TY  - BOOK
AU  - Irene Maria F. Blayer
AU  - Dulce Maria Scott
PY  - 2016
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2378-0975
SN  - 9781453916001
TI  - Intersecting Diaspora Boundaries
T2  - Portuguese Contexts
DO  - 10.3726/978-1-4539-1600-1
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1051731
N2  - This collection of essays provides both critical and interdisciplinary means for thinking across diasporic travels within the Portuguese experience and its intersection with other peoples and cultures. The chapters are organized into four sections and offer rich, diverse, and insightful studies that provide a conceptualization of the Portuguese diaspora with special attention to the importance of cross-cultural interferences and influences. Within this framework, and from a variety of perspectives, some of the chapters depict identity-formation paths among Portuguese Jews and Luso-Indians in Australia, as well as the historical, cultural, and literary interplay among Portuguese and other diasporas in Goa, the West Indies, and Brazil. Other chapters analyze Portuguese-American literature and poetry, whereby the intersection of memory, dual identity, and place are meticulously explored. The last section of the book addresses Portuguese writers and poets who lived through (in)voluntary exile or were dislocated to Europe and Asia, and how their diasporic conditions interface with their textualized narratives. Place and memory as means of reconstructing a fragmented existence, in the writings of exiled writers, are also explored. The volume closes with a chapter on Portuguese illegal migration to France. The studies herein open new lines of inquiry into diaspora studies.
KW  - diaspora, travel, jews, luso-indians, goa
LA  - English
ER  -