Brazil-A New Republic of African Letters?
Can, Nazir Ahmed (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Bano, Issaka Maïnassara (State University of Campinas (Brazil))

Fecha:	2023
Resumen:	Today, it is not the former colonial metropolis (Portugal), but a former colony (Brazil) that has become the main legitimizing center of African literature in the Portuguese language. It is also in Brazil that the largest number of studies on African literature written in other languages is produced. To illustrate this state of affairs, we begin by demonstrating how the work of Alain Mabanckou has penetrated the literary market and the Brazilian academy. After contextualizing the historical institutional dependence that characterizes French-speaking African literature in relation to the "center" (Paris) and situating Mabanckou in this dynamic, we look at how his work arrived in Brazil, the growing interest that it has awakened, and the type of studies conducted there. In the last part of the article, we show that Mabanckou is not an isolated phenomenon and is part of a historical process that began more than fifty years ago: due to the flow of translations and academic studies on works from different linguistic contexts, Brazil helps to unsettle the linguistic self-centeredness that characterizes African literary studies and reduces dis- tances between "center" and "periphery" that guide the world literary game.
Nota:	Altres ajuts: acords transformatius de la UAB
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Lengua:	Anglès
Documento:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Materia:	Brazil ; Literary circulation ; African literatures ; Alain Mabanckou
Publicado en:	Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, Vol. 10 Núm. 2 (2023) , p. 217-231, ISSN 2052-2622

DOI: 10.1017/pli.2023.7

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