BOOKS LAUNCH

22nd of September – Colégio Almada Negreiros (CAN). Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. Campus de Campolide. 2nd floor, room 209.

16.20 – 17.15

Adelaide Vieira Machado, Isadora de Ataíde Fonseca, Robert Newman & Sandra Ataíde Lobo (eds.), Creating and Opposing Empire: The Role of the Colonial Periodical Press (Routledge Studies in Cultural History).

Creating and Opposing Empire:  The Role of the Colonial Periodical Press is a venture of the International Group for Studies of Colonial Periodical Press of the Portuguese Empire (IGSCP-PE), which also invests in comparative studies and conceptual discussions. This book analyses representations of the empire in colonial press published in “metropolitan” spaces and in colonies. By joining these spaces in the same analytic look, it explores dissonant narratives and problematizations of colonial empires. The diversity of angles discloses why a decolonized, democratic understanding of the world modulated by modern colonial empires needs to navigate the seas of dissonant narratives of community, nation, and empire. Thus, the book deals with ideas that in their complexity and dynamism, until late in the twentieth century, were moulded in the game between the cultural context of representations and the universality of concepts. The studies range from approaches to international exhibitions, metropolitan press, colonial models, missionary press, literary discourses, colonial and postcolonial press, constructing the “Others”, anticolonial press, democracy, dictatorship, censorship, colonial prisons press, among other themes. Its primordial focus on the Portuguese empire introduces perspectives rarely included in international discussions on colonial and imperial press histories.

Duarte Drumond Braga, Hugo Pinto (eds). A Abelha da China nos seus 200 anos (Centro Científico e Cultural de Macau).