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A Companion to João Paulo Borges Coelho

Rewriting the (Post)Colonial Remains
Buch | Softcover
266 Seiten
2020 | New edition
Peter Lang Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78707-986-1 (ISBN)
CHF 98,90 inkl. MwSt
This companion offers a critical overview of a great part of the literary oeuvre of the acclaimed Mozambican writer and historian João Paulo Borges Coelho. The book advances new critical paths within Portuguese-speaking literary studies from a comparative perspective.

This companion offers a critical overview of a great part of the literary oeuvre of the acclaimed Mozambican writer and historian João Paulo Borges Coelho. It focuses on a multiplicity of elements central to his literary project, underscoring the originality and complexity of one of the most prominent authors from the Portuguese-speaking world. With contributions from scholars hailing from different academic disciplines including history, this collection offers a compelling and original reading of Borges Coelho's fictional work, engaging with current critical debates in the fields of literary theory, postcolonial studies, world-literature, and eco-criticism. The book advances new critical paths within Portuguese-speaking literary studies from a comparative perspective. At the same time it is addressed to a variety of scholars and advanced students in other, related fields.

Elena Brugioni is Assistant Professor in African literatures and postcolonial theory in the Department of Literary Theory at the University of Campinas (Brazil) and Lecturer in the Graduate Program in Literary Theory and History at Unicamp. Orlando Grossegesse is Professor of German and Comparative Literary Studies at the Institute of Arts and Humanities at the University of Minho (Braga). Paulo de Medeiros is Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick.

CONTENTS: João Paulo Borges Coelho: A Short Biography - João Paulo Borges Coelho: The Enchanted Cloth - Paolo Israel: The Archive and the Fable: Trajectory of a Mozambican Historian - Nazir Ahmed Can: Poetics and Politics of Memory: Notes on João Paulo Borges Coelho's Novels - Ana Mafalda Leite: Narratives of the Indian Ocean in the Writing of João Paulo Borges Coelho: A Transnational Geography - Rui Gonçalves Miranda - History, Literature, and the Indices of the Ocean: Force of Signification in Borges Coelho's 'A força do mar de Agosto' - Jessica Falconi: The Tourism Imaginary in Hinyambaan - Orlando Grossegesse: A Parody of Final Redemption: The Uses of Geopolitical Fiction in O Olho de Hertzog - Elena Brugioni: Of Clues, Traces, and Minor Histories: Theorizing the Genre of Historical Novel in Rainhas da Noite - Emanuelle Santos: Towards a World-Literary Aesthetics of Postcolonial Memory: Rainhas da Noite by João Paulo Borges Coelho - Paulo de Medeiros: The Drowning of Time: Ecological Catastrophe, Dialectics, and Allegorical Realism in João Paulo Borges Coelho's Ponta Gea and Água: Uma novela rural .

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Reconfiguring Identities in the Portuguese-Speaking World ; 14
Zusatzinfo 3 Illustrations
Verlagsort Witney
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 400 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Romanistik
Schlagworte Alonso • Borges • Brugioni • Cláudia • Coelho • Companion • eco-criticism • Elena • Grossegesse • History, Memory, and the Indian Ocean • João • Medeiros • Mozambican postcolonial novel • Orlando • Paulo • pazos • Postcolonial • postcolonial studies • remains • Rewriting • World-Literature
ISBN-10 1-78707-986-4 / 1787079864
ISBN-13 978-1-78707-986-1 / 9781787079861
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