Mapping Goa in the Private Itineraries of Portuguese Contemporary Poets

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https://doi.org/10.11606/va.v0i30.114813

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Pprtuguese orientalism, contemporary poetry, post-colonial literature, India, Goa

Abstract

In the course of the 20th and 21st centuries, Portuguese poetry revisits the East and the overseas territories through a set of images and concepts that draw upon the distant sixteenth century Portuguese empire. The interest in the inaugural moments of this encounter reveals a quiet but coherent permanence of this topic in Portuguese literature. The rediscovery of India is a true exercise of aesthetic magnitude: learning glances are allegorized and intimate itineraries between the lived and the dreamed are unveiled. We propose looking at texts in which India or Goa play a central role, in order to interpret the symbolic weight that the "journey to India" takes on today's Portuguese poetry.

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Author Biography

  • Catarina Nunes de Almeida, Centro de Estudos Comparatistas da Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa
    Nasce em Lisboa, em Agosto de 1982. Leccionou durante dois anos na Universidade de Pisa e concluiu, em 2012, na Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, uma Tese de Doutoramento intitulada Migração Silenciosa – Marcas do Pensamento Estético do Extremo Oriente na Poesia Portuguesa Contemporânea. Actualmente está a trabalhar num projecto de investigação de Pós-Doutoramento (com uma bolsa da Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia) no Centro de Estudos Comparatistas da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, também  no âmbito do Orientalismo Português. É ainda co-autora da antologia poética Nau-Sombra: os orientes da poesia portuguesa do século XX (Nova Vega, 2013). 

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Published

2016-12-28

Issue

Vol. 17 No. 2 (2016): Goa - literatura e cultura 2

Section

Dossiê 30: Goa - Literatura e Cultura 2

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ALMEIDA, Catarina Nunes de. Mapping Goa in the Private Itineraries of Portuguese Contemporary Poets. Via Atlântica, São Paulo, v. 17, n. 2, p. 201–212, 2016. DOI: 10.11606/va.v0i30.114813. Disponível em: https://periodicos.usp.br/viaatlantica/article/view/114813.. Acesso em: 14 mar. 2025.