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    Camoes, Portuguese war propaganda, and the dream of a safe colonial empire, 1914-1918


    Ribeiro De Meneses, Filipe (2005) Camoes, Portuguese war propaganda, and the dream of a safe colonial empire, 1914-1918. NUI Maynooth Papers in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, 12. pp. 1-27.

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    Abstract

    Twentienth-century Portugal's view of itself and its global role was largely determined by the way in which Luis de Camoes was celebrated in Portugal in 1880, the third centenary of his death. This much is made clear by Alan Freeland in his article "The people and the poet: Portuguese national identity and the Camoes Tercentenary'. Those celebrations, largely ignored by the Crown, did much to propel Portuguese republicanism into the twentieth century as a nationalist and colonialist doctrine, committed to the restoration of a Portuguese golden era sung in the cantos of Camoes epic poem, The Lusiads.
    Item Type: Article
    Keywords: Camoes; Colonial Empire; Portuguese war propaganda;
    Academic Unit: Faculty of Arts,Celtic Studies and Philosophy > School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures > Spanish
    Item ID: 818
    Depositing User: Helen O'Connor
    Date Deposited: 03 Dec 2007
    Journal or Publication Title: NUI Maynooth Papers in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies
    Publisher: NUI Maynooth Papers in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies
    Refereed: Yes
    URI: https://mu.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/818
    Use Licence: This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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