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Author Brookshaw, David Rowan

Title Perceptions of China in Modern Portuguese Literature Border Gates : Border Gates
Published Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (208 pages)
Series Studies in Portuguese Literature ; v. 1
Studies in Portuguese literature.
Contents Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword and Acknowledgements; Preface; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Native Colonial or Colonial Native? China Through the Eyes of Camilo Pessanha; Chapter 3: Orients of the imagination: Eça de Queirós and Miguel Torga; Chapter 4: Hidden Dangers: the Orient of the Colonial Novel; Chapter 5: Insiders and Outsiders: the China of Deolinda da Conceição and Maria Ondina Braga; Chapter 6: Women on the Periphery; Chapter 7: Macau as Roots and the Fiction of Henrique de Senna Fernandes
Chapter 8: Macau as Routes: The Novels of Rodrigo Leal de CarvalhoChapter 9: TheLiterature of Transition; Chapter 10: Conclusion: Exile, Return, NewDepartures; Bibliographical Sources; Index
Summary Much has been written about perceptions of China in English and French literatures, but relatively little on Portuguese literature, in spite of Portugal's long association with the Far East and presence in Macau. While most of the existing scholarship has focused on the early period of Portuguese contact with China, Dr. Brookshaw's book concentrates specifically on the literature of the last one hundred years. The convulsive events of 11 September 2001 brought fears of a cataclysmic clash of civilizations, of races and of religions. The creeping homogenization of the global village, on Western
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Subject Portuguese literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Spanish & Portuguese.
Literature
Portuguese literature
SUBJECT China -- In literature. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024204
Subject China
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780773411890
0773411895