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Hyperidentity and Orientalism: The Case of the Sieges of Diu in Portuguese Texts

“…A new school will come to support the conquests of reason with the elevation of sentiment, because nature always triumphs in the end, and when there is no more danger of falling into the excesses of idolatries, nor of losing ourselves in the infinite wastelands of abstract cogitations, the time of the great conquests of humanity will come. 68 The Orient idealized by a 19 th century author for a 16 th century episode can be read as a 'compensatory myth', in Lourenço's terms. We cannot ignore the geopolitical reality of Ribeiro's time: the British Empire had already established itself definitively.…”