Representations of youth in the colonial press and postcolonial fiction, with Daniela Spina
Daniela Spina proposes considering «colonial youth» as a postcolonial genre, analysing a corpus that brings together various intersections: on the one hand, the colonial press and fiction; on the other, territories that made up the Portuguese Empire (such as Goa and Mozambique) alongside other countries in the Indian Ocean (such as Sri Lanka and Zanzibar). The CHAM researcher focuses on the representation and self-representation of youth between 1930 and 1970. In this episode, she refers, amongst others, to the novels A Geração da Utopia by Pepetela and Os Netos de Norton by Orlando da Costa. The interview is conducted by Maria Clara Leal.
Daniela Spina is a senior researcher at CHAM, where she is working on the project «Narrating the young. A comparative study on representation and self-representation of colonial youth in South Asia and East Africa: from colonial press to postcolonial fiction (1930–1970)» (funded by FCT). She holds a PhD in Comparative Studies and a Master’s degree in Comparative and Postcolonial Literature. Between 2021 and 2023, she was a lecturer at the University of Verona and a member of the exploratory project «PORT ASIA – Writing Asia in Portuguese: mapping literary and intellectual archives in Lisbon and Macao (1820–1955)», carried out at the University of Lisbon. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the International Group for the Study of the Colonial Periodical Press of the Portuguese Empire, of the «Pensando Goa» research group at the University of São Paulo, and of the ORION – Portuguese Orientalism research group at the Centre for Comparative Studies.
In the next episode, Tiago Pires Marques discusses the history of mental health and human rights.
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