PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Kristina M. Soric
TI  - “O castigo que regenera”
AID  - 10.3368/lbr.57.2.80
DP  - 2021 Jan 01
TA  - Luso-Brazilian Review
PG  - 80--96
VI  - 57
IP  - 2
4099  - http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/57/2/80.short
4100  - http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/57/2/80.full
SO  - Luso-Braz Rev2021 Jan 01; 57
AB  - This article examines Júlio Dinis’s 1867 novel, Uma família inglesa: Cenas da vida do Porto as a commentary on imperial relations between Portugal and its imposing British ally in the nineteenth century, specifically as a response to England’s increasing pressures for the abolition of the Portuguese slave trade. A close reading of the text reveals a commentary in line with mid-century Regenerationist discourses urging for Portugal’s adoption of the basic tenets of British colonialism, including the active suppression of the slave trade, as a means of salvaging Portugal’s international reputation and achieving a place among the economically modern and socially progressive imperial nations. More broadly, Uma família inglesa’s appeals for abolition reflect the imperial worldview of the nineteenth-century Portuguese metropolis by which colonial exploitation and its victims were erased from imperial discourses that focused instead on national sovereignty, international prestige, and economic regeneration.