1st Edition

Creating and Opposing Empire The Role of the Colonial Periodical Press

344 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

344 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

344 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Focusing on the Portuguese Empire, this book examines colonial press issued in "metropolitan" spaces and in colonies, disclosing dissonant narratives and problematizations of colonial empires. Creating and Opposing Empire is a venture of the International Group for Studies of Colonial Periodical Press of the Portuguese Empire (IGSCP-PE), which also invests on comparative studies and... Read more

Part 1: Creating

1. The international exhibitions of Antwerp (1885) and Paris (1889) in the magazine A Ilustração (1884-1892)

Tania de Luca

2. Representations of Africa and Africans in the magazine Portugal em África (1894-1910)

Josenildo Pereira

3. The Press of the Methodist Episcopal Church (MEC) in Mozambique and its colonization of African minds (1890-1968)

Simão Jaime

4. Literary Discourses in the Portuguese Colonial Press

Sandra Sousa

5. The Official Press in Equatorial Guinea. Tracing colonial and postcolonial governance in Ébano

Susana Castillo-Rodríguez

Part 2: Debating

6. Portuguese Public Opinion at the time of the Boletim e Annaes do Conselho Ultramarino

Sónia Pereira Henrique

7. The Asian colonies in the newspaper A Capital, Célia Reis

8. Portuguese Colonial Agents and Models: Metropolitan Colonial Periodicals (1912-1937)

Adelaide Vieira Machado

9. Africa in the Jornal da Europa

Sérgio Neto

Part 3: Opposing

10. Anticolonial Struggles and Resistance in the African Press (1870-1926)

Isadora de Ataíde Fonseca

11. The African Press Censorship in Mozambique. The Case Study of Brado Africano in the Twentieth Century

Olga Iglésias Neves

12. ‘Reaching the hearts of the sons of Portugal with the longings and aspirations of the sons of India’

Filipa Sousa Lopes

13. Speaking critically of Goa through Gandhi, or how to circumvent political censorship at the end of Portuguese colonialism

Daniel Melo

14. The press and the Colonial War /Liberation Struggle in Mozambique: the case of the newspaper RESSURGIMENTO, 1968-1973

Alda Romão Saúte Saíde

Biography

Adelaide Vieira Machado: Researcher of CHAM, FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. PhD in History and Theory of Ideas. Co-promoted the birth of IGSCP-PE. Published several books, chapters and articles on Contemporary History and press studies, and is presently focused on colonial intellectual and liberation movements’ press.

Isadora De Ataíde Fonesca: Assistant Professor and a Researcher at the Faculty of Human Sciences, Universidade Católica Portuguesa. Member of IGSCP-PE. Main areas of study: Press and Media Studies; the relations between popular culture and ideology; the dynamics between journalism and political regimes in Europe and Portuguese speaking countries.

Robert S. Newman: From Marblehead, Mass., USA. Taught Anthropology and Education in Australia at La Trobe University among other institutions. Published extensively on Goa and has worked as an independent scholar since leaving Australia and sees Goa as an intrinsic part of Indian civilization with a unique past.

Sandra Ataíde Lobo: Researcher of CHAM, FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. PhD in History and Theory of Ideas. Co-promoted the birth of IGSCP-PE. Among other interests, works on press and intellectual histories with particular focus in Goa and Portugal, colonialism and anti-colonialism, literature and politics, internationalism, cosmopolitan historiography.