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The Post-colonial Literature of Lusophone Africa
This work examines the Portuguese and crioulo literatures of the five African Portuguese-speaking countries: Angola; Cape Verde; Guinea Bissau; Mozambique; and Sao Tome and Principe. It offers an introduction to the cultural and historical context within which literature developed in Lusophone Africa, as well as a discussion of the prose and poetry published by the writers from these five countries since independence. As such, the volume is intended not only as a textbook for the student of the literatures of the five Lusophone countries, but also as a cultural and intellectual foundation for the specialist reader with an interest in the former Portuguese colonial empire.
Same and Other
The idea of African Otherness has occupied a central role in discourses on cultural production in Africa, whether film, literature, music or the arts. These claims, articulated both by ‘Western' and ‘African' critics and consumers, means that particular criteria and standards are adopted in relation to cultural production in Africa. The claim to African Otherness is gaining new strength in the wake of globalization, but it is also increasingly challenged by a number of contemporary artists. This book deals with the question of relevance and meaning of the signifier in various fields of contemporary cultural production in Africa.
A History of Twentieth-century African Literatures
African literatures, says volume editor Oyekan Owomoyela, "testify to the great and continuing impact of the colonizing project on the African universe." African writers must struggle constantly to define for themselves and other just what "Africa" is and who they are in a continent constructed as a geographic and cultural entity largely by Europeans. This study reflects the legacy of colonialism by devoting nine of its thirteen chapters to literature in "Europhone" languages—English, French, and Portuguese. Foremost among the Anglophone writers discussed are Nigerians Amos Tutuola, Chinua Achebe, and Wole Soyinka. Writers from East Africa are also represented, as are those from South Afri...
A History of Postcolonial Lusophone Africa
A comprehensive history of the five African Portuguese-speaking countries - Angola, Mozambique, Guinea Bissau, Cape Verde and Sao Tome e Principe - sinece they became independent from Portugal in 1974-75.
New Urban Configurations
Urban areas have been caught up in a turbulent process of transformation over the past 50 years and changes have been rapid, with issues such as mobility, nature, water management, energy use and public space featuring prominently._x000D_ In each Olympic year since 1988, the Faculty of Architecture at Delft University of Technology has held an international conference focusing on the connection between research and design, exploring the field of tension between science, technology and art._x000D_ This book presents the proceedings of the latest in this series of conferences: New Urban Configurations, held in Delft, the Netherlands, in October 2012 in collaboration with the European Associati...
Global Archaeological Theory
Archaeological theory has gone through a great upheaval in the last 50 years – from the processual theory, which wanted to make archaeology more "scientific" to post-processual theory, which understands that interpreting human behavior (even of past cultures) is a subjective study. This subjective approach incorporates a plurality of readings, thereby implying that different interpretations are always possible, allowing us to modify and change our ideas under the light of new information and/or interpretive frameworks. In this way, interpretations form a continuous flow of transformation and change, and thus archaeologists do not uncover a real past but rather construct a historical past o...
Uma Carta à Posteridade — Jorge de Sena e Alexandre O’Neill
«Não foi para morrer que nós nascemos e isso de morrer não faz parte de nenhum programa, dizem Jorge de Sena e Alexandre O’Neill. Faz, contudo, parte do programa de poetas escrever cartas à posteridade, embora sabendo que a destinatária dessa carta nada fará por eles. Este ensaio propõe uma leitura crítica do conteúdo fundamental das cartas de dois poetas maiores do século xx, descrevendo os seus projetos poéticos e o modo como configuram formas distintas de encarar a posteridade e o seu lugar na história da poesia portuguesa. Se Jorge de Sena quis deixar uma marca indelével na sua contemporaneidade e não cedeu a falsos eufemismos para contar a sua visão das coisas, O’Neill construiu um projeto poético deflacionário, reduzindo as expectativas sobre a sua obra e exigindo de si e dos outros um modo de ser e uma dicção mais modestos.»
Dicionário de Literatura Gay: 7.ª edição (2022)
Gosta de literatura de temática LGBTQ+ mas não sabe o que ler a seguir? Procura um livro infantil ou juvenil sobre orientação sexual ou identidade de género para oferecer ao seu filho? Ouviu falar de um certo romance e quer saber mais antes de o comprar? Quer ficar a conhecer melhor um autor de que gosta muito? Gosta de história e quer saber quando foi escrito o primeiro romance queer de Portugal? Investiga sobre temática LGBTQ+ e pretende reunir bibliografia relevante? Poderá encontrar respostas a estas e a muitas outras questões nas páginas da 7.ª edição do Dicionário de Literatura Gay de Portugal, uma obra de referência inédita e indispensável, a primeira edição complet...
