scholarly journals (Post)colonial Chronopolitics and Mapping the Depth of Local Time(s) in Global Literary Studies: an Itinerary to Guinea-Bissau

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 69-83
Author(s):  
Ewa Lukaszyk ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Local Time ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Cape Verde ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The Past ◽  
Guinea Bissau ◽  
Sao Tome And Principe ◽  
The World ◽  
Cultural Belonging ◽  
Time Awareness

This article is an attempt at deconstructing the chronopolitics inherent to the (post)colonial way of thinking about the world. As it is argued, what should replace it is a vision of multiple, overlying temporalities and forms of time awareness, reaching deeper than a literary history reduced to the cycle of colonisation – decolonisation – postcolonial becoming, originating from just a single maritime event: the European exploration and conquest of the world. The essay brings forth a choice of interwoven examples illustrating the variability of local time depths, associated with a plurality of origins, narrations, forms of awareness and cultivation of cultural belonging. It shows the lack of coincidence between the dominant and non-dominant perceptions of the past in such places as the archipelagos of São Tomé and Príncipe, Maldives, the Gambia, Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau. Their ways of living the global time, as well as embodying significant texts (rather than simply preserving them) stretch far beyond the frameworks created by competing colonial empires, such as the Portuguese or the British one.

Amílcar Cabral

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
António Tomás
Keyword(s):  
Coming Of Age ◽  
Cape Verde ◽  
The Political ◽  
African Continent ◽  
Guinea Bissau ◽  
Independence Movement ◽  
The World ◽  
Portuguese Colonialism ◽  
Cape Verdeans

The Guinean-born Amílcar Cabral has been hailed as one of the most original voices in revolutionary processes on the African continent. He was not only behind one of the most resourceful independence movement in Africa, the PAIGC (African Party for the Liberation of Guinea and Cape Verde). But the challenge he posed against the colonial military might was also instrumental to end of Portuguese colonialism altogether. For reaction against Estado Novo brewed mostly in Bissau, on the account of a war the Portuguese was waging against the guerrilla and could not win. This biography describes Cabral’s upbringing in Cape Verde, his political coming of age in Lisbon, as a student in agronomy and anticolonial activist, as well as his transformation into one of the most revered revolutionaries in the world. However, contrary to most studies on Cabral, which tend to rely on the materials produced during the liberation war, this book approaches the life of Cabral from a slightly different perspective. It explores a trove of Lusophone sources, particularly those ones that use contemporary issues to illuminate historical conundrums. The political trajectory Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau have followed sheds light not only on Cabral’s quest for identity – being born in Guinea-Bissau from Cape Verdeans parents – But also on the day-to-day conduction of the anti-colonial war itself.

The African Atlantic islands in maritime history during the Ancien Régime

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 634-648 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Manuel Santana-Pérez
Keyword(s):  
Cape Verde ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Maritime History ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
Middle Atlantic ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Sao Tome And Principe ◽  
The World ◽  
World Economic ◽  
African Atlantic

This paper aims at describing and explaining certain common characteristics that have endured in the African Atlantic islands by virtue of the fact that these islands depend on centres of authority located at considerable distances away. Their location on linking routes to three continents led to the first globalization since the world economic shifts of the 16th century. The islands have sometimes been described metaphorically as a bridge, but we prefer to speak of maritime doors. These islands have been an entrance and exit for goods, people, culture, and ideas, opened or closed, depending on your point of view, through the modern age as European penetration spread. It includes the archipelagos of the Middle Atlantic, the cases of Madeira, the Canaries, Cape Verde, São Tomé, and Principe, and the Guinea Islands of Bioko, Corisco, and Annobon.

Hegemonic Power Structures: A Study of Midnight’s Children

Think India ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 843-847
Author(s):  
Dr. Sudhir Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Colonial Power ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
British Raj ◽  
The Past ◽  
British Trade ◽  
The World ◽  
State Of Mind ◽  
Midnight's Children ◽  
Present World

At the time of the Renaissance British trade flourished and reached its zenith with outward expansion of colonialism. British dominated the nineteenth century, but soon after the world wars, colonial power could neither exert the mode of control necessary to maintain their hold over the territories overseas nor morally justify their colonial hold on these territories. In the 1950s the colonized nations vigorously asserted themselves and as a result colonialism began to decline. Consequently, these marginalized civilizations resisted to colonial exploitation and subjugation. The western ideology in the last few centuries has shown an additional existential interest in Indian religion, art, culture and philosophy.Colonialism as a state of mind remains even after the formal ending of the British Raj as the ideology of Indian people is still triumphant in past. It still haunts the present and the post-colonial natives try to escape from the past. Now these natives want to createa space for themselves. The oppressed subjects of the post-colonial world try to get rid of hangover of the colonial past and thus want to realize the present world themselves. The oppressed subjects of the colonial world were treated cruelly and exploited by the imperial structures of power. The present paper tries to critically explore hegemonic power structures in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight Children.

