The Colonial Wars in Contemporary Portuguese Fiction

by Isabel Moutinho

The Portuguese fiction that awakened public debate on imperialism

The colonial wars in Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau in the 1960s and 1970s were Portugal's Vietnam. The novels discussed in this study, written by Ant?nio Lobo Antunes, L?dia Jorge and Manuel Alegre among others, aroused passionate responses from the reading public and initiated a national debate, otherwise lacking in the contemporary press, with their systematic deconstruction...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1855661586
• ISBN13: 9781855661585
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Tamesis Books
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.3"