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 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
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Print version record |
Subject |
African literature (Portuguese) -- History and criticism
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African literature (Spanish) -- History and criticism
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African literature -- History and criticism
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African diaspora -- Social aspects -- In literature
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Aesthetics, Black -- In literature
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Black people -- Ethnic identity -- In literature
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Philology -- Africa
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Black people -- Race identity -- In literature
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Hispanic & Latino studies.
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Literary studies: post-colonial literature.
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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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African literature (Spanish)
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African literature (Portuguese)
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African literature
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Philology
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Africa
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Agawu-Kakraba, Yaw B., 1960- editor.
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Aggor, F. Komla (Francis Komla), 1959- editor.
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ISBN |
9781527522398 |
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1527522393 |
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