PLCS 25 (2013)
Lusofonia and Its Futures

Lusofonia and Eternal Empire: Notes from the Sixteenth Century

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  • Vincent Barletta
DOI: https://doi.org/10.62791/3051ys82

Published 2016-09-20

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Abstract

ABSTRACT: Framed as love and commonality, as a shared patrimony, as the eternal spirit of empire, or as a “sad and ridiculous” attempt to exert influence long after the fact, the workings of Lusofonia may or may not have evolved over the past five centuries. What seems clear, however, is that the Portuguese language has been understood since at least the sixteenth century as not only the “companion” or tool of Portugal’s empire, but rather as its most enduring and ontologically real aspect.

KEYWORDS: Lusofonia and empire, neo-colonialism, Renaissance, grammar

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