Lógicas imperiais e processos contemporâneos
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2006
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Edições Universitárias Lusófonas
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É uma análise das lógicas coloniais-imperiais portuguesas a partir de nove memórias publicadas em Goa e em Portugal. São cinco os autores goeses
e quatro portugueses. Quaquer delas já vem tarde para intervir e alterar o rumo. São pós-visões do passado, e o pós-visionismo põe em risco a capacidade de
captar a contemporaneidade dos processos que acompanharam as lógicas imperiais. Mas acho que podem ter algum valor positivo de apanhar as implicações
destes processos a longo prazo.
As transições e a continuidade merecem ser levadas em conta para avaliar melhor
os processos que nos interessam e que não podem ser estudados validamente
somente na sua contemporaneidade e isolados do seu passado e do seu futuro. É com esta perspectiva de “processos contemporâneos” que eu pensei em chamar
a atenção para a utilidade das memórias “recém-publicadas” de alguns actores
que participaram nesses processos. Quero deixar um caveat: São também
armadilhas “montadas” e que nos podem distrair do verdadeiro caminho para a compreensão dos mesmos processos.
This is an analysis of the Portuguese colonial-imperial logic. The analysis is based on nine recently published memoirs. They include five Goan authors and four Portuguese authors. This analysis comes obviously too late for any intervention in those imperial processes. The memoirs always look back and are exercises which often display reduced capacity of taking into account the full logic that accompanied those processes. However, I believe that they can still serve to gauge the long term implications of those processes. Transitions and continuity need to be taken into account to better assess the processes that interest us here. They cannot be validly analysed only in the timespace context in which they took place, or in isolation from their background and subsequent effects. It is in this perspective that I choose to analyse the «contemporary processes» and I consider it still useful to analyse the memoirs of some participants in those processes. I wish however to leave a caveat: We need also to watch out for the traps that these memoirs can embody to distract us from the truth.
This is an analysis of the Portuguese colonial-imperial logic. The analysis is based on nine recently published memoirs. They include five Goan authors and four Portuguese authors. This analysis comes obviously too late for any intervention in those imperial processes. The memoirs always look back and are exercises which often display reduced capacity of taking into account the full logic that accompanied those processes. However, I believe that they can still serve to gauge the long term implications of those processes. Transitions and continuity need to be taken into account to better assess the processes that interest us here. They cannot be validly analysed only in the timespace context in which they took place, or in isolation from their background and subsequent effects. It is in this perspective that I choose to analyse the «contemporary processes» and I consider it still useful to analyse the memoirs of some participants in those processes. I wish however to leave a caveat: We need also to watch out for the traps that these memoirs can embody to distract us from the truth.
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Babilónia: Revista Lusófona de Línguas, Culturas e Tradução
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LITERATURA GOESA, COLÓNIAS PORTUGUESAS, PORTUGAL, GOA, GOAN LITERATURE, PORTUGUESE COLONIES, MEMÓRIAS, MEMORIES, PORTUGAL, GOA, LINGUÍSTICA, LINGUISTICS