European Literature: Simply a Higher Degree of Universality?

2009 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pascale Casanova
Keyword(s):  
Literary History ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
The Body ◽  
European Literature ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Europe ◽  
Literary Devices

One of the most difficult and uncertain areas of research offered the historian of literature today is the attempt to define ‘European literature’ as a corpus and an object of literary and/or historical analysis. The various efforts of the past few years – in the form of anthologies as well as histories of literature – usually remain torn between a unitary presupposition that seems to be the only acceptable political-historical way of justifying the body of European literature and an irreducibly composite – not to say heterogeneous – reality that is not amenable to the representations of Europe as reduced to this superficial unity. If we are to reflect on the modalities and specificities of such a historical undertaking – which has so few equivalents in the world that it is all the harder to model – and shake off political models and representations, it seems to me that we need to work from another hypothesis. One of the few trans-historical features that constitutes Europe, in effect, one of the only forms of both political and cultural unity – one that is paradoxical but genuine – that makes of Europe a coherent whole, is none other than the conflicts3 and competitions that pitted Europe’s national literary spaces against one another in relentless and ongoing rivalry. Starting from this hypothesis, we would then have to postulate that, contrary to commonly accepted political representations, the only possible literary history of Europe would be the story of the rivalries, struggles and power relations between these national literatures. As a consequence, rather than a unity that remains if not problematic at least far from being achieved, it would no doubt be better to speak of an ongoing literary unification of Europe, in other words a process that occurs, occurred and is still occurring – paradoxically – through these struggles. This upside-down history would trace the models and counter-models, the powers and dependences, the impositions and the resistances, the linguistic rivalries, the literary devices and genres regarded as weapons in these specific, perpetual and merciless struggles. It would be the history of literary antagonisms, battles and revolts.

Socialist Politics in Lusophone Africa

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael G. Panzer
Keyword(s):  
Political Orientation ◽  
Cape Verde ◽  
Colonial Rule ◽  
Cape Verde Islands ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Guinea Bissau ◽  
Sao Tome And Principe ◽  
Liberation Movements ◽  
Sao Tome E Principe ◽  
Portuguese Colonialism

From the 1950s through the 1970s, several liberation movements emerged in Lusophone Africa (Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, São Tomé and Príncipe, and the Cape Verde Islands) that fought for independence from Portugal. One of the most significant ideological frameworks that informed the political orientation of these movements was socialism. In Lusophone Africa, several liberation leaders gravitated toward the economic and political potentialities inherent in the discourses and practices of pan-Africanism and Afro-socialism. The liberation movements in Lusophone Africa that most identified with a socialist paradigm were the Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola (MPLA of Angola); Frente de Libertação de Moçambique (FRELIMO of Mozambique); Partido Africano da Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde (PAIGC of Guinea-Bissau and the Cape Verde Islands); and Comité de Libertação de São Tomé e Príncipe (CLSTP—later, MLSTP—of São Tomé and Príncipe). These groups suffered the burden of Portuguese colonialism and actively fought for independence from colonial rule. Although several other liberation movements also emerged in the Lusophone colonies, these four movements most espoused the hallmarks of Afro-socialism to challenge Portuguese colonial rule. All four liberation movements maintained networks with international actors opposed to colonialism, as well as diplomatic connections with sympathetic socialist and communist nations. Most notable among these bases of support were the Conferência das Organizações Nacionalistas das Colónias Portuguesas (CONCP) and the governments of Tanzania, Egypt, Guinea, the People’s Republic of China, East Germany, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), and Cuba.

scholarly journals A review of antimalarial plants used in traditional medicine in communities in Portuguese-Speaking countries: Brazil, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, São Tomé and Príncipe and Angola

2011 ◽  
Vol 106 (suppl 1) ◽  
pp. 142-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jefferson Rocha de A Silva ◽  
Aline de S Ramos ◽  
Marta Machado ◽  
Dominique F de Moura ◽  
Zoraima Neto ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Traditional Medicine ◽  
Cape Verde ◽  
Guinea Bissau ◽  
Sao Tome And Principe

