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Visitando obras historiográficas do Império Lusitano na Oceania: Um recorte da história de Timor-Leste
Visiting historiographical works of the Lusitanian Empire in Oceania: A fragment of the history of Timor-Leste
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Abstract The article tries to relate Portuguese historiographical literature of the colonial period of East Timor as the source of arguments for a postcolonial fictional literature through two works of great importance for the understanding of the period. The narratives of the works As possessões Portuguesas... view more
The article tries to relate Portuguese historiographical literature of the colonial period of East Timor as the source of arguments for a postcolonial fictional literature through two works of great importance for the understanding of the period. The narratives of the works As possessões Portuguesas na Oceania of Afonso de Castro of 1867 and Ocupação e Colonização Branca de Timor of Teófilo Duarte of 1940, both former Portuguese governors of Timor-Leste, are abundant and present facts of great literary beauty, that as facts historical, tell the saga of the Timorese people. With this direction, the article traces the process of colonization in the trail of the Great Navigations that initiated the globalization and the cultural domination to culminate in the official historiography of Timor and the literary arguments that can be harvested from it. The work is part of the doctoral research of one of its authors and as a methodology, the bibliographic research was carried out to historical documents present in the Postgraduate Library of the National University of Timor Lorosa'e.... view less
Classification
History
Free Keywords
Historiography; Timor-Leste; Literary Argument; Postcolonial
Document language
Portuguese
Publication Year
2020
Page/Pages
p. 214-229
Journal
Revista Maracanan (2020) 25
ISSN
2359-0092
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0