Gender, Empire, and Postcolony Luso-Afro-Brazilian Intersections [Hardcover]

Analyzing a wide body of cultural texts, including literature, film, and other visual arts, Gender, Empire, and Postcolony: Luso-Afro-Brazilian Intersections is a diverse collection of essays on gender in Portuguese colonialism and Lusophone postcolonialism.Introduction: Anna M. Klobucka and Hilary Owen PART I: LUSOTROPICALIST AFFECT AND ANTI-IMPERIAL ETHICS 1. Pessoa's Works on the Self: Toward an Anti-Imperial Askesis; Leela Gandhi, 2. Lusotropicalist Entanglements: Colonial Racisms in the Postcolonial Metropolis; Ana Paula Ferreira 3. Love Is All You Need: Lusophone Affective Communities after Freyre; Anna M. Klobucka PART II: EMPIRE OF THE LENSES: CINEMA AND THE POST/COLONIAL GAZE 4. Filming Women in the Colonies: Gender Roles in New State Cinema about the Empire; Patr?cia Vieira 5. Colonial Masculinities under a Woman's Gaze in Margarida in Margarida Cardoso's A Costa dos Murm?rios ; Mark Sabine 6. Making War on the Isle of Love: Screening Cam?es in Manoel de Oliveira's Non, ou a V? Gl?ria de Mandar ; Hilary Owen PART III: POSTCOLONIALITY AND GENDER POLITICS IN VISUAL ARTS 7. Not Your Mother's Milk: Imagining the Wet Nurse in Brazil; Kimberly Cleveland 8. Salazar's Boots: Women, Power and Authority in the Work of Paula Rego; Memory Holloway 9. A Turma do Perer? : Visualizations of Gender in a Brazilian Children's Comic; Elise Dietrich PART IV: HEROES, ANTI-HEROES, AND THE MYTH OF POWER 10. Karingana Wa Karingana : Representations of the Heroic Female in Mozambique; Maria Tavares 11. Gender, Species and Coloniality in Maria Velho da Costa; Maria Irene Ramalho 12. Restelo Redux: Heroic Masculinity and the Return of the Repressed Empire in As Naus ; Steven Gonzagowski

Gender, Empire, and Postcolony is an outstanding collection of essays written by many prominent figures in the field of Lusophone Studies. It centers on cultural production in the realms of literature, cinema, painting, photography, sculpture, and comic books that highlights complex genderedl#%