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Title Lusophone African short stories and poetry after independence : decolonial destinies / edited and translated by Lamonte Aidoo and Daniel F. Silva
Published London ; New York, NY : Anthem Press, 2021
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Description 1 online resource (x, 275 pages)
Series Anthem studies in race, power and society
Anthem studies in race, power and society.
Contents Part I. Angola -- Part II. Cabo Verde -- Part III. Guinea-Bissau -- Part IV. Mozambique -- Part V. São Tomé e Príncipe
Summary In 1975, after much resistance, Portugal became the last colonial power to relinquish its colonies on the African continent. The tardiness of Portuguese decolonization in Africa (Cabo Verde, Angola, Mozambique, Guinea Bissau, São Tomé e Príncipe) raises critical questions for the emergence of national literary and cultural production in the wake of national independence. Bringing together the works of poets, short story writers, and journalists, this book charts the emergence and evolution of the national literatures of Portugal's former African colonies, from 1975 to the present. The aim of this book is to examine the ways in which writers contended with the process of decolonization, forging national, transnational, and diasporic identities through literature while grappling with the legacies and continuities of racial power structures, colonial systems of representation, and the struggles for political sovereignty and social justice. This book will be the first of its kind in English to include canonical, emerging, and previously untranslated authors of poetry and short-form fiction to a new public.-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Lamonte Aidoo is Associate Professor of Romance Studies at Duke University. Daniel F. Silva is Associate Professor of Luso-Hispanic Studies at Middlebury College
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Subject African poetry (Portuguese) -- History and criticism
Short stories, African (Portuguese) -- History and criticism
Decolonization in literature.
POETRY / African
African poetry (Portuguese)
Decolonization in literature
Short stories, African (Portuguese)
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
Form Electronic book
Author Aidoo, Lamonte, 1986- editor, translator.
Silva, Daniel F., 1985- editor, translator.
ISBN 9781785276217
1785276212
9781785276200
1785276204