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| 6) Ghosh points out though, that a major difference between the Spice Trade and the Oil Industry is the production of literature: "Within a few decades of the discovery of the sea route to India, the Portuguese poet Luis de Camoes, had produced the Lusiads, the epic poem that chronicled Vasco da Gama's voyage and in effect conjured Portugal into literary nationhood. The attempted inclusion of HTM in the "Baroque aesthetic" (33-36), the discussion of the prose narratives as products of a wider cultural entity called "Iberia" (passim), and some generalizing statements on Camoes and the Lusiads (xxvi, 3, 23) are cases in point. In Provincetown, which is a Portuguese fishing community as well as a gay community, a Portuguese-American woman in her eighties read a love poem by the sixteenth-century poet Camoes, translated by her son who stood up with her and read the translation. |
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