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
António Tomás
Keyword(s):  
Cape Verde ◽  
The Political ◽  
Guinea Bissau ◽  
The World ◽  
Portuguese Colonialism

Undoubtedly, Cabral was one of the most successful guerrilla leaders in the world. Through the movement he created, the PAIGC, he not only contributed to the liberation of Guinea-Bissau from Portuguese colonialism, but he also produced revolutionary theory. Furthermore, his quest for independence was also instrumental to the end of the Portuguese colonial regime and dictatorship itself. This introduction asks the question: almost five decades since his tragic killing in the hand of his own men, and the independence of Guinea and Cape Verde, how can the legacy of Cabral be re-interpreted in the lights of the political trajectory these countries of Lusophone Africa have followed?

scholarly journals History of Early Colonization and Displacement of the Aboriginals: Oscar and Lucinda

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-40
Author(s):  
Ashok Kumar Pathania ◽  
◽  
Dr. Anshu Raj Purohit ◽  
Dr. Subhash Verma ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Historical Fiction ◽  
Main Stream ◽  
Colonial Literature ◽  
Truth Telling ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The Past ◽  
British Colonization ◽  
The World ◽  
Ruling Elites ◽  
History Of

The post colonial literature questions the legitimacy and completeness of history written in form of the chronicles of kings, princes, privileged ruling elites and the colonial and imperial ways of ruling the weaker territories across the world. Such power based narratives of the rulers, also termed as ‘mainstream history’, offer, either less space, for the indigenous, ‘subalterns’ or the conquered, or misrepresented them as the black, inferiors, uncivilized or aboriginals. The mainstreaming of history in this sense is the authoritative completeness or truth telling of the past. It is propagated as a matter of telling the story of past which can never be available as undistorted or pure. The novels of Peter Carey, the famous Australian novelist, re-evaluate the intricacies of history written by mainstream historians through their writings. In the historical fiction of Carey the convicts, rebellions, historical legends, systematic suppression and colonization of Aboriginals find justifiable records of their voices which could find place in the main stream version of history. The present paper is an attempt to analyse Peter Carey’s Oscar and Lucinda (1988) as purely a historical projection of nineteenth century Australia that portrays the early phase of British colonization of the continent particularly when the British administrators and historians were writing the saga of discovering and settling a newly occupied landmass. It unravels the process of spreading the Christianity in the newly occupied land which was one of the main strategies of British colonization across its colonies.

The ArtAfrica project

2008 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-10
Author(s):  
Ana Barata
Keyword(s):  
African Descent ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Cape Verde ◽  
African Continent ◽  
Exchange Of Information ◽  
Guinea Bissau ◽  
Sao Tome And Principe ◽  
Local Contexts ◽  
Post Colonialism

The ArtAfrica project was launched by the Fine Arts Department of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in January 2001, as part of its policy of aiding development. Its aim is to promote and stimulate knowledge and understanding of the work of contemporary African artists, in particular those of African descent resident in the five Portuguese-speaking countries in Africa – Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, and São Tomé and Principe – but also those in communities of emigrants from the African continent in diasporas based in Portugal, Europe and elsewhere. The project’s goals are to create opportunities for dialogue, collaboration and the exchange of information, especially about those five countries, and in addition to provide a platform from which to launch widespread debate on post-colonialism in local contexts.

Conclusion

2021 ◽  
pp. 167-172
Author(s):  
Emelia Quinn
Keyword(s):  
Literary History ◽  
Present Moment ◽  
Anglophone Literature ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
Urgent Necessity

The concluding chapter provides a comprehensive summary of the preceding arguments, reflecting on the pervasive presence of the monstrous vegan trope across the past 200 years of Anglophone literature. The Conclusion asserts that the monstrous vegan is more than simply an interesting facet of literary history. The monstrous vegan offers a vital way of re-conceptualizing veganism in the present moment, a way of thinking through the complex coming together of utopianism and insufficiency that inhere in vegan modes of being in the world. The monstrous vegan provides an apt figuration for such complexities, as a composition of hybrid remains that resists fixed or stable meaning. It provides also a way of thinking about veganism through literature, and acknowledges the discursively constructed nature of ethical identities more broadly. The re-conceptualization of veganism through the monstrous is of urgent necessity in a world under threat from ecological collapse.

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