The Descendente Elite of Goa: The Role of Literature in the Construction and Dismantling of Stereotypes

• Main Author: de Oliviera, Luís Pedroso de Lima Cabral
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: “Elites descendentes; eighteenth to twentieth-century Goa; literature and colonial society; Vimala Devi; Luís da Providência”
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss38/26; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/kk/article/1929/viewcontent/KK_2038_2C_202022_2026_20Forum_20Kritika_20on_20Goa_20Before_20India_20Late_Colonial_20Goan_20Society_20and_20Culture_20__20de_20Lima_20and_20de_20Oliveira.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Was Vimala Devi yet another author since at least the seventeenth century to have followed in the footsteps of Portuguese writers—Bocage, Tomás Ribeiro, the Kopkes, Camilo Castelo Branco, Eça de Queiroz, Vitorino Nemésio and Manuel de Seabra—in painting a stereotyped and rather grotesque image of th...