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Details for Professor David Brookshaw
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| Name | Professor David Brookshaw | ||||
| Job title | Emeritus Professor |
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| Department | Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies University of Bristol |
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| Qualifications | B.A., Ph.D.(Lond.) | ||||
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| Membership of professional bodies | Association of British and Irish Lusitanists American Portuguese Studies Association Associação Internacional de Lusitanistas |
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| Keywords | literary discourses diasporic condition Literatures in Portuguese Lusophone African literatures literary translation postcolonial literary discourses |
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| Areas of expertise | 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. In terms of geopolitical and cultural areas, my research has embraced Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, and Macau. 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 (I am the translator of the Mozambican writer, Mia Couto), and am co-editor of a new series of translations from the Portuguese published jointly by HiPLA and the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. I am also the general editor of HiPLA's Lusophone Studies. |
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| Media experience | Participated in programmes of the BBC World Service. Interview on BBC Radio Bristol. Interviews on radio, TV and press in Portugal, Brazil, Macau, and community media in the USA. |
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