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Exit ghost : reading Lusotropicalism as fetish (with Adorno)
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Medeiros, Paulo de (2018) Exit ghost : reading Lusotropicalism as fetish (with Adorno). Portuguese Studies Review, 26 (1). pp. 247-271. ISSN 1057-1515.
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Abstract
The main aim of the essay is to critique lusotropicalism as a version, singular as it may be, of wider currents that attempt to mask and gloss over the operations of racism and their confluence with capital and patriarchy.
I will draw on a number of thinkers and critics from Paul Gilroy to Étienne Balibar and Jacques Derrida and use concrete examples from some contemporary novels by António Lobo Antunes and Lídia Jorge to articulate how processes of exclusion continue insidiously and fully operative today still. If one is to properly resist the appeal of such a machine for perverted desire as put forth by lusotropical dreams, Theodor Adorno's notion of the ‘circle of bourgeois nostalgia’ can usefully provide an insight as to how lusotropicalist structures perform. Rather than delude ourselves with the notion of either, finally, killing off lusotropicalism, or, worst still, invoking it in futile attempts at banishing it, this essay simply hopes to provide some grounds for cultural resistance.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PQ Romance literatures | ||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > English and Comparative Literary Studies | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Portuguese literature, Antunes, António Lobo, 1942- -- Criticism and interpretation, Jorge, Lídia, 1946- -- Criticism and interpretation, Portugal -- Colonies, Imperialism in literature, Racism in literature, Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969, Fetishism in literature | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Portuguese Studies Review | ||||||
Publisher: | Baywolf Press | ||||||
ISSN: | 1057-1515 | ||||||
Official Date: | December 2018 | ||||||
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Volume: | 26 | ||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 247-271 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | Originally posted as : de Medeiros, Paulo (2018) Exit ghost : reading Lusotropicalism as fetish (with Adorno). Portuguese Studies Review, 26 (1). pp. 247-271. | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 3 January 2019 |
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