Cover; Contents; Ana Mafalda Leite Introduction; Iain Chambers Power, Language and the Poetics of the Postcolonial; Part 1 Historical themes; Gilberto Matusse The Narrative of the Nation in Craveirinha; Carmen Lucia Tindó Secco The Other Feet of History: A Reading of Choriro by Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa and O Outro Pé da Sereia by Mia Couto; Ana Mafalda Leite Rewriting the Thresholds of History in Order to Re-Think the Nation; Inocência Mata The Memory of Colonization and the Sentence of the Future in the Figuration of the Nation; Sheila Khan Utopias and Aporias: The Measure of a Nation's Dreams

Part 2 The voyage themeLaura Cavalcante Padilha Novels as Travel Diaries: The Case of Angola; Rita Chaves Ruy Duarte de Carvalho's Desmedida: The Voyage as Synthesis and Invention; Kamila Krakowska The Voyages of the Postcolonial Nations in Estação das Chuvas and Terra Sonâmbula; Giulia Spinuzza The Reconfiguration of the Nation in Eduardo White's Janela para Oriente; Part 3 Discursive strategies; Hilary Owen Women on the Edge of a Nervous Empire in Paulina Chiziane and Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa

Nazir Ahmed Can A House of Marked Cards: The Public Discourse of the Political Elite in the Novels of João Paulo Borges CoelhoTânia Macedo Reflection and Aesthetic Development in the Work of Manuel Rui; Livia Apa Nation and Narration: What Does African Cinema Tell Us?; Jessica Falconi Some Thoughts around the Invention of the Lusofonia Narratives; Notes on Contributors; Index of Names