Digital Translation and Portuguese/English Edition of the Correio de Africa [Africa Mail] Newspaper, 1921-1924

FAIN: RQ-255793-17

University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, MD 20742-5141)
Zita Cristina Nunes (Project Director: December 2016 to present)

Translation and preparation for publication of an open access bilingual edition of Correio de Africa [The Africa Mail], a newspaper published in Portugal from 1921-1924. (36 months)

This project provides access to primary materials through an open access digital bilingual edition of the Correio de Africa, a newspaper published in Lisbon between 1921-1924, supplemented by a full scholarly apparatus. It will make several contributions to humanities scholarship: 1. its comparative and multilingual approach has potential to generate new perspectives on colonialism, imperialism, literary and cultural history, politics, labor, migration, race and racism, linguistics, journalism, photography, advertising, women's activism, and transnationalism; 2. in light of the paper's extensive treatment of these topics, it provides a fuller view of the extent and quality of activism on the part of Africans and people of African descent in Portugal, Africa, and African Diaspora; 3. it offers an important corrective to accounts that date Pan-Africanism in Africa to the post-World War II period or that neglect its relationship to Europe and Asia; 4. it extends recent work on Black Europe.

Associated Products

Digital Bilingual (Portuguese/English) Edition of Correio de Africa [Africa Mail] Newspaper with Scholarly Apparatus (Database/Archive/Digital Edition)
Title: Digital Bilingual (Portuguese/English) Edition of Correio de Africa [Africa Mail] Newspaper with Scholarly Apparatus
Author: Zita Cristina Nunes
Abstract: This project is an open access digital bilingual edition of the Correio de Africa [The Africa Mail], a pan-Africanist newspaper published in Lisbon between 1921-1924, supplemented by a robust scholarly apparatus. Its comparative and multilingual approach generates new perspectives on the interconnectedness of colonialism, imperialism, literary and cultural history, politics, labor, migration, environmentalism, race and racism, linguistics, journalism, photography and advertising, women’s activism, and transnationalism; The digital format presents high-quality scans of the original newspaper pages, enhanced by a tool that hovers over the original Portuguese text to provide the English translation. The inclusion of a scholarly apparatus that is accessible through embedded notes and links is calculated to be unobtrusive, as well as informative and educational at every level of interest and expertise. The interface is adaptable to mobile as well as computer screens.
Year: 2018
Primary URL: https://correio.blackpress.online
Primary URL Description: Introduction to project, links to access newspapers, notes, articles, directions for navigation
Secondary URL: http://https://correio.blackpress.online/collection
Secondary URL Description: Access to Correio and visual demonstration of how the site can expand to accommodate additional newspapers in various languages and alphabets.
Access Model: open access

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