Narrating the postcolonial nation : mapping Angola and Mozambique /

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...

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Další autoři: Leite, Ana Mafalda, 1956- (Editor), Owen, Hilary, 1961- (Editor), Chaves, Rita (Editor), Apa, Livia, 1963- (Editor)
Typ dokumentu: Kniha
Jazyk:Angličtina
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Vydáno: Oxford : Peter Lang, [2014]
Edice:Reconfiguring identities in the Portuguese-speaking world, vol. 2
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Obsah:
  • Introduction / Ana Mafalda Leite
  • Power, Language and the Poetics of the Postcolonial / Iain Chambers
  • The Narrative of the Nation in Craveirinha / Gilberto Matusse
  • The Other Feet of History: A Reading of Choriro by Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa and O Outro Pé da Sereia by Mia Couto / Carmen Lucia Tindó Secco
  • Rewriting the Thresholds of History in Order to Re-Think the Nation / Ana Mafalda Leite
  • The Memory of Colonization and the Sentence of the Future in the Figuration of the Nation / Inocência Mata
  • Utopias and Aporias: The Measure of a Nation's Dreams / Sheila Khan
  • Novels as Travel Diaries: The Case of Angola / Laura Cavalcante Padilha
  • Ruy Duarte de Carvalho's Desmedida: The Voyage as Synthesis and Invention / Rita Chaves
  • The Voyages of the Postcolonial Nations in Estação das Chuvas and Terra Sonâmbula / Kamila Krakowska
  • The Reconfiguration of the Nation in Eduardo White's Janela para Oriente / Giulia Spinuzza
  • Women on the Edge of a Nervous Empire in Paulina Chiziane and Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa / Hilary Owen
  • A House of Marked Cards: The Public Discourse of the Political Elite in the Novels of João Paulo Borges Coelho / Nazir Ahmed Can
  • Reflection and Aesthetic Development in the Work of Manuel Rui / Tânia Macedo
  • Nation and Narration: What Does African Cinema Tell Us? / Livia Apa
  • Some Thoughts around the Invention of the Lusofonia Narratives / Jessica Falconi