The outstanding, path-breaking poet/translator Landeg White argues
that Goans/Indians should urgently reclaim Camoens from his cultural
imprisonment by the blinkered Portuguese:
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Landeg White writes:
The new Camoens, in rags and in jail, is a figure they (the Portugese)
turn from in embarrassment. It is an image for India to embrace.
Seriously now, Mr. White?
Linken Fernandes
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Camoens de Goa
by Landeg White
The picture used as the cover of my Collected Lyric Poems of Luís de
Camões (Princeton University Press, 2008) was discovered as recently
as 1972. It shows him jailed in Goa,
