Speaking the Postcolonial Nation (Interviews with writers from Angola and Mozambique) and Narrating the Postcolonial Nation (Mapping Angola and Mozambique)

Organização da investigadora integrada do CICS, Sheila Khan, dos livros Speaking the Postcolonial Nation (Interviews with writers from Angola and Mozambique) and Narrating the Postcolonial Nation (Mapping Angola and Mozambique)
“This volume brings together interviews on the topic of the postcolonial nation and its narrations with prominent writers from Angola and Mozambique. The interviewees offer personal insights into the history of post-independence Angola and Mozambique and into the role of the intellectual elite in the complex processes of deconstructing colonial heritage and (re)constructing national identity in a multinational or multiethnic state. Their testimonies provide a parallel narrative that complements the many fictional narrators found in Angolan and Mozambican novels, short stories and poems. The authors interviewed in the book are Luandino Vieira, Ana Paula Tavares, Boaventura Cardoso, José Eduardo Agualusa, Ondjaki and Pepetela from Angola; and João Paulo Borges Coelho, Marcelo Panguana, Mia Couto, Paulina Chiziane, Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa and Luís Carlos Patraquim from Mozambique.” (Leite, M.; Khan, S.; Falconi, J. and Krakowska, K., 2014)

“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..”(Leite, M.; Owen, H.; Chaves, R. and Apa, L., 2014)
Sheila Khan is a researcher at the Centre for Research in Social Sciences at the University of Minho. Her publications include The Lusotropical Tempest: Postcolonial Debates in Portuguese (2012) and Imigrantes Africanos Moçambicanos: Narrativa de Imigração e de Identidade e Estratégias de Aculturação em Portugal e na Inglaterra (2009).

Ficha Técnica de Speaking the Postcolonial Nation
Páginas: 271
Editor: Peter Lang
ISBN: 978-3-0343-0890-8

Ficha Técnica de Narrating the Postcolonial Nation:
Páginas: 291
Editor: Peter Lang
ISBN: 978-3034308915

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