Abstract

FONSECA, Isadora de Ataíde. The mythology of colonial empire in Angola travel writing of twentieth century. Anál. Social [online]. 2020, n.235, pp.274-298. ISSN 0003-2573.  https://doi.org/10.31447/AS00032573.2020235.03.

Travel writing, a classical genre, was a constant feature of the Portuguese-language colonial press during the twentieth century, and propagated the ideology and myths of the Portuguese empire. This study is a socio-historical analysis of imperial ideology through the travel writing. In a post-colonial reading, the Angolan case shows how twentieth-century travel writings updated and popularised imperial mythologies and developed an “orientalist-style” rhetoric that sought to exert and maintain Portuguese power in Africa.

Keywords : Ideology; colonial-empire; travel writing; Angola.

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