Ana Mafalda Leite is Associate Professor of African Literature at the University of Lisbon and an associate researcher at the Centre for African and Development Studies at the same university.Elena Brugioni is Associate Professor in Comparative Literature (African literatures and Postcolonial theory) at the Department of Literary Theory of the University of Campinas UNICAMP, and Lecturer at the Graduate Program in Literary Theory and History at Unicamp.Jessica Falconi is a researcher at the Centre for African and Development Studies of the University of Lisbon and a member of Globalization and Development research group.Marta Banasiak is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Literary Theory of the University of Campinas UNICAMP and collaborating researcher at the Centre for African and Development Studies of the University of Lisbon.

• Contents: Marta Banasiak: Lusotopic navigations across the Indian Ocean – Joana Pereira Leite and Ana Mafalda Leite: The narratives of history and the uncovering of the Indian Ocean – Manuel Lobato: Travel literature and the colonial matrix on the Indian Ocean periphery: From Mozambique to Timor – Jessica Falconi and Elena Brugioni: The Indian Ocean in the commemoration of the Portuguese discoveries – Carmen Lucia Tindó Secco: Religiosity and universalism(s) in the Indian Ocean – Joana Passos, Kamila Krakowska Rodrigues and Marta Banasiak: Writing on the Indian Ocean rim: Literary representations of migration and transit – Gabriela Beduschi Zanfelice: Postcolonial environments: Notes on the relationship between nature, literature and the Indian Ocean in Borges Coelho’s Índicos Indícios – Jessica Falconi and Giulia Spinuzza: Fishing for stories: Audiovisual narratives of the Indian – Ocean: Goa, Mozambique and East Timor – Ute Fendler: The Indian Ocean: A relational imaginary – Meg Samuelson and Pamila Gupta: Moving frames and circulating subjects: Reflections on Capital Art Studio, Zanzibar – Clarissa Vierke: Imaginaries of far- away places? Swahili poetry and its changing worlds in the Western Indian Ocean – Ana Mafalda Leite: Foreword – Khal Torabully: Coolitude, when indentured labour rewrites the (Indian) Ocean and history in unceasing resistance and creativity – João Paulo Borges Coelho: Narrating the Indian Ocean from Mozambique – Luís Carlos Patraquim: Poems – Khal Torabully: Poems from the book Voices at the Aapravasi Ghat-Indentured Imaginairies – Jessica Faleiro: Merman.

Ana Mafalda Leite is Associate Professor of African Literature at the University of Lisbon and an associate researcher at the Centre for African and Development Studies at the same university.Elena Brugioni is Associate Professor in Comparative Literature (African literatures and Postcolonial theory) at the Department of Literary Theory of the University of Campinas UNICAMP, and Lecturer at the Graduate Program in Literary Theory and History at Unicamp.Jessica Falconi is a researcher at the Centre for African and Development Studies of the University of Lisbon and a member of Globalization and Development research group.Marta Banasiak is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Literary Theory of the University of Campinas UNICAMP and collaborating researcher at the Centre for African and Development Studies of the University of Lisbon.

• Contents: Marta Banasiak: Lusotopic navigations across the Indian Ocean – Joana Pereira Leite and Ana Mafalda Leite: The narratives of history and the uncovering of the Indian Ocean – Manuel Lobato: Travel literature and the colonial matrix on the Indian Ocean periphery: From Mozambique to Timor – Jessica Falconi and Elena Brugioni: The Indian Ocean in the commemoration of the Portuguese discoveries – Carmen Lucia Tindó Secco: Religiosity and universalism(s) in the Indian Ocean – Joana Passos, Kamila Krakowska Rodrigues and Marta Banasiak: Writing on the Indian Ocean rim: Literary representations of migration and transit – Gabriela Beduschi Zanfelice: Postcolonial environments: Notes on the relationship between nature, literature and the Indian Ocean in Borges Coelho’s Índicos Indícios – Jessica Falconi and Giulia Spinuzza: Fishing for stories: Audiovisual narratives of the Indian – Ocean: Goa, Mozambique and East Timor – Ute Fendler: The Indian Ocean: A relational imaginary – Meg Samuelson and Pamila Gupta: Moving frames and circulating subjects: Reflections on Capital Art Studio, Zanzibar – Clarissa Vierke: Imaginaries of far- away places? Swahili poetry and its changing worlds in the Western Indian Ocean – Ana Mafalda Leite: Foreword – Khal Torabully: Coolitude, when indentured labour rewrites the (Indian) Ocean and history in unceasing resistance and creativity – João Paulo Borges Coelho: Narrating the Indian Ocean from Mozambique – Luís Carlos Patraquim: Poems – Khal Torabully: Poems from the book Voices at the Aapravasi Ghat-Indentured Imaginairies – Jessica Faleiro: Merman.