Portuguese decolonization in the Indian Ocean world : history and ethnography /

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Main Author: Gupta, Pamila (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Studying decolonization
  • Prelude
  • Introduction
  • Writing about decolonization
  • Portuguese (de)colonization: Three conditions
  • Textual and visual landscapes
  • 2. Entangling decolonizations: Goa, Mozambique and Angola
  • Introduction
  • Goa, Mozambique and Angola: Portuguese decolonization in India and Africa, 1961--1975
  • Goa
  • Mozambique
  • Angola
  • Decolonization of the third empire
  • 3. Emigrating Goans
  • Introduction
  • Indian Ocean ethnographies
  • Imperial connections: Goa and Mozambique
  • Empire builders, agency and the spirit of the times (1920s)
  • Goan decolonization, resistance and neocolonialism (1950s--1960s)
  • Mozambican independence, chaos and dreams (1975)
  • Conclusion
  • 4. Goans going fishing
  • Introduction
  • Indian Ocean fishing
  • Goans going fishing
  • Literary and photographic interventions: text and image Couto and Rangel
  • (Ethnographic) notes on a ritual
  • Taking the ferry
  • Waiting for the wind
  • Performing the Catholic mass
  • Blessing the boats
  • Eating prawns
  • 5. Dispossessing things
  • Introduction
  • Writing about decolonization
  • Thinking about things
  • Ricardo Rangel: `The departure of the colonialists'
  • Carlos Garcao: `We must take care'
  • Ryszard Kapuscinski: `We were imprisoned in a besieged city'
  • Conclusion: On the postcolony
  • 6. Driving from Angola to South Africa
  • Introduction
  • Decolonization as a diasporic port of entry
  • Exile or saying goodbye
  • Refugees, toilets and `second class citizenship'
  • Conclusion: Portuguese-ness in post-apartheid South Africa
  • 7. Renovating in Beira
  • Introduction
  • On ruination
  • On Beira
  • On renovation
  • (Landscapes of) leisure
  • Ferroviario swimming pool
  • Novocine movie theatre
  • Grande Hotel
  • Riviera cafe
  • aerial viewpoint
  • Reflecting: From Mozambique to Goa.