Reconfiguring Identities in the Portuguese-speaking World – serie
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Battleground Bodies
Gender and Sexuality in Mozambican Literature
Häftad, 2017
907 kr
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This is the first book to provide a comparative exploration of the gendered and sexual body in Mozambican literature, engaging with the work of six authors spanning different generations, styles and aesthetics. The study begins by providing a detailed and innovative survey of the dynamics of …
(Re)imagining African Independence
Film, Visual Arts and the Fall of the Portuguese Empire
Av Maria do Carmo Picarra, Teresa Castro
Häftad, 2017
849 kr
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The fortieth anniversary of the independence of the African countries colonized by Portugal presents a valuable opportunity to reassess how colonialism has been «imagined» through the medium of the moving image. The essays collected in this volume investigate Portuguese colonialism and its filmic …
Late Postcolonial Condition
Twenty-First-Century Reconfigurations in the Literatures of Portuguese-Speaking Africa
Av Emanuelle Rodrigues dos Santos, Paulo De Medeiros m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
755 kr
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«How can we read twenty-first-century African literatures in Portuguese so that we can properly understand the voices telling us of their particular situation today? In The Late Postcolonial Condition Emanuelle Rodrigues dos Santos deftly shows us how to adjust our perspectives and assumptions from …
Postcolonial Nation and Narrative III: Literature & Cinema
Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau and São Tomé e Príncipe
Av Ana Mafalda Leite, Hilary Owen m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
811 kr
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This volume investigates literary and cinematographic narratives from Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau and Sao Tome and Principe, analysing the different ways in which social and cultural experience is represented in postcolonial contexts. It continues and completes the exploration of the postcolonial …
Voices, Languages, Discourses
Interpreting the Present and the Memory of Nation in Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau and São Tomé and Príncipe
Av Ana Mafalda Leite, Jessica Falconi m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
796 kr
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This volume brings together a selection of interviews with writers and filmmakers from Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau and São Tomé and Príncipe in order to examine representations and images of national identity in the postcolonial narratives of these countries. It continues and completes the …
Beyond Binaries
Sex, Sexualities and Gender in the Lusophone World
Av Paulo Pepe, Ana Raquel Fernandes
Häftad, 2019
811 kr
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This volume sets out to investigate queer literature and cinema, exploring in particular the intersection of issues of gender and Lusophone culture. The essays collected here present individual case studies within a queer theoretical framework, examining the ways in which queer identities are …
Saramago After the Nobel
Contemporary Readings of José Saramago’s Late Works
Av Paulo de Medeiros, José Ornelas
Häftad, 2022
684 kr
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José Saramago, one of the most critically acclaimed writers worldwide, was distinguished with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998. This honour, the first to be bestowed on a Portuguese-language writer, marked one of the high points in a long and manifold career. Largely an auto-didact, Saramago …
Companion to João Paulo Borges Coelho
Rewriting the (Post)Colonial Remains
Av Elena Brugioni, Orlando Grossegesse m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
893 kr
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This companion offers a critical overview of a great part of the literary oeuvre of the acclaimed Mozambican writer and historian João Paulo Borges Coelho. It focuses on a multiplicity of elements central to his literary project, underscoring the originality and complexity of one of the most …
Cities of the Lusophone World
Literature, Culture and Urban Transformations
Av Doris Wieser, Ana Filipa Prata
Häftad, 2018
864 kr
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Cities of the Lusophone World addresses diverse literary and cultural representations of urban settings produced in the period from the 1960s to the present day and originating from the Island of Mozambique, Lisbon, Luanda, Macau, Maputo, Porto Alegre and São Paulo. The volume contributes to the …
Worlds of Mia Couto
Häftad, 2020
796 kr
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Mia Couto has been recognised internationally as one of the most important African authors of our times. His rapidly growing opus shifts fluidly between various modes of writing, mixing historical elements with poetic and autobiographic ones, in often unpredictable and intellectually challenging …
