African Literatures in the Portuguese Language : Singularities
Can, Nazir Ahmed (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

Date:	2023
Abstract:	This article reflects on some textual and institutional elements that distinguish literary life in Portuguese-speaking African countries. These elements concern, firstly, the pecu- liarities of the Portuguese empire. Combining precarity, epistemological backwardness, and violence in equal proportion, it inspired an artistic response that was consolidated even before the independences. Secondly, they relate to the type of decolonization produced in these territories. Contrary to the majority of other African contexts, their independence was not negotiated, but conquered through armed struggle. Thirdly, there are the thematic and formal aspects: the "animal," the "dead," and an internationalist geographical imaginary play a structuring role in the literary fields. Thus, this article demonstrates how these contexts, unique to African literatures, can also offer new data for the analysis of cultural goods in the twenty-first century.
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	African literatures in the Portuguese language ; African literature and empire ; African literature and revolution ; African literature and geography
Published in:	Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, Vol. 10 Núm. 2 (2023) , p. 148-161, ISSN 2052-2622

DOI: 10.1017/pli.2023.2

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