Author Name:
Luís Maduereira
Publisher:
Mellen Press
Publication Year:
2007
Imaginary Geographies interrogates a series of utopian projections that have informed Portuguese and Luso-African letters and culture since the Renaissance. Concentrating on the three crucial historical moments, Portugal’s precarious 16th-century”empire,” the decolonization process in the mid-1970s, and the post-independence in Africa, it examines the familiar “long narrative” which casts the Portuguese Discoveries as an inaugural and enabling event in Europe’s conquest of the world.