New publication - ULisboapascal.iseg.ulisboa.pt/.../images/NarratingthePostcolonialNation.pdf ·...

1
Method of Payment: Invoice VISA Eurocard / MasterCard Card Number CVV / CVC Exp. Date Card Holder Signature eBooks are only available at www.peterlang.com. Postage and handling: within the UK add £3 for the first book, £2 for each additional / within Europe add €5 for the first book, €3 for each additional. Prices are subject to change without notice. We allow a 5% discount for library orders. All sales are final. Please allow 1-2 weeks for delivery. I order: Copy Address Date Signature Please send your order to: FREEPOST RTKC-EEBC-ABSA Peter Lang Ltd • International Academic Publishers 52 St Giles • Oxford OX1 3LU • United Kingdom Tel. +44 (0)1865 514160 • Fax : +44 (0)1865 604028 [email protected]www.peterlang.com New publication A. M. Leite H. Owen R. Chaves L. Apa (eds) Narrating the Postcolonial Nation pb. ISBN 978-3-0343-0891-5 CHF 60.– / € D 53.50 / € A 55.– / € 50.– / £ 40.– / US-$ 64.9 Ana Mafalda Leite Hilary Owen Rita Chaves Livia Apa (eds) Narrating the Postcolonial Nation Mapping Angola and Mozambique Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2014. 291 pp. Reconfiguring Identities in the Portuguese-Speaking World. Vol. 2 Edited by Paulo de Medeiros and Cláudia Pazos-Alonso pb. ISBN 978-3-0343-0891-5 CHF 60.– / € D 53.50 / € A 55.– / € 50.– / £ 40.– / US-$ 64.95 eBook ISBN 978-3-0353-0631-6 CHF 63.20 / € D 59.50 / € A 60.– / € 50.– / £ 40.– / US-$ 64.95 he essays collected in this volume look at the way that Mo- zambican and Angolan literary works seek to narrate, re-cre- ate and make sense of the postcolonial nation. Some of the studies focus on individual works; others are comparative analyses of Angolan and Mozambican works, with a focus on the way they enter into dialogue with each other. The volume is oriented by three broad themes: the role of history; the recurring image of the voyage; and dis- cursive/narrative strategies. The final section of the book considers the postcolonial in a broader Lusophone and international context. CONTENTS: Iain Chambers: Power, language and the poetics of the post- colonial Gilberto Matusse: The Narrative of the Nation in Craveirinha Carmen 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 Sen- tence of the Future in the Figuration of the Nation Sheila Khan: Uto- pias and Aporias: The Calibre of a Nation’s Dreams Laura Cavalcante Padilha: Novels as Travel Diaries: The Case of Angola Rita Chaves: Ruy Duarte de Carvalho’s Desmedida: The Voyage as Synthesis and Inven- tion Kamila Krakowska: The Voyages of the Post-Colonial Nations in Estação das Chuvas and Terra Sonâmbula Giulia Spinuzza: The Recon- guration of the Nation in Eduardo White’s Janela para Oriente 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 Coelho Tania Macedo: Reflection and Aesthetic Devel- opment in the Work of Manuel Rui Livia Apa: Nation and Narration: What does African Cinema Tell Us? Jessica Falconi: Some Thoughts around the Idea of the invention of the Lusofonia Narratives. ANA MAFALDA LEITE is professor of African literature 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 recent publications include Oralidades & Escritas Pós-Coloniais (2012). HILARY OWEN is professor of Portuguese and African studies at the Uni- versity of Manchester. Her publications include Mother Africa, Father Marx: Women’s Writings in Mozambique (2007) and Antigone’s Daugh- ters? Gender, Genealogy, and the Politics of Authorship in Twentieth-Cen- tury Portuguese Women’s Writing (with Cláudia Pazos-Alonso, 2011). RITA CHAVES is professor in African literature at the University of São Paulo. She is on the editorial board of Revista de Letras and Via Atlântica. Among her recent publications are Mia Couto: O desejo de contar e de inventar (with Fernanda Cavacas and Tânia Macedo, 2010) and Portanto … Pepetela (with Tânia Macedo, 2009). LIVIA APA is studying towards a doctorate in African literature at the University of Lisbon. She has translated into Italian works by Mia Couto, Ruy Duarte de Carvalho, Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos and Ana Luísa Amaral and has recently published Abitare la lingua: Riflessioni sulla lingua portoghese in Angola (2010).

Transcript of New publication - ULisboapascal.iseg.ulisboa.pt/.../images/NarratingthePostcolonialNation.pdf ·...

