Luso-Orientalism(s)-On Imagined Projections And Ruins

This book aims to explore the multiple ways in which Portuguese colonialism in former “Portuguese Asia” has been imagined.  It focuses primarily on how Estado Novo (1933–1974), the longest-running European dictatorship, “imagined” these territories and peoples. Images played a pivotal role in the exercise of colonial power, propagating established ideas and portraying a colonial reality entirely f...