Professor David Brookshaw BA PhD (London)
Contact Details
- Telephone: (0117) 9289747
- Fax: (0117) 331 8010
- Email: d.r.brookshaw@bris.ac.uk
- Room: 2.46 15 Woodland Road
- Research Publications
Teaching
Brazilian studies; Portuguese studies; African literature in Portuguese
Research
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.
Publications
A selection of recent and forthcoming publications (click on the images to view in Amazon):
- Perceptions of China in Modern Portuguese Literature – Border Gates (Lewiston/Lampeter, Edwin Mellen Press, 2002).
- Visions of China: Stories from Macau (Providence RI/Hong Kong, Gávea-Brown & Hong Kong University Press, 2002).
- Henrique de Senna Fernandes, The Bewitching Braid (Hong Kong, HKUP, 2004).
- ‘The Power of the Story in Postcolonial Fiction: the Novels of Brian Castro and Mia Couto’, Revista de Cultura (Instituto Cultural, Macau), 13, January 2005, p.143-149.
- Mia Couto, Sleepwalking Land (London, Serpent’s Tail, 2006).
- José Rodrigues Miguéis, The Polyhedric Mirror: Tales of American Life Providence RI, Gávea-Brown, 2006). Selection, Introduction and Translation by David Brookshaw.
- Onésimo T. Almeida, Tales from the TenthIsland(Bristol/Maynooth, Seagull/Faoileán, 2006). Selection, Introduction and Translation by David Brookshaw.
- ‘Race Relations in Brazil from the Perspective of a “Brazilian” African and an African Brazilian: José Eduardo Agualusa’s O Ano em que Zumbi Tomou o Rio and Francisco Maciel’s O Primeiro Dia do Ano da Peste’, Research in African Literatures (Univ. Indiana, February 2007).