The objective of the study is to analyze the novel A stranger in Goa (2000), by José Eduardo Agualusa, the issue of minority permanence Lusophone matrix, after the annexation of Goa (1961), in a Hindu society, as well as relations with colonialism and identity, between the self and the other in a multicultural space and its representation system. They will be studied from the writer - traveler conceptions (PAGEAUX) and hybrid concepts of culture (BHABHA), postcolonial identity (MATA) and fragmented identity (GARMES).

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Addressing the debate concerning the death of the postcolonial, this article aims at considering the blind spots and the potentiality of the postcolonial as a critical gesture able to renovate the meanings of contemporary literary representations underlining, its enduring and inevitable crises, theoretically situated within the conceptual framework of remains and turns.

The present paper tries to evaluate the process of maturity of the so-called postcolonial studies, presenting as a reflection that the postcolonial has been sent to a more theoretical and more reflective work on the world, instead of jumping its intellectual walls and feel the pulsar of the diversity and mutation of the human world. As an alternative we suggest a joint contribution from a more active and interventive approach of post-memory as civic responsibility.

The following article focuses on the Portuguese publisher, Vitor Silva Tavares, who held the decision of translating and publishing Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth in the context of the fascist regime Estado Novo, four years after the beginning of the Portuguese Colonial War. Silva Tavares was interviewed for this paper about his motives for the publication of this work. Through his opinions and his publishing rationale, it is possible to see his strong commitment to the fight against the Portuguese fascist regime and the liberation of the African territories.

I draw first on Vivek Chibber s argument that postcolonial studies fails to provide an adequate basis for a theory of human rights and a practice of global solidarity. I then introduce the Warwick Research Collective s elaboration of a new theory of world literature constructed around the concept of combined and uneven development. I conclude by proposing a way out of the limitations of postcolonial studies.

The text points out the main questions and theoretical contributions in the field of investigation of post-colonial studies, concerning the analysis of realities and cultural artifacts from the perspective of their imbrication with the relations of power, evidencing some possible implications to the critical potential of these studies, caused by certain epistemic connections. The article discusses, finally, the proposal for the construction of new paradigms of social emancipation, elaborated by Boaventura de Sousa Santos.

This article aims to reflect on how the West has been creating and relating historically to the Other, stressing the importance of difference and representation, key concepts in postcolonial theory. Based on the observation that the media is one of the most relevant contemporary fields for the analysis of intercultural exchanges, the text discusses how the hegemonic discourses of the past were updated and adapted, but also how alternative emancipatory practices and effective dialogues can be materialized.