Description
Book SynopsisA study of art, architecture and literature produced in Portugal and Cape Verde during the period 1933-1948. Documents artistic responses to images of the Portuguese nation promoted by the Salazar government's Office of State Propaganda. Examines the works of José de Almada Negreiros, Irene Lisboa, and Baltasar Lopes.
Trade Review“I find Professor Sapega’s book informative and persuasive. It begins to fill a long-standing void of research on cultural production in Salazar’s Portugal by presenting some of the discourses on nationalist-imperialist identity disseminated by the regime and analyzing a diverse sample of the artistic and literary responses that they compelled.”
—Ana Paula Ferreira,University of Minnesota
Table of ContentsContents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Staging Memory: “The Most Portuguese Village in Portugal” and the Exposition of the Portuguese World
2. Between Modernity and Tradition: José de Almada Negreiros’s Visual Commentaries on Popular Experience
3. Family Secrets: Irene Lisboa’s Critique of “God, Pátria, and Family”
4. Imperial Dreams and Colonial Nightmares: Baltasar Lopes’s Ambivalent Embrace of Lusotropicalism
Conclusion: Memory and the Collective Imagination Under the Estado Novo and in Its Aftermath
References
Index