Page 1: New publication - ULisboapascal.iseg.ulisboa.pt/.../images/NarratingthePostcolonialNation.pdf · opment in the Work of Manuel Rui • Livia Apa: Nation and Narration: What does African

Method of Payment:

Invoice VISA Eurocard / MasterCard

Card Number CVV / CVC

Exp. Date Card Holder

Signature

eBooks are only available at www.peterlang.com. Postage and handling: within the UK add £3 for the f irst book, £2 for each additional / within Europe add €5 for the f irst book, €3 for each additional. Prices are subject to change without notice. We allow a 5% discount for librar y orders. All sales are f inal. Please allow 1-2 weeks for deliver y.

I order:

Copy

Address

Date Signature

Please send your order to:

FREEPOST RTKC-EEBC-ABSAPeter Lang Ltd • International Academic Publishers52 St Giles • Oxford OX1 3LU • United Kingdom Tel. +44 (0)1865 514160 • Fax : +44 (0)1865 [email protected] • www.peterlang.com

New publication

A. M. Leite • H. Owen • R. Chaves • L. Apa (eds)Narrating the Postcolonial Nationpb. ISBN 978-3-0343-0891-5CHF 60.– / €D 53.50 / €A 55.– / € 50.– / £ 40.– / US-$ 64.9

Ana Mafalda Leite • Hilary Owen • Rita Chaves • Livia Apa (eds)

Narrating the Postcolonial NationMapping Angola and Mozambique

Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2014. 291 pp.

Recon� guring Identities in the Portuguese-Speaking World. Vol. 2Edited by Paulo de Medeiros and Cláudia Pazos-Alonso

pb. ISBN 978-3-0343-0891-5 CHF 60.– / €D 53.50 / €A 55.– / € 50.– / £ 40.– / US-$ 64.95eBook ISBN 978-3-0353-0631-6 CHF 63.20 / €D 59.50 / €A 60.– / € 50.– / £ 40.– / US-$ 64.95

T he essays collected in this volume look at the way that Mo-zambican and Angolan literary works seek to narrate, re-cre-ate and make sense of the postcolonial nation. Some of the

studies focus on individual works; others are comparative analyses of Angolan and Mozambican works, with a focus on the way they enter into dialogue with each other. The volume is oriented by three broad themes: the role of history; the recurring image of the voyage; and dis-cursive/narrative strategies. The � nal section of the book considers the postcolonial in a broader Lusophone and international context.

CONTENTS: Iain Chambers: Power, language and the poetics of the post-colonial • Gilberto Matusse: The Narrative of the Nation in Craveirinha • Carmen 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 Sen-tence of the Future in the Figuration of the Nation • Sheila Khan: Uto-pias and Aporias: The Calibre of a Nation’s Dreams • Laura Cavalcante Padilha: Novels as Travel Diaries: The Case of Angola • Rita Chaves: Ruy Duarte de Carvalho’s Desmedida: The Voyage as Synthesis and Inven-tion • Kamila Krakowska: The Voyages of the Post-Colonial Nations in Estação das Chuvas and Terra Sonâmbula • Giulia Spinuzza: The Recon-� guration of the Nation in Eduardo White’s Janela para Oriente • 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 Coelho • Tania Macedo: Re� ection and Aesthetic Devel-opment in the Work of Manuel Rui • Livia Apa: Nation and Narration: What does African Cinema Tell Us? • Jessica Falconi: Some Thoughts around the Idea of the invention of the Lusofonia Narratives.

ANA MAFALDA LEITE is professor of African literature 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 recent publications include Oralidades & Escritas Pós-Coloniais (2012).HILARY OWEN is professor of Portuguese and African studies at the Uni-versity of Manchester. Her publications include Mother Africa, Father Marx: Women’s Writings in Mozambique (2007) and Antigone’s Daugh-ters? Gender, Genealogy, and the Politics of Authorship in Twentieth-Cen-tury Portuguese Women’s Writing (with Cláudia Pazos-Alonso, 2011). RITA CHAVES is professor in African literature at the University of São Paulo. She is on the editorial board of Revista de Letras and Via Atlântica. Among her recent publications are Mia Couto: O desejo de contar e de inventar (with Fernanda Cavacas and Tânia Macedo, 2010) and Portanto … Pepetela (with Tânia Macedo, 2009). LIVIA APA is studying towards a doctorate in African literature at the University of Lisbon. She has translated into Italian works by Mia Couto, Ruy Duarte de Carvalho, Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos and Ana Luísa Amaral and has recently published Abitare la lingua: Ri� essioni sulla lingua portoghese in Angola (2010).