Narrating the Postcolonial Nation
Mapping Angola and Mozambique
Published on 18. August 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
291 pages
978-3-0343-0891-5 (ISBN)
Description
The essays collected in this volume look at the way that Mozambican and Angolan literary works seek to narrate, re-create and make sense of the postcolonial nation. Some of the studies focus on individual works; others are comparative analyses of Angolan and Mozambican works, with a focus on the way they enter into dialogue with each other. The volume is oriented by three broad themes: the role of history; the recurring image of the voyage; and discursive/narrative strategies. The final section of the book considers the postcolonial in a broader Lusophone and international context.
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Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Peter Lang Group AG, International Academic Publishers
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 21 cm
Width: 14.8 cm
Weight
440 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-0343-0891-5 (9783034308915)
DOI
10.3726/978-3-0353-0631-6
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Ana Mafalda Leite is professor of African literature at the University of Lisbon. Her areas of research include Mozambican literature, African cultures and literatures in the Portuguese language, oral literature and postcolonial studies. Her recent publications include Oralidades & Escritas Pós-Coloniais (2012).
Hilary Owen is professor of Portuguese and African studies at the University of Manchester. Her publications include Mother Africa, Father Marx: Women's Writings in Mozambique (2007) and Antigone's Daughters? Gender, Genealogy, and the Politics of Authorship in Twentieth-Century Portuguese Women's Writing (with Cláudia Pazos-Alonso, 2011).
Rita Chaves is professor in African literature at the University of São Paulo. She is on the editorial board of Revista de Letras and Via Atlântica. Among her recent publications are Mia Couto: O desejo de contar e de inventar (with Fernanda Cavacas and Tânia Macedo, 2010) and Portanto . Pepetela (with Tânia Macedo, 2009).
Livia Apa is studying towards a doctorate in African literature at the University of Lisbon. She has translated into Italian works by Mia Couto, Ruy Duarte de Carvalho, Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos and Ana Luísa Amaral and has recently published Abitare la lingua: Riflessioni sulla lingua portoghese in Angola (2010).
Content
Contents: Iain Chambers: Power, language and the poetics of the postcolonial - Gilberto Matusse: The Narrative of the Nation in Craveirinha - Carmen Tindo Secco: The Other Feet of History: A Reading of Choriro by Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa and O Outro Pe da Sereia by Mia Couto - Ana Mafalda Leite: Rewriting the Thresholds of History in Order to Re-Think the Nation - Inocencia Mata: The Memory of Colonization and the Sentence of the Future in the Figuration of the Nation - Sheila Khan: Utopias and Aporias: The Calibre of a Nation's Dreams - Laura Cavalcante Padilha: Novels as Travel Diaries: The Case of Angola - Rita Chaves: Ruy Duarte de Carvalho's Desmedida: The Voyage as Synthesis and Invention - Kamila Krakowska: The Voyages of the Post-Colonial Nations in Estacao das Chuvas and Terra Sonambula - Giulia Spinuzza: The Reconfiguration of the Nation in Eduardo White's Janela para Oriente - Hilary Owen: Women on the Edge of a Nervous Empire in Paulina Chiziane and Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa - Nazir Ahmed Can: A House of Marked Cards: The Public Discourse of the Political Elite in the Novels of Joao Paulo Borges Coelho - Tania Macedo: Reflection and Aesthetic Development in the Work of Manuel Rui - Livia Apa: Nation and Narration: What does African Cinema Tell Us? - Jessica Falconi: Some Thoughts around the Idea of the invention of the Lusofonia Narratives.