Luso-Orientalism(S) - on Imagined Projections and Ruins : Visual Representations of Former 'Portuguese Asia'

This book aims to explore the multiple ways in which Portuguese colonialism in former Portuguese Asia has been imagined. It focuses primarily on how Estado Novo (1933 1974), the longest-running European dictatorship, imagined these territories and peoples. Images played a pivotal role in the exercise of colonial power, propagating established ideas and portraying a colonial reality entirely from a Western perspective. Scarce existing studies rarely acknowledge the need to differentiate between the specificities glossed over by Luso-tropicalist (and Luso-orientalists) discourse. Despite their propagandistic nature and their impact on the socio-cultural memories and narrative identities of the former Portuguese territories in Asia, visual representations of colonialism have largely remained unquestioned. By analysing the impact of such representations in cinema, photography and literature, among other media, the book aims to distinguish between the circumstances of Portuguese India , Macau and Timor while also considering anti-(post)colonial ruptures and persistences.

Part I: Contributions to a Genealogical Analysis of Luso-Orientalist Representations.- Chapter 1: Luso-orientalist Visions of Portuguese Asia : An Imaginary Shrouded in Ruins.- Chapter 2: Goa in Black and White: Souza & Paul s Photographs in Catalogues, Albums, Exhibitions and Archives, In and Out of India.- Chapter 3: Colonial Representations of Macau and the Macanese: Circulation, Knowledge, Identities and Challenges for the Future.- Chapter 4: Photographic Representations of Timor at the Turn of the 19^th Century.- Chapter 5: Macau in the Movies: Portugal in the far east or gambling hell ?.- Chapter 6:

Maria do Carmo Piçarra is vice-coordinator of ICNOVA, an assistant professor at UAL, and a film curator. Her academic interests include (post)colonial filmic representations, film propaganda and censorship, women in decolonisation and militant uses of the image. Her book Easterly Wind: Luso-Orientalism(s) in the Dictatorship's Films is scheduled for publication in 2025.