This edition of PLCS 40-41 focuses on the personal experience and literary production of male and female writers whose lives have passed in different ways and at different times between Angola and Portugal. The group of these people can hardly be covered with a single term, such as migrants, refugees, Africans from the diaspora, Afro-descendants, African-Americans, Afro-politicians, etc. In this project, the term "people in transit" was chosen with the aim of to address the most diverse migratory experiences between Angola and Portugal and their repercussions in literature. - Ana Paula Tavares, Aida Gomes, Kalaf Epalanga, Raquel Lima, Yara Monteiro and Zetho Cunha GonQueroalves - originally recorded for the documentary Living and writing in transit: between Angola and Portugal (2021). On the other hand, it includes theoretical essays and studies on the works of the interviewees as well as that of another writer in transit between Angola and Portugal, Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida.
