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Indian Identity and Portuguese Colonialism: Adeodato Barreto\'s Civilização Hindu

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Author(s):
Lucas Henrique Lima Vecchi
Total Authors: 1
Document type: Master's Dissertation
Press: São Paulo.
Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD)
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Examining board members:
Helder Garmes; Cielo Griselda Festino; Sandra Maria Calvinho Ataíde Lobo; Everton Vasconcelos Machado
Advisor: Helder Garmes; Duarte Nuno Drumond Braga
Abstract

This dissertation intends to show that Civilização Hindu (1935), by Goan author Adeodato Barreto, sought to intervene in the social, political and cultural context of the time, aiming to collaborate with the construction of Indian nationalism and the contestation of European colonial power, through a political-pedagogical project of dissemination of the Indian tradition. We begin the analysis by highlighting how the author\'s life trajectory, born in Goa and living in Portugal in the 1920s and 1930s, approached him to the Hindu tradition. In a second step, we assess his writings and conclude that his work is constituted of a collection of essays, by confronting it with authors who theorized about this literary genre. We then compare Civilização Hindu with selected essays by Santana Rodrigues - another Goan author - and Bengali Nobel Prize winner Rabindranath Tagore, which showed how much Barreto followed a literary tradition started by Tagore, keeping narrative and argumentative elements very similar to those of the Bengali author. Within this literary tradition, Barreto presents a sociocultural project that has certain particularities, given the historical context he experienced in Portugal. Intending to express his attachment to India\'s struggle for independence, he directly confronts the English colonial enterprise, the rise of Nazifascism, the Orientalist discourse, and - this time indirectly - Salazar\'s regime in Portugal. (AU)

FAPESP's process: 19/07975-3 - Literary project and politics in Adeodato Barreto
Grantee:Lucas Henrique Lima Vecchi
Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master