This article looks at the Lisbon-set stories ‘Fidelidade’ by Vimala Devi, ‘Um Encontro Imprevisto’ by Henrique de Senna Fernandes, and ‘Nina’ by Orlanda Amarilis, all of which dramatise a dead-end relationship between a colonised man and a metropolitan woman in the final years of Portuguese colonialism. It analyses how these narratives use the resources of the short story to challenge the colonial discourse of Lusotropicialism, hegemonic in Portugal in the years following the Second World War, and – via the spatial and interpersonal deixis of their ‘intermediate elite’ protagonists – inscribe the experience of colonised subjects on the margins of the imperial capital and reflect on the dynamics of identity affecting their home territories. This article concludes by arguing for a broad comparative practice that can bring a much-needed perspectivism to key issues in postcolonial studies in Portuguese and animate neglected parts of the worldwide Portuguese-language literary archive.

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大都会的心脏：Vimala Devi 的“Fidelidade”、Henrique de Senna Fernandes 的“Um encontro imprevisto”和Orlanda Amarílis 的“Nina”中的城市空间和种族关系

这篇文章着眼于 Vimala Devi 的里斯本故事“Fidelidade”、Henrique de Senna Fernandes 的“Um Encontro Imprevisto”和 Orlanda Amarilis 的“Nina”，所有这些故事都戏剧化了一个被殖民者和一个葡萄牙殖民主义最后几年的都市女性。它分析了这些叙事如何利用短篇小说的资源来挑战二战后葡萄牙在葡萄牙的霸权主义的殖民话语，并通过其“中级精英”主人公的空间和人际指示——铭刻帝国首都边缘被殖民者的经历，并反思影响他们家乡领土的身份动态。