Gender, Empire, and Postcolony: Luso-Afro-Brazilian Intersections

230 Pages·2014·3.62 MB·English

by  Hilary Owen

Gender, Empire, and Postcolony
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Gender, Empire, and Postcolony
Luso-- A fro- Brazilian Intersections
Edited by Hilary Owen and Anna M. Klobucka
gender, empire, and postcolony
Copyright © Hilary Owen and Anna M. Klobucka, 2014.
Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2014 978-1-137-34341-3
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Gender, empire, and postcolony : Luso- Afro- Brazilian intersections /
edited by Hilary Owen and Anna M. Klobucka.
pages cm
1. Portuguese
literature— 20th century— History and criticism. 2. African literature
(Portuguese)— 20th century— History and criticism. 3. Brazilian
literature— 20th century— History and criticism. 4. Gender identity in
literature. 5. Imperialism in literature. 6. Postcolonialism in literature.
I. Owen, Hilary, 1961– editor of compilation. II. Klobucka, Anna,
1961– editor of compilation.
PQ9055.G46 2014
869.09'981— dc23 2014005450
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Contents
List of Figures vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
Anna M. Klobucka and Hilary Owen
Part I: Lusotropicalist Affect and Anti-I mperial Ethics 17
1 Pessoa’s Gandhi: Meditations on a Lost Heteronym 19
Leela Gandhi
2 Love Is All You Need: Lusophone
Affective Communities after Freyre 33
Anna M. Klobucka
3 Lusotropicalist Entanglements:
Colonial Racisms in the Postcolonial Metropolis 49
Ana Paula Ferreira
Part II: Empire of the Lenses: Cinema and the Post/Colonial Gaze 69
4 Filming Women in the Colonies:
Gender Roles in New State Cinema about the Empire 71
Patrícia Vieira
5 Colonial Masculinities under a Woman’s
Gaze in Margarida Cardoso’s A Costa dos Murmúrios 87
Mark Sabine
6 Making War on the Isle of Love: Screening Camões
in Manoel de Oliveira’s Non, ou a Vã Glória de Mandar 111
Hilary Owen
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Part III: Postcoloniality and Gender Politics in Visual Arts 125
7 Not Your Mother’s Milk: Imagining the Wet Nurse in Brazil 127
Kimberly Cleveland
8 Salazar’s Boots: Paula Rego and the Road to Disorder 141
Memory Holloway
9 A Turma do Pererê: Visualizations
of Gender in a Brazilian Children’s Comic 159
Elise M. Dietrich
Part IV: Heroes, Antiheroes, and the Myth of Power 173
10 Karingana Wa Karingana:
Representations of the Heroic Female in Mozambique 175
Maria Tavares
11 Gender, Species, and Coloniality in Maria Velho da Costa 191
M. Irene Ramalho Santos
12 Restelo Redux: Heroic Masculinity
and the Return of the Repressed Empire in As Naus 203
Steven Gonzagowski
About the Contributors 219
Index 221
Figures
4.1 Mariazinha (Isabel Tovar) at a gathering
in a colonial house in Spell of the Empiree 75
4.2 Maria (Maria Lourdes Norberto) and Daniel (Artur
Semedo) fear the uprising of the Africans in Chaimitee 77
4.3 Maria (Maria Lourdes Norberto), Daniel
(Artur Semedo), and their son on their
African farm in Chaimitee 79
5.1 Beatriz Batarda as the split
and evasive Evita in A Costa dos Murmúrioss 94
5.2 Evita looking toward Helena’s house 96
5.3 Luis’s return from active service,
disillusioned and diminished 101
6.1 Cupids of different races ranged in order of size 118
6.2 Oliveira’s black Cupid looking ahead 119
7.1 Lucílio de Albuquerque, Mãe Pretaa (Black Motherr),
1912, oil on canvas, 150 × 113 cm, Collection of
the Museum of Art of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil 135
7.2 Júlio Guerra,Monumento à Mãe Preta
(Monument to the Black Motherr), 1955, bronze,
São Paulo, Brazil; Photograph by Kimberly
Cleveland, 2009 137
8.1 Paula Rego,When We Had a House in the Country,
1961, collage and oil on canvas, 49.5 × 244.5 cm,
Cascais, Casa das Histórias, Museu Paula Rego 142
8.2 Paula Rego,The Policeman’s Daughter, 1987,
acrylic on paper on canvas, 213.4 × 152.4 cm 150
8.3 Paula Rego,The Interrogator’s Garden, 2000, pastel
on paper mounted on aluminum, 120 × 110 cm 153
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Acknowledgments
We would like to acknowledge the extensive and generous support of the Uni-
versity of Massachusetts Dartmouth for hosting the international conference on
Gender, Empire and Postcolony: Intersections in Luso-A fro-B razilian Studiessin Octo-
ber 2009, which we had the pleasure of coorganizing and which laid the initial
foundation for this volume. For their sponsorship of the conference, we thank the
Camões Institute of Portugal and the following entities at UMass Dartmouth:
Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture, College of Arts and Sciences, College
of Visual and Performing Arts, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies,
Department of Portuguese, African and African American Studies Program, Cen-
ter for Indic Studies, and Office for Faculty Development. As associate organizer
of the conference, Gina M. Reis worked tirelessly on many crucial and often
invisible fronts. This volume has also benefited from the ongoing support of
the Instituto Camões-Cátedra Sophia de Mello Breyner at the University of
Manchester. We are grateful to one and all for making this event as successful
as it proved to be.
We also thank all the excellent contributors to this volume for their hard
work, dedication, professionalism, and patience. Our sincere gratitude goes to
Brigitte Shull, the senior editor at Palgrave Macmillan, for taking this project
on and for all her constructive advice and input. Also at Palgrave Macmillan,
Naomi Tarlow and Ryan Jenkins were always quick and efficient in offering
indispensable support and assistance throughout the process of manuscript
preparation and beyond.
We are, as always, much indebted to Victor K. Mendes and Till Geiger for
their kindness and forbearance. We are particularly grateful to Till for help with
indexing and cover ideas. We also wish to thank Mark and Peer Schäffer for
kindly providing Hilary with domestic backup in 2011, and Marlo and Maya
for their patience. And finally, most profoundly, we would like to thank each
other for a highly productive, inspiring, and enjoyable collaboration.