ABSTRACT
The overlapping of the concepts of homeland and empire, much encouraged by the Estado-Novo, still influences the debates on colonial history, and for a long time reduced the critical potential of politics and literary life in the Lusitanian metropolis. Drawn the contradictions of colonialism obsessed with the idea of singularity, only after the radicalization of relations in the colonies, the Portuguese society formulated responses that came to give density to the anti-colonial critique, initiated in the invaded territories, in which writers combined aesthetic renewal and libertarian ethics.
Keywords:
Homeland/empire; Colonialism; Literary life; History/memory; anticolonial criticism