Moisés de Lemos Martins and Francisco Azevedo Mendes will present the book “Da ‘Portugalidade’ à lusofonia”

On February 8, at 9:30 p.m., in the auditorium of the Municipal Library of Penafiel, Moisés de Lemos Martins and Francisco Azevedo Mendes present Vítor de Sousa’s book Da ‘Portugalidade’ à lusofonia.

According to the author of the CECS publication, “this research intends to understand how ‘portugalidade’ punctuates the construction of lusophony. The concept ‘portugalidade’ stems from Estado Novo [New State] regime logic so that the ex-colonies could be seen by the UN not as autonomous territories, but as an integral part of Portuguese territory, as overseas provinces, which began to be corroborated, since 1951, by the parliamentary discourse of the National Assembly, following the repeal of the Colonial Act”.

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[Posted: 21-01-2019]