The Moutinho, Isabel creator author text xx 2008 monographic eng

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184 pages "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 Antonio Lobo Antunes, Lidia 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 of the rhetoric of patriotism and colonialism of Antonio Salazar's regime. The author's approach is of necessity grounded in postcolonial thought, as these works represent the awakening of a post-imperial conscience in Portuguese literature and society."--Jacket. Isabel Moutinho Literary studies: from c 1900 - Literary Criticism Literature - Classics / Criticism Portuguese Portugal Spain European - Spanish & Portuguese Literature & Fiction / Literary Criticism 869.3409 MOU 9781855661585 1855661586 InACL 260928 20260928160838.0 345023 eng