Voices, Languages, Discourses: Interpreting the Present and the Memory of Nation in Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau and São Tomé and Príncipe: 12 (Reconfiguring Identities in the Portuguese-speaking World) - Softcover

 
9781787075856: Voices, Languages, Discourses: Interpreting the Present and the Memory of Nation in Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau and São Tomé and Príncipe: 12 (Reconfiguring Identities in the Portuguese-speaking World)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1787075850 ISBN 13: 9781787075856
Publisher: Peter Lang, 2020

Synopsis

This collection of interviews with writers and filmmakers from Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau and Sao Tome and Principe explores representations and images of national identity in the postcolonial narratives of these countries. The volume makes a valuable contribution to debates on postcolonialism, nation and identity in Portuguese-speaking Africa.

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About the Author

Ana Mafalda Leite is Associate Professor at the University of Lisbon. Her areas of research include Mozambican literature, African cultures and literatures in the Portuguese language, oral literature and postcolonial studies. Her publications include Oralidades & Escritas Pós-Coloniais (2012).

Jessica Falconi is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for the Study of Africa, Asia and Latin America at the University of Lisbon. Her publications include Utopia e conflittualità. Ilha de Moçambique nella poesia mozambicana contemporanea (2008).

Kamila Krakowska is Assistant Professor at Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society, where she teaches International and African Studies. Her PhD thesis on travel in the novels of Mário de Andrade and Mia Couto was awarded the prestigious Fernão Mendes Pinto prize.

Sheila Khan is a researcher at the Center for Communication and Society Studies (CECS) at the University of Minho. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher on the project funded by the European Research Council, EXCHANGE. Her publications includes (with Nazir Can and Helena Machado, eds), Racism and Racial Surveillance: Modernity Matters (2020).

Carmen Tindó Secco is Professor of African Literatures in the Portuguese Language at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Her publications include A magia das letras africanas (2003), Brasil/África: como se o mar fosse mentira (2003) and África & Brasil - letras em laços (2010).

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Publisher
Peter Lang
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1787075850
ISBN 13 
9781787075856
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
408
Editor
Leite