The Portuguese in the Creole Indian Ocean : essays in historical cosmopolitanism / Fernando Rosa.

By:

Rosa,Fernando

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Palgrave series in Indian Ocean world studiesPublication details: India: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.Description: 224 pISBN:

9781137563668

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

305.80 ROS

Contents:

1. Introduction -- 2. Revisiting the Creole Port City -- 3. The Malabar Coast (Kerala) and Cosmopolitanism -- 4. Revisiting Creoles and Other Languages in the Lusophone Indian Ocean -- 5. (Dis) Connections in Macau and Melaka : Constructing a Lusophone Indian Ocean -- 6. The Muslim and Portuguese Indian Ocean : A Reappraisal of Cosmopolitanism in the Early Modern Era -- 7. Conclusion.

Scope and content: "This monograph is an exploration of the historical legacy of the Portuguese in the Indian Ocean, in particular in Goa, Macau, Melaka, and Malabar. Instead of fixing the gaze on either the colonial or the indigenous, it attempts to scrutinise a Creole space that is rooted in Indian Ocean cosmopolitanism"--Scope and content: "When the Portuguese first entered the Indian Ocean centuries ago, they intruded upon an ancient Creole and cosmopolitan world. Also, they entered a world with age-old connections to the Mediterranean. This book explores some of the intriguing interstices of colonial and other spaces in the ocean, through a scrutiny of personages, texts, and authors between the sixteenth and twenty-first centuries, in a variety of locales, namely, Goa (India), Macau (China), Malabar (Kerala, India), and Melaka (Malaysia). As the narrative goes back and forth between the ethnographic present and the past, it unearths the traces of old connected histories, such as those that link South and Southeast Asia. Furthermore, it explores similarities and differences with the Atlantic, especially in what concerns creolization and cosmopolitanism. It is an attempt by a Brazilian scholar to apply perspectives developed in the Atlantic--in particular, creolization--to Indian Ocean spaces and themes"--

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-214) and index.

"This monograph is an exploration of the historical legacy of the Portuguese in the Indian Ocean, in particular in Goa, Macau, Melaka, and Malabar. Instead of fixing the gaze on either the colonial or the indigenous, it attempts to scrutinise a Creole space that is rooted in Indian Ocean cosmopolitanism"--

"When the Portuguese first entered the Indian Ocean centuries ago, they intruded upon an ancient Creole and cosmopolitan world. Also, they entered a world with age-old connections to the Mediterranean. This book explores some of the intriguing interstices of colonial and other spaces in the ocean, through a scrutiny of personages, texts, and authors between the sixteenth and twenty-first centuries, in a variety of locales, namely, Goa (India), Macau (China), Malabar (Kerala, India), and Melaka (Malaysia). As the narrative goes back and forth between the ethnographic present and the past, it unearths the traces of old connected histories, such as those that link South and Southeast Asia. Furthermore, it explores similarities and differences with the Atlantic, especially in what concerns creolization and cosmopolitanism. It is an attempt by a Brazilian scholar to apply perspectives developed in the Atlantic--in particular, creolization--to Indian Ocean spaces and themes"--

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