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'''Maria Elsa da Rocha''' (1924–2007) was an Indian [[short-story writer]] and poet in the Portuguese language.<br />
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==Life==<br />
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Maria Elsa da Rocha was a school teacher by profession, which took her all over [[Goa]] (and [[Damão]]). The experiences she accrued would feed into her stories, which were also often based on hearsay and anecdotes.{{fact|date=April 2023}}<br />
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==Works==<br />
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Throughout the 1960s, Rocha contributed short stories to the [[Margão]]-based Portuguese language newspaper ''A Vida'', in which she co-edited a cultural page together, and the Portuguese-language programme 'Renascença' broadcast on All-India Radio.{{fact|date=April 2023}}<br />
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In 2005 a collection of her short stories appeared under the title ''Vivências Partilhadas'' [Shared Lives].<ref>Panjim, Goa: Third Millennium, 2006.</ref><br />
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===Vivências Partilhadas===<br />
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''Vivências Partilhadas'' provides widest range of representations of the Goan subaltern in Portuguese-language Goan literature post-1961, with a particular focus on the experiences of women,<ref>Paul Melo e Castro, 'How the Other Half Live: The Goan Subaltern in the Stories of Vimala Devi, Maria Elsa da Rocha and Epitácio Pais', in ''Portuguese Language and Literature in Goa: Past, Present and Future'', Carmo D'Souza (ed.), Margão, India: CinnamonTeal, 2014, pp.26-32.</ref> though this deep-seated sympathy at times appears to be at cross-purposes with a certain [[social conservatism]].<ref>Hélder Garmes and Paul Melo e Castro 'Lirismo e Conservadorismo na Arena Política: o conto "Shivá, brincando..." da escritora goesa Maria Elsa da Rocha'. ''Revista Abril'', 4.6 (2011), pp.77-87</ref> Rocha's writing is notable for the use she makes of particularly Goan-inflected Portuguese and the considerable use of Konkani in her dialogues.<br />
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== References==<br />
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4. Cielo G. Festino "Sharing Lives in Maria Elsa Da Rocha´s Vivências Partilhadas" In Muse India. Goan Literature in Portuguese. Issue 70. Nov-Dec, 2016.<br />
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==Bibliography==<br />
Maria Elsa da Rocha. ''Vivências Partilhadas''. Panjim, India: Third Millennium, 2005.<br />
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Maria Elsa da Rocha. ''Shared Lives: The Collected Stories of Maria Elsa da Rocha'', trans. Paul Melo e Castro. Saligão, India: Goa 1556, 2023.<br />
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[[Category:Portuguese-language writers]]<br />
[[Category:Indian women short story writers]]<br />
[[Category:1924 births]]<br />
[[Category:2007 deaths]]<br />
[[Category:People from Margao]]<br />
[[Category:Writers from South Goa district]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century Indian short story writers]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century Indian poets]]<br />
[[Category:Women writers from Goa]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century Indian women poets]]</div>Mazzulah Peel