The unique confrontation with the colonial ideology of the “Overseas Authors” Publishing Collection of the Empire Students’ House
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https://doi.org/10.22409/abriluff.v10i20.29946Keywords:
“Overseas Authors” Publishing Collection, Empire Students’ House, colonialism, colonial ideology, violence.Abstract
As CEI (Empire Students’ House) was born under the auspices of Minister of Colonies of Portugal, Vieira Machado, in the early 40s of the 20th Century, as consecration of aggrandizement and defense policy of the colonial empire (FARIA, 1997, p. 2), it may seem paradoxical that an institution which was supposed to work as a “triumph of the Portuguese spirit” could generate as many divisive cartridges of historical consciousness of the regime. One such cartridges beyond the African Studies Centre (created by CEI students, but that did not work in the CEI space) is the Collection “Overseas Authors” in which, despite the name, the most emblematic works of African anti-colonial literature were published. The purpose of this paper is to reveal the intricacies of this editorial guidance showing how it addressed the “colonial question” and served as a strategy to fight the violence of colonial ideology the aim of which was the subalternization of African identities.
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