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Title
Galvćo among the cannibals |
Full text
http://hdl.handle.net/10451/48152 |
Date
2001 |
Author(s)
Pina-Cabral, Joao |
Abstract
Colonial domination was not a simple act of violence. Rather, it was written into the bodies and hearts of the people--'white', 'black', or whatever other combination might be held to exist. Using the samples of the Portuguese African colonies in mid-twentieth century, this paper examines the emotional constitution of colonial power by exploring the uses of the trope 'cannibalism'. In order to do that, recourse is taken to a reading of the non-fictional works of Henrique Galvćo--one of the most active Portuguese intellectuals and Africanist politicians of the period. Subaltern persons were attributed terrible and mysterious tendencies that escaped simple rationality (they were 'zombified'). In this way, a phantasmagoria of subalternity was constituted that, through fear, transformed domination into a structure of emotions. Thus, the repressive attitudes of colonial power were made to appear natural and unavoidable. - info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion |
Subject(s)
Colonialism; Portugal; cannibalism; subaltern; Africa in colonial times |
Language
eng |
Type of publication
article |
Rights
openAccess |
Identifier
Pina-Cabral, Joćo (2001). Galvćo among the cannibals. Identities 8 (4): 483-515. |
Repository
Lissabon - University of Lissabon
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