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Title African, Lusophone, and Afro-Hispanic cultural dialogue / edited by Yaw Agawu-Kakraba and Komla Aggor
Published Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018
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Description 1 online resource (vi, 161 pages)
Contents Re-imagining spatial boundaries: Mia Couto's My Father's Wives and José Agualusa's Sleepwalking Land / Arthur Hughes -- Debunking racial, ethnic and cultural essentialisms: miscegenation/s and the call toward global and cosmic citizenship in Mia Couto's The Other Foot of the Mermaid / Irene Marques -- Racial identity in the 1930s urban landscape in the novels of Jorge Armado, José Lins do Rego and Lúcio Cardoso / Steven Sloan -- Towards a poetics of Francisco Félix de Souza / Paula Gândara -- Displacement and alienation: the challenges of successful integration into the Eurocentric ideal in Nelson Estupiñán Bass's El último río / Samuel Mate-Kojo -- Branding Spain: Marca España, Casa África and Spain's African overtures / Dieudonné Afatsawo -- "They look at you and nobody cares who you are or what you do": writings of Strangerhood / Inmaculada Díaz Narbona -- Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Léopold Sédar Senghor: a comparative study of Black aesthetics / Charles Désiré N'dre
Summary African, Lusophone, and Afro-Hispanic Cultural Dialogue is a collection of essays of broad historical and geographic scope that advances analytical perspectives regarding a highly transcultural and changing African continent enmeshed in the vestiges of slavery and colonialism and the complex dynamics of post-colonialism. Mostly grounded in literary studies, the essays discuss the interconnections between Africa and its Lusophone and Afro-Hispanic diaspora. Particular focus is given to how they relate to the politics of identity and assimilation, migration and displacement, the concept of "nation", Eurocentrism and racial essentialisms, as well as Black aesthetics
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Subject African literature (Portuguese) -- History and criticism
African literature (Spanish) -- History and criticism
African literature -- History and criticism
African diaspora -- Social aspects -- In literature
Aesthetics, Black -- In literature
Black people -- Ethnic identity -- In literature
Philology -- Africa
Black people -- Race identity -- In literature
Hispanic & Latino studies.
Literary studies: post-colonial literature.
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
African literature (Spanish)
African literature (Portuguese)
African literature
Philology
Africa
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Agawu-Kakraba, Yaw B., 1960- editor.
Aggor, F. Komla (Francis Komla), 1959- editor.
ISBN 9781527522398
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