Imperial Debris: Reflections on the Lisbon Cityscape in Contemporary Portuguese Fiction

Patrícia Martinho Ferreira

doi:10.21471/jls.v5i2.325

Imperial Debris: Reflections on the Lisbon Cityscape in Contemporary Portuguese Fiction

Patrícia Martinho Ferreira University of Massachusetts, Amherst

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21471/jls.v5i2.325

Keywords: Portugal, post-colonial, African Lisbon, Afro-Portguese, Afropean

Abstract

This essay focuses on the literary image of contemporary Lisbon. Through an analysis of the anthology Lisbon Tales and Trails (2017) and Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida’s Luanda, Lisboa, Paraíso (2018), I examine how Lisbon’s representation on a global stage exposes the complexities and ambiguities of a metropolitan area deeply connected to the legacies of empire. Moving through fictional texts from the city center to the suburban periphery, I offer a focused reflection on Lisbon’s postcolonial/post-imperial ethnoscape.

Published

2020-12-19

Issue

Vol 5 No 2 (2020): General Issue

Section

Articles

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