the peoples of North and West Africa in the period from 1400 to 1650. This period witnessed the diaspora of the Sephardic Jews, the emigration of Portuguese to West Africa and the islands, and the beginnings of the black diaspora associated with the slave trade. The documents show how the Portuguese tried to understand the societies with which they came into contact and to reconcile their experience with the myths and legends inherited from classical and medieval learning. They also show how Africans reacted to the coming of Europeans, adapting Christian ideas to local beliefs and making use of exotic imports and European technologies. The documents also describe the evolution of the black Portuguese communities in Guinea and the islands, as well as the slave trade and the way that it was organized, understood, and justified. 264pp, UK. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

A comprehensive study of the post independence Portuguese and Creole literatures of Angola, Mozambique, Guinea Bissau, Cape Verde, and Sao Tome and Principe. Places it in the historical context, with many quotations in the original language and in translation. Index, bib, vi, 314pp, UK. HURST.

An examination of cultural survival and creolisation in Brazil, focusing on the first cultures of central Africa from which the slaves came such as the Ndembu, Imbangala, Kongo amongst others. The author argues that many cultural practices including kinship, divination, and dietary restrictions were transferred and remained constant during the early period though meanings of rituals often changed as slaves coped with their new environment. Index, bib, notes, map, xiv, 296pp, USA. UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS, 0807854824

A collection of critical essays by emergent scholars on the work of neglected writers from Portuguese-speaking Africa. Index, notes, 254pp, USA. AFRICA WORLD PRESS, 0865438463