Representations of post-colonial catholic Goa and the “poetics of dirt” in the travel chronicle “Goa the Unique” (1964), by Graham Greene
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https://doi.org/10.11606/va.v0i30.122653Keywords:
Goa, catholicism, poetics of dirt, travel chronicle, Graham GreeneAbstract
In December 1963, the renowned English novelist Graham Greene (1904-1991) visited Goa while working for the Sunday Times. The following year he published the travel chronicle “Goa the Unique”. This article deals with the representation of Catholic Goa two years after the end of the Portuguese colonial administration (when the territory’s future was still uncertain), through the topoi of the uniqueness of a sanitary Catholic Goa compared to a threatening, dirty, and sick India (poetics of dirt), metaphors that were already recurrent in English literature.
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