Global Portuguese

Literary, Historical, Sociolinguistic and Anthropological Approaches
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-71050-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 44, 374 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 699 g

Reihe: European Expansion and Indigenous Response

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Silva Jayasuriya, Shihan de

Halikowski Smith, Stefan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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).