Portuguese culture has had in the imperial and colonial imaginary not less separated from his training as a system. The 'colonial' and 'imperial' are not subsidiaries or eccentric notions of what was meaning "being modern in Portugal ',' Empire 'and' colony 'nests in its center of gravity.
The argument behind this book falls on the need to take account of the invention of the colonial empire as a touchstone of the imagination of the 'Portuguese' community, its sociability, its symbolic discourses.
Thus, interpreting the 'Portuguese' culture in its modern evolution, understood as deposit carries images and forms where both the presentation of the rule is negotiated as the supposed reality becomes entangled in the issue of representation.
Pedro Serra is Associate Professor at the University of Salamanca, where he teaches Portuguese and Brazilian literature. His research areas integrate literature and film studies and literary theory.