João-Manuel Neves
jmneves@tutamail.comProject Legacies of Empire and Colonialism in Comparative Perspective; CITCOM
Ciência ID F315-20E0-9A6C
Joao-Manuel Neves is a Research Fellow in the Center for Comparative Studies of the University of Lisbon and a Research Associate in the CREPAL of the University Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3. He obtained a Ph.D. in Études du Monde Lusophone at the University Sorbonne Paris Cité, with a dissertation on colonial literature from the 1920s related to Mozambique (2016). He has a M.A. from the University Sorbonne Paris 4, with a thesis on the literary work of Luís Bernardo Honwana. Currently he is developing the research project: Our Obsolete Slavocrat Mentality: Imperial Imaginary, Lusotropicalism and the Historical Projection of Coloniality in Portuguese Literature From the Early 1950s to the Present Day. This research project focuses on the questioning of the regimes of institution, in everyday life, of hierarchical categories of symbolic citizenship. These originated in a social imaginary marked by the secular Portuguese slavocrat practices. Major emphasis is placed, at this level, on the textual analysis of discursive representations of both coloniality and contemporary metacoloniality.
Areas of research
Portuguese Literature and Culture from the 19th, 20th and 21st c. related to Empire;
Portuguese Africanist Discourse;
Portuguese Race-thinking;
Literature, History and Culture from the Former Portuguese African Colonies;
Brazilian Studies related to Africa.
Selected publications
Neves, J-M.(Forthcoming 2023), Soi-même comme un sujet impérial. Littérature coloniale des années 1920 : le cas du Mozambique.. Paris: L’Harmattan.
Neves, J-M. (2022).O si-mesmo como sujeito imperial. Literatura colonial dos anos 1920: o caso de Moçambique., Porto: Afrontamento.
Neves, J-M. (2022). "Portuguese Fascism Genocidal Strategy in Mozambique: the Zambezi River South Bank in the Early-Mid 1970s". Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies.
Neves, J-M. (2022). "The Atlantic Slave Trade and the Portuguese-Brazilian Slavocrat Social Formation". In Black migrations in Latin America – Paths on the margins of History, edited by Elaine Rocha. Delaware (OH): Vernon and University of West Indies.
Neves, J-M. (2015). "Frantz Fanon and the Struggle for the Independence of Angola: The Meeting in Rome in 1959”. Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 17 (3: 417-433. Routledge.
