Review of Lusophone Goa: Tracing the Portuguese Language

[Selma Carvalho]

A review of Aren Noronha's anthology.

Aren curates a fascinating glimpse into the Lusophone world, the lives of its inhabitants exuding a familiar sameness. If anything, the individual experiences cohere on a theme—of upper-class dominance and immersion into a culture which created an opaque, unbreachable barrier between them and the working-class population of Goa. But more importantly, this was a world of learning, of modernity, of western enculturation, and of migration.

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Lusophone Goa: Tracing the Portuguese Language — Joao-Roque Literary Journal est. 2017

Lusophone Goa: Tracing the Portuguese Language — Joao-Roque Literary Jou... Review by Selma Carvalho Imagine the fear that pervaded Goa in the December of 1961. At least one section of Go...

Selma Carvalho

Author of "Sisterhood of Swans" and "Notes on a Marriage" both published by Speaking Tiger, India.

[Arthy Singh]

Really interesting and illuminating...

Thanks for sharing...

Arthy Muthanna Singh,

www.syllables27.in

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[Gargi Guha]

Thank you for this lovely read, Selma. I picked up this book, when I went for Aren's book launch at XCHR. 

I started learning Portuguese at Camões last year and this book has been such a interesting window to those who have kept the language alive here in Goa. 

I particularly liked Isabel de Santa Rita Vás' piece where she talks about letter writing in those days and the addiction for reading...vício de ler, as her mother called it.

A great compilation by Aren and also a piece at the end by Mark Pinto, who is my Portuguese teacher.

Warmly, 

Gargi

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