Professor David Brookshaw

Summary

My main research interests lie in the area of migrant, colonial and postcolonial literary discourses. Within this broad framework, I have a particular interest in themes related to the diasporic condition, such as the expression of exile, ethnicity and hybridity in the literatures of the Portuguese-speaking world, and from a comparative perspective, in other postcolonial literatures. I have published on Brazilian and Lusophone African literatures and more recently on perceptions of China in Portuguese literature. I also have an interest in literary translation, and am co-editor of a new series of translations from the Portuguese, to be published jointly by HiPLA and the National University of Ireland, Maynooth from 2006.

Teaching

Brazilian studies; Portuguese studies; African literature in Portuguese.

Memberships

Organisations

Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies

Organisational groups

• Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies

Research clusters

• Colonial, Postcolonial and Cross-Border Cultural Studies

Selected publications

• Brookshaw, D 2010, ‘Between Southern Portugal and Southern China: the poetry of Fernanda Dias’. Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies, vol 17/18., pp. 183 - 194
• Brookshaw, D 2010, ‘Mia Couto, The Blind Fisherman (translated by David Brookshaw)’. Penguin Books (South Africa)
• Brookshaw, D 2010, ‘'A escrita em Macau: uma literatura de circunstâncias ou as circunstâncias de uma literatura’. in: Ana Paula Laborinho, Marta Pacheco Pinto (eds) Macau na Escrita, Escritas de Macau. Húmus, pp. 19 - 30

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Recent publications

• Brookshaw, D 2012, ‘'Writing from the Margins: Towards an Epistemology of African Brazilian Fiction'’. in: Francisco Bethencourt, Adrian J Pearce (eds) Racism and Etnic Relations in the Portuguese-Speaking World. Oxford University Press, pp. 133 - 147
• Brookshaw, D 2011, ‘'A Cuisine of Nostalgia: the Role of Food in Senna Fernandes's A Trança Feiticeira'’. Review of Culture, vol 38., pp. 21 - 27
• Brookshaw, D 2011, ‘'Politics, Patriarchy, Progress and Postcoloniality: the Life in the Fiction of Henrique de Senna Fernandes'’. Review of Culture, vol 38., pp. 7 - 19
• Brookshaw, D 2011, ‘'Diasporas of diasporas: Brian Castro's Shanghai Dancing'’. in: Francisco Cota Fagundes, Irene Maria Blayer, Teresa Alves, Teresa Cid (eds) Narrating the Portuguese Diaspora. Peter Lang, pp. 77 - 82
• Brookshaw, D 2010, ‘The Portuguese of Malaysia and their Novelist, Rex Shelley’. Macau Daily Times (Weekend Times), 10/7/10, vol 1059., pp. 13 - 15
• Brookshaw, D 2010, ‘The Word Tree, by Teolinda Gersão: a Novel of Colonial Mozambique’. Macau Daily Times (Weekend Times), 10/4/10, vol 983., pp. 12 - 14
• Brookshaw, D 2010, ‘'Jorge Arrimar's Long Journey Back to Angola: The Return of a Native Son'’. Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies, vol 15/16., pp. 151 - 161

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