"A former Portuguese colony where Portuguese is now little spoken, a tiny enclave in India that frustrates easy insertion into dominant nationalist timelines and narratives, Goa and its literary archive have often been ignored in debates on literature. Ferrão’s work astutely reframes this anomalous experience as a worldly strength enabling a central contribution to world literary debates that transcend the narrow bounds of the national, providing us with a groundbreaking work that will interest a broad and diverse audience in post- and decolonial studies and migration literature, across languages, cultures, and, indeed, continents."

“Across Continents deftly and ambitiously brings together postcolonial literatures, historical analysis, and feminist critique to engage a wide-ranging archive of postcolonial subject-formation. From travelogues to novels, from art objects to cultural performance, Ferrão provides a critical colonial and postcolonial genealogy for understanding the variegated histories of the postcolony within the Luso/African framework."

“When the liberated, once-colonized nation (here India) becomes the de facto symbol of postcolonial identity, what is to be made of those subjects and regions (here Goans and Goa) whose histories and identities refuse to cohere with such hegemonic self-conception? This is the question that animates the literary readings offered here of texts that narrate the Lusopheric, transoceanic, and transcontinental displacements of a people who have historically defied being reduced to a nation. A provocation that is sure to unsettle the terrain of postcolonial studies.”