Literary project and politics in Adeodato Barreto

• Grant number: 19/07975-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: August 01, 2019
• End date: April 30, 2021
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Other Vernacular Literatures
• Principal Investigator: Helder Garmes
• Grantee: Lucas Henrique Lima Vecchi
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This project aims to analyze the work Hindu Civilization (1935) by Adeodato Barreto (1905-1937), in order to understand his literary and cultural conceptions and their relationship with the socio-political context of the time. Born in Goa, a former Portuguese colony in India, he lived in Portugal during the 1920s and 1930s, where he wrote most of his works. Hindu civilization is a book that expresses and defends the culture of age-old India. The author wrote this work while living in the country that colonized and subjugated Goa, but which at that time was interested in Indian traditions, albeit in the line of the Orientalism problematized by Edward Said. The present study proposes to discuss how the aesthetic-literary dimension of the book relates to its political dimension, since to defend the Indian tradition, especially the Hindu tradition, in the language and territory of the colonizer generated a set of contradictions that had to be overcome. (AU)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

VECCHI, Lucas Henrique Lima. Indian Identity and Portuguese Colonialism: Adeodato Barreto\'s Civilização Hindu. 2022. Master's Dissertation - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) São Paulo.