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Profile
David is responsible for the Portuguese section of the Department of Hispanic, Portuguese & Latin American Studies. His research interests lie in colonial and postcolonial literatures in Portuguese, including Brazil, Portuguese-speaking Africa (notably Angola, Mozambique and Cape Verde). More recently he has become interested in Portuguese literary relations with China in the modern period, more especially those involving Macau. David is also interested in literary translation
Selected Publications
Henrique de Senna Fernandes, The Bewitching Braid (Hong Kong, Hong Kong
University Press/Instituto Cultural da Região Administrativa Especial
de Macau, 2004). Translation with introduction.
‘Revisitando os fantasmas imperiais: Nocturno em Macau de Maria
Ondina Braga’, Fantasmas e Fantasias no Imaginário Português
Contemporâneo , eds. Margarida Calafate Ribeiro & Ana Paula
Ferreira, Porto, Campo das Letras, 2003, p.151-164.
‘Hybridity and the Pleasures of Disinheritance: the Novels of Brian
Castro’, Revista de Cultura (Macau), 8, 4, 2003, p.131-139.
Perceptions of China in Modern Portuguese Literature – Border Gates (Lewiston/Lampeter, The Edwin Mellen Press, 2002).
Visions of China: Stories from Macau (Providence RI/Hong Kong, Gávea-Brown/Hong Kong University Press, 2002).
‘Imperial Diasporas and the Search for Authenticity: the Macanese Fiction of Henrique de Senna Fernandes’, Lusotopie (‘Lusophonies Asiatiques, Asiatiques en Lusophonies’), Paris, 2000, p.271-282.
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