“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."

- Anjali Arondekar, University of California, Santa Cruz

"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."

- Paul Melo e Castro, University of Glasgow

“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.” 

- Gaurav Desai, University of Michigan

“Across Continents is an important contribution to our contemporary scholarship about Goa and Goans, with many significant insights and propositions that are worth debating.”

- O Heraldo

“There is a question that sits at the centre of Goan diaporic experience, one that rarely gets asked in the right language. It is not simply where Goans went, but what happened to their sense of self when the colonial systems that propelled their movement could not agree on what they were. . . . [Across Continents] is the first monograph to take this question and press it systematically against the fiction that has attempted, with varying degrees of success, to represent it.”

- Oriana Fernandez, The Global Goan