Speaking the Postcolonial Nation Interviews with Writers from Angola and Mozambique.
Title:
Speaking the Postcolonial Nation Interviews with Writers from Angola and Mozambique.
Author:
Leite, Ana Mafalda.
ISBN:
9783035306323
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Oxford : Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2014.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (292 p.)
General Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
Contents:
Cover; Contents; David Brookshaw Foreword; Ana Mafalda Leite Editorial Note; Maps of Angola and Mozambique; Sheila Khan, Jessica Falconi and Kamila Krakowska Introduction; Part 1 Angola; Interview with Luandino Vieira; Interview with Ana Paula Tavares; Interview with Boaventura Cardoso; Interview with José Eduardo Agualusa; Interview with Ondjaki; Interview with Pepetela; Part 2 Mozambique; Interview with João Paulo Borges Coelho; Interview with Marcelo Panguana; Interview with Mia Couto; Interview with Paulina Chiziane; Interview with Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa
Interview with Luís Carlos PatraquimLivia Apa Ruy Duarte de Carvalho: In memoriam; General Bibliography; Index
Abstract:
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 the complex processes of deconstructing colonial heritage and (re)constructing national identity in a multinational or multiethnic state. Their testimonies provide a parallel narrative that complements the many fictional narrators found in Angolan and Mozambican novels, short stories and poems. The aut.
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