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Goa is a former colony of the long-lasting Portuguese Empire, annexed by India in 1961. After about 450 years of colonial rule, the application of the national model can already be detected in the very first attempts of writing its literary history. Although Goa has never had the political form of a nation, nor is its Portuguese literature actually a concrete literary system, the attempts of writing literary history were and still are presented in such a way that they idealize IndoPortuguese literature as a national literary system. Even if Indo-Portuguese literature was never considered as national literature, this doesn’t mean that its actors and readers never felt a sense of belonging to their land or didn’t embrace any sort of cultural identity. On the contrary, it can be argued that Indo-Portuguese literature was the written expression of a small Catholic community among other diverse communities such as the Hindu and the Muslim ones. This community, who was speaking and writing in Portuguese despite being a minority, represented the most privileged castes of the Goan society during the years of Portuguese rule. Therefore, this Catholic community had to reimagine itself as a nation able to write its own literary history and, in some cases, to stand against the colonial power. By means of a review of Indo-Portuguese literary historiography, the purpose of this article is to analyse this corpus for what Linda Hutcheon states about the persisting attraction of the national model in literary history. In particular, I am interested in ascertaining the many shapes in which the national element appears in the historiography of this literature and how these shapes have changed over time. In this paper, Indo-Portuguese literary historiography is considered as the object of study and not just a one-time reference. This means that the texts selected are treated as active and autonomous sources, with their own epistemological value. Finally, some of the literary histories that I study are not just books, compendiums or dictionaries of literature. The corpus also comprises newspaper articles and essays published in literary and cultural reviews. This choice of incorporating in the corpus of the analysis not just literary history books is due to the very peculiarity of Indo-Portuguese literature and to the long periods of censorship in

WRITING NATIONAL HISTORY WITHOUT A NATION: THE CASE OF INDO-PORTUGUESE LITERARY HISTORY