Reevaluating Mozambique: Volume 10

Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-1-933227-07-8
Verlag: Tagus Press

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 633 g

Reihe: Portuguese Literary and Cultur

Despite the critical tone of many of the articles in this collection, today's Mozambique has the potential to become a true success story, not as designated by the outside world, but as determined from within. The fact that critical voices are now raised, as much in the rich cultural output of the nation as in the structures of civil society, raises the possibility of a tangible improvement in the lives of ordinary Mozambicans, since every problem must be recognized before a solution can be reached. Chiziane's interrogation of patriarchal practice, Momplé's portrayal of corruption and abject poverty, Couto's depiction of senseless violence, refashion our image of Mozambique away from the utopian paradise-in-the-making that it never was towards a more profound questioning of the problems that this very young nation faces. What remains to be seen is whether Mozambique will finally be allowed to determine its own destiny or whether that small window between the fall of communism and the obliterating rise of the hegemony of world trade was too brief to permit a meaningful Mozambican identity to come into being.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rothwell, Phillip

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction: Reevaluating Mozambique - Phillip Rothwell
- ARTICLES/Artigos
- The Politics of Negative Peace: Mozambique in the Aftermath of the Rome Cease-Fire Agreement - Elísio Macamo and Dieter Neubert
- Appearances and Realities of Post-War Reconstruction in Mozambique - Branwen Gruffydd Jones
- (Lost) Love, Eros and Metaphor: Colonialism, Social Fragmentation and the ""Burden"" of Race in Portagem by Orlando Mendes - Geoffrey S. Mitchell
- On Cross-Border Languages and Cross-Border Collaboration between Malawi and Mozambique - Gregory Kamwendo
- Mia Couto or the Art of Storytelling - Patrick Chabal
- Terra Sonâmbula: Manifestações de uma ""Odisséia"" Africana no Moçambique Pós-Independência - Robert Moser
- A Feminist Dance of Love, Eroticism, and Life: Paulina Chiziane's Novelistic Recreation of Tradition and Language in Postcolonial Mozambique - Russell G. Hamilton
- The Serpent's Tongue: Gendering Autoethnography in Paulina Chiziane's Balada de Amor ao Vento - Hilary Owen
- Em torno de Modelos no Romance Moçambicano - Ana Mafalda Leite
- História Literária em Angola e Moçambique e Fixação do Cânone da Crítica - Ana Maria Martinho
- Mozambique in Transition in the Narratives of Lília Momplé - Claire Williams
- Remembering the First Multiparty Elections
- ""Já Votei"" - Malangatana
- 1994 Election Posters and Ballot Papers
- REVIEWS/Recensões
- Vinte e Nove Assaltos ou os Novos Pactos. Outras ficções: Ensaios sobre literaturas afro-luso-brasileiras, de Laura Cavalcante Padilha. - Margarida Calafate Ribeiro
- Luís Adriano Carlos (ed). Árvore: Folhas de Poesia. Facsimile. Porto: Campo das Letras, 2003. - Daniela Kato
- Silvina Rodrigues Lopes. A Inocência do Devir. Lisboa, Vendaval, 2003. - Pedro Eiras
- Elizabeth Travassos. Modernismo e música brasileira. Rio de Janeiro: Jorge Zahar, 2003 (1st ed., 2000). - Pedro Meira Monteiro
- David Brookshaw. Perceptions of China in Modern Portuguese Literature: Border Gates. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 2002. - Claire Williams
- Kathleen E. Sheldon. Pounders of Grain: A History of Women, Work and Politics in Mozambique. Portsmouth: Heinemann, 2002. - Hilary Owen
- João Costa (ed). Portuguese Syntax: New Comparative Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. - José Elías Ulloa
- Luitgarde O.C. Barros. A Derradeira Gesta: Lampião e Nazarenos Guerreando no Sertão. São Paulo: Muad, 2000. - Maria-Eugênia D.C. Freitas
- Ana Paula Ferreira (ed). A Urgência de Contar: Contos de Mulheres dos Anos 40. Lisboa: Caminho, 2000. - Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez
- María Xosé Rodríguez Galdo and Daniel Varela-Suanzes-Carpegna (orgs). Galicia & América: Cinco Siglos de Historia. Coruña: Consello Da Cultura Galega, 1992. - Yeon-Soo Kim

Über Autor(innen)

Phillip Rothwell is Professor of Portuguese at Rutgers University. His recent publications include, A Postmodern Nationalist: Truth, Orality and Gender in the Work of Mia Couto (Bucknell, 2004), A Canon of Empty Fathers: Paternity in Portuguese Narrative (Bucknell, 2007), and Sexual/Textual Empires: Gender and Marginality in Lusophone African Literature (Bristol, 2004; edited with Hilary Owen).