Mozambican Modern Ghost Story (1866–2006)
The Genealogy of a Genre
Häftad, 2022
814 kr
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This is the first book to analyse the Mozambican modern ghost story, establishing the genre’s unique characteristics, situating it in a transnational context, and distinguishing it from other supernatural traditions. The study discusses why it emerged in different historical moments in Mozambican …
Indian Ocean and the Portuguese-Speaking World
Literary and Cultural Intersections
Av Ana Mafalda Leite, Elena Brugioni m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
819 kr
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«This is a timely and rigorous addition to the cultural study of the Indian Ocean, as a nexus of transnational meaning and relations. Revealing the ocean in its historical, aesthetic and utopian diversity, this book heralds a new way of understanding shifting power dynamics fluidly defined through …
Power of the Image in the Work of Lídia Jorge
Av Nazaré Torrão, José Cândido de Oliveira Martins
Häftad, 2023
804 kr
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«A pioneering first in the English language. This is a wonderfully subtle, multifaceted study of the image in the work of one of Portugal’s greatest writers. Admirable for its depth of analysis and breadth of coverage, this is a real gift for new learners of Portuguese and established scholars …
Easterly Wind
Luso-Orientalisms in Portuguese Dictatorship Films
Av Maria do Carmo Piçarra, Paulo De Medeiros m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
585 kr
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The filmography representing the ‘Portuguese Orient’ during the Estado Novo (1933–1974) is scarce and late, employing a simplified Luso- tropicalist rhetoric that repeatedly actualises the myth of a vast, long-lost, territory. This book examines the impact of cinematographic representations of the …
Magic Stones and Flying Snakes
Gender and the ‘Postcolonial Exotic’ in the Work of Paulina Chiziane and Lídia Jorge
Häftad, 2012
709 kr
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This monograph is the first to identify an important theoretical overlap between Anglo-Saxon and Lusophone postcolonial theories: the systematic neglect of gender and sexual variables in the analysis of the marketing of cultural difference in the post colonial era. Drawing on the theoretical work …
Speaking the Postcolonial Nation
Interviews with Writers from Angola and Mozambique
Av Ana Mafalda Leite, Sheila Khan m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
682 kr
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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 …
Narrating the Postcolonial Nation
Mapping Angola and Mozambique
Av Ana Mafalda Leite, Hilary Owen m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
863 kr
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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 …
Utopia in Portugal, Brazil and Lusophone African Countries
Häftad, 2015
1024 kr
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This book studies the history, literature and culture of Portuguese-speaking countries through the lens of utopia. The role of utopia in Portuguese literature is the object of fresh analyses ranging from Camões to Gonçalo M. Tavares, and António Vieira to José Saramago. The chapters on Angola and …
Mário de Sá-Carneiro, A Cosmopolitan Modernist
Av Simon Park, Fernando Beleza
Häftad, 2016
823 kr
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Although he committed suicide at the age of twenty-five, Mário de Sá-Carneiro left behind a rich corpus of texts that is inventive, playful, even daring. The first collection in English to be dedicated to his work, this volume brings together scholars from Portugal, Brazil, and the USA to reassess …
«New Portuguese Letters» to the World
International Reception
Av Ana Luísa Amaral, Ana Paula Ferreira m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
992 kr
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Published in 1972, New Portuguese Letters addressed censored issues – such as the colonial war, immigration, the Catholic Church, violence, and the legal and social status of women – becoming a symbol of resistance against the Fascist Portuguese regime. Privileging feminist approaches, this volume …
Heaven of Their Own
Heresy and Heterodoxy in Portuguese Literature from the Eighteenth Century to the Present
Av Maria Manuel Lisboa, Cláudia Pazos-Alonso m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
886 kr
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Religious conflict has existed for as long as humanity has been capable of articulating the experience of faith. Belief in a higher power – whatever its nature – has tended to go hand in hand with the desire to force, or at least persuade, the rest of the world to agree with the believer. Portugal …
