General Series Editor's Preface Acknowledgements List of Illustrations List of Figures List of Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction Stefan HalikowskiSmith Part 1 Approaches to Historical Sociolinguistics 1 Portuguese in the World and Its Standardisation: between the Reality of a Pluricentric Language and the Desire for an International Language Augusto SoaresdaSilva 2 The Portuguese of Brazil IS Multiple: A Sociolinguistic Approach Silvia FigueiredoBrandão and Silvia Rodrigues Vieira 3 National Language and African Voices in Nineteenth-Century Brazil Ivana StolzeLima 4 Multilingualism and the Sri Lanka Portuguese Dialect of an Afro-Diasporic Community Shihan deSilvaJayasuriya Part2 Approaches to Social Anthropology 5 The Portuguese Village in Jakarta: Kinship, Residence and Naming Raan-Hann Tan 6 Portuguese Culinary Legacy in Asia: An Exploration of Macanese Cuisine Annabel Jackson 7 São Tomé's Popular Theatre Tchiloli : The Persistence of Unproven Claims of Its Sixteenth-Century Introduction Gerhard Seibert Part3 Approaches to History 8 Creolization and Diaspora in the Portuguese Indies: The Social World of Ayutthaya, 1640-1720 Stefan HalikowskiSmith 9 Upholding the Constitution and the Saintly Catholic Religion, Loving the Fatherland and the Emperor Popular Liberalism in the Balaiada rebellion in the Brazilian province of Maranhão Matthias RöhrigAssunção 10 Seventeenth Century 'Culture Wars': António Gomes' SJDescription of the East African Mission Malyn Newitt 11 Concubines, Companions, and Convicts: Women in Exile in the Portuguese Empire, 1500-1800 Selina PatelNascimento Part4 Approaches to Literature 12 Palimpsests of Portugueseness: Lusophone Residues in Postcolonial Literature in English David Brookshaw 13 Revolutionary Languages in Angolan Boyhood Narratives: Literary Filiations from Luandino Vieira to Ondjaki Dorothée Boulanger and Andrzej Stuart-Thompson 14 From Goa in Portuguese to the Anglophone World: The Case of 'The Rats' by Epitácio Pais' as World Literature' Paul Castro 15 Epilogue Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya Index.