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'''Francisco João da Costa''' (28 December 1859 – 1900),<ref>{{Cite web |last=Carvalho |first=Selma |date=28 August 2019 |title=GIP and the Piano: The Life and Times of Francisco Joao da Costa |url=https://www.joaoroqueliteraryjournal.com/nonfiction-1/2019/8/23/gip-and-the-piano-the-life-and-times-of-francisco-joao-da-costa?format=amp-of-francisco-joao-da-costa?amp_gsa=1&amp_js_v=a9&format=amp&usqp=mq331AQIUAKwASCAAgM%3D#amp_ct=1737359220107&amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=17373592184601&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.joaoroqueliteraryjournal.com%2Fnonfiction-1%2F2019%2F8%2F23%2Fgip-and-the-piano-the-life-and-times-of-francisco-joao-da-costa |access-date=20 January 2025 |website=joaoroqueliteraryjournal.com}}</ref> also known by his [[pen name]] '''Gip''' (stylized in [[all caps]]), was a Portuguese journalist and a major figure in [[Goan]] journalism of the nineteenth century.<br />
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==Early life==<br />
Costa was born into a powerful dynasty, with both [[Catholic]] and [[Brahmin]] roots, which had supported [[Regeneration (Portugal)|Portugal's Regeneration]] and also supported the extension of constitutional and democratic rights to [[Portuguese India]]. Costa studied law, and developed a profile as a journalist and short-story writer alongside his legal career. Costa's uncle [[Bernardo Francisco da Costa]] owned the weekly journal ''O Ultramar'', associated with the [[Partido Ultramarino]] and Goa's [[Roman Catholic Brahmin|Brahmin caste]].<ref>Paul Melo e Castro (trans.), ''Lengthening Shadows'', 2 vols (Saligão: Goa, 1556, 2016), I pp. 13-14.</ref><br />
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==Career==<br />
Costa began writing for ''O Ultramar'' in 1882, most famously contributing the novel ''Jacob e Dulce'' ('Jacob and Dulce') in serial form between 10 November 1894 and 1 June 1895, prior to publishing the work as a book in 1896. It is set in a thinly disguised version of Costa's home town, [[Margão]], and focuses its satire on the [[Catholic]] bourgeoisie of the [[Velhas Conquistas]] of [[Portuguese Goa]]. 'Rather than a novel, ''Jacob e Dulce'' is perhaps best read as a series of sketches pushed forward narratively by the machinations surrounding an arranged marriage' between its eponymous protagonists. Influenced by the writing of the Portuguese satiric realist [[Eça de Queiroz]], ''Jacob e Dulce'' is noted for moving [[Goan]] writing beyond [[romanticism]] towards [[social realism]], developing social sature, and capturing a colloquial and local tone in the Portuguese dialogue.<ref>Paul Melo e Castro (trans.), ''Lengthening Shadows'', 2 vols (Saligão: Goa, 1556, 2016), I pp. 14-15, 17-18 (quoting p. 14).</ref> It has run to several editions.<ref>Gip, ''Jacob e Dulce: scenas da vida indiana'' (Margão: Typographia do Ultramar, 1896); Francisco João da Costa, ''Jacob e Dulce: scenas da vida Indiana'', 2nd edn pref. by Visconde de Tauney (Nova Goa: Casa Luso-Francesa, 1907); Francisco João da Costa, ''Jacob e Dulce'', 3rd edn pref. by Jeremias Xavier de Carvalho (Goa: Tipografia Sadananda, 1974).</ref><br />
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It appears that the opprobrium which Costa's satires provoked led him to cease fiction-writing after ''Dulce e Dulce''.<ref>Paul Melo e Castro (trans.), ''Lengthening Shadows'', 2 vols (Saligão: Goa, 1556, 2016), I p. 21.</ref><br />
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==Translations==<br />
*Francisco João da Costa, ''Jacob & Dulce (sketches from Indo-Portuguese life)'', trans. by Álvaro Noronha da Costa (New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 2004)<br />
*GIP, 'Jacob and Carapinho', in ''Lengthening Shadows'', trans. by Paul Melo e Castro, 2 vols (Saligão: Goa, 1556, 2016), I pp.&nbsp;83–86.<br />
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