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Author:   Maria do Carmo Piçarra
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
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9783032032683

ISBN 10:   3032032687
Pages:   354
Publication Date:   03 January 2026
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Part I: Contributions to a Genealogical Analysis of Luso-Orientalist Representations.- Chapter 1: “Luso-orientalist” Visions of “Portuguese Asia”: An Imaginary Shrouded in Ruins.- Chapter 2: Goa in Black and White: Souza & Paul’s Photographs in Catalogues, Albums, Exhibitions and Archives, In and Out of India.- Chapter 3: Colonial Representations of Macau and the Macanese: Circulation, Knowledge, Identities and Challenges for the Future.- Chapter 4: Photographic Representations of Timor at the Turn of the 19th Century.- Chapter 5: Macau in the Movies: “Portugal in the far east” or “gambling hell”?.- Chapter 6: The India of Augusto Cabrita.- Part II: Anti-(Post)Colonial Ruptures and Persistences.- Chapter 7: Re-envisioning a Portuguese Colony: Indonesian Photographic Representations of East Timor.- Chapter 8:  Liberating Memories of India and Goa: The Politics of Edila Gaitonde’s Anticolonial Life Writing.- Chapter 9: Índia (1973-1975) de António Faria. Luso-orientalism and the Persistence of Empire in Portuguese Society.- Chapter 10: Reappropriating the Colonial Neutral Gaze: Macau’s Filmic Representation.- Chapter 11: All Cultures, all Arts, all Styles: Paulo Rocha’s A Ilha dos Amores and its Singularity.- Chapter 12: Representing the Voyage of Voyages: the Orient and the Imaginary of the “Discoveries” in Contemporary Portuguese Travel Writing.- Chapter 13: R. V. Pandit and Yao Feng: Two Asian Poets of the Image.- Chapter 14: Acts of Random Archiving.

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Maria do Carmo Piçarra is vice-coordinator of ICNOVA, an assistant professor at UAL, and a film curator. Her academic interests include (post)colonial filmic representations, film propaganda and censorship, women in decolonisation and militant uses of the image. Her book Easterly Wind: Luso-Orientalism(s) in the Dictatorship's Films is scheduled for publication in 2025.

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