The Indian Ocean and the Portuguese-Speaking World : Literary and Cultural Intersections : 20

"Working from the premise that the Indian Ocean shapes new transnational imaginative geographies, this volume analyses how visual and written narratives from Lusophone, or rather 'Lusotopic', spaces - Portugal, Mozambique, East Timor and Goa - point to productive critical dialogues with the existing theories in Indian Ocean studies. For the Lusophone studies, the conceptual and epistemological revision presented in the book allows for the emergence of different theoretical constellations that are not solely based on the opposition between coloniality and the postcolonial condition, nor grounded upon the concept of linguistic or national identity, pointing to a set of original critical developments within the area of Indian Ocean studies"--