About Lusophone Goa tracing the Portugese language
Is Portuguese a language of Goa’s past, or does it have an unappreciated potential for its future too? That’s one of the issues raised by a new book that tracks lived memories about that language in this region, through the memories of 45 contributors.
Edited and compiled by Aren Noronha, 22, the book dives into the memories and journeys of people who still speak Portuguese in Goa and in its wide-spread diaspora.
The book focuses on “Language, Memory and Postcolonial Inheritance in Goa and the Diaspora”. From the stories of nearly four dozen contributors, descriptions take the reader back to a different Goa of the school and college times of another generation. In the process, it unravels slices of sometimes untold history as experienced by people of that era.
Once the official language of Goa and other enclaves of Portugal in India, Portuguese was rapidly replaced by English in all administrative and education functions, after 1961. This was a language transition that wasn’t smooth or painless.
| ISBN 13: | 9789395795487 |