CEsA researchers publish book on the dialogue between the Indian Ocean and written and visual narratives produced in Lusophone spaces

Researchers Ana Mafalda Leite (FLUL/ULisboa and CEsA/CSG/ISEG-ULisboa), Elena Brugioni (UNICAMP), Jessica Falconi (CEsA/CSG/ISEG-ULisboa), and Marta Banasiak (UNICAMP and CEsA/CSG/ISEG-ULisboa) co-author volume 20 of the series Reconfiguring Identities in the Portuguese-Speaking World, published by Peter Lang Verlag. The book, entitled The Indian Ocean and the Portuguese-Speaking World: Literary and Cultural Intersections (2025, 382 pages), is available for purchase on the publisher’s website for €65.51 (click here).

Abstract of The Indian Ocean and the Portuguese-Speaking World: Literary and Cultural Intersections:

Working from the premise that the Indian Ocean shapes new transnational imaginative geographies, this volume analyses how visual and written narratives from Lusophone, or rather «Lusotopic», spaces – Portugal, Mozambique, East Timor and Goa – point to productive critical dialogues with existing theories in Indian Ocean studies. The conceptual and epistemological revision presented in the book allows for the emergence of different theoretical constellations that are not solely based on the opposition between coloniality and the postcolonial condition, nor grounded upon the concept of linguistic or national identity, pointing to a set of original critical developments within the area of Indian Ocean studies.

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Peter Lang Verlag website (book purchase)