Lusophone African Short Stories and Poetry after Independence

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"Lusophone African Short Stories is an important reading for all of those who are interested in the Portuguese colonial Africa and the emergence and evolution of the national literatures of Portugal's former African colonies." -Sandra Sousa, Assistant Professor of Portuguese, University of Central "Enhanced by a detailed introduction and biographical notes, this solid and inclusive anthology fills a mounting research and pedagogic need. The collected material ranges from the late colonial period to contemporaneity, comprising 25 writers from 5 Portuguese-speaking African countries. Notably, most selections are available here in English for the first time." - Luis Madureira, Professor, African Cultural Studies, University of Wisconsin The present volume of Lusophone short stories and poetry in English translation is a welcome addition for diversity and inclusion studies generally, and for Lusophone literary studies specifically. Portuguese colonial societies were structured around white supremacy, patriarchal dominance, and coupled with a general contempt-if not outright dehumanization-of the indigenous peoples, their cultures, and their societies. In fact, the editors provide an interesting rebuttal to renowned Brazilian sociologist Gilberto Freyre's theory of Lusotropicalism, which argued for a more humane racial relational system in the Portuguese colonies- Steven Eric Byrd, University of New England; Hispania Volume 105, Number 4, December 2022, pp. 615-616