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Book SynopsisThe 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.
Table of ContentsContents: Iain Chambers: Power, language and the poetics of the postcolonial – Gilberto Matusse: The Narrative of the Nation in Craveirinha – Carmen Tindó Secco: The Other Feet of History: A Reading of
Choriro by Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa and
O Outro Pé da Sereia by Mia Couto – Ana Mafalda Leite: Rewriting the Thresholds of History in Order to Re-Think the Nation – Inocência 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
Estação das Chuvas and
Terra Sonâmbula – 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 João 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.
