Remembering Angola

by Phillip Rothwell (Editor)

Overview

Remembering Angola is a groundbreaking volume that brings together articles by leading scholars from around the world. From a range of disciplines, they reflect on the role Angolan culture has played in reformulating the torn fabric of a nation historically beset by strife and oppression. Thus, "re-membering" goes beyond recall, although many of the articles in the volume contemplate histories and memories—from those of the colonial war to those of post-independence exiles; from those of degredados to those of Angola's leading literary voices; from those of Portuguese women who witnessed the horrors of Salazar's policies in the jewel of the Portuguese imperial crown to those of a nineteenth-century journalist elite who laid the seeds of a national consciousness. The volume dialogues with a range of theoretical issues including the concept of voyaging through one's own alterity as an Angolan antidote to Camões's appropriating voyage into the unknown; and an interrogation of Angola's answers to Orientalism. It also includes a revealing interview (one of very few published in English) with the reclusive José Luandino Vieira, one of the Portuguese-speaking world's literary titans, as well as original poetry by Angola's leading female poet, Ana Paula Tavares.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781933227139
Publisher:	Tagus Press
Publication date:	01/01/2010
Series:	Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	298
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

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).

Table of Contents

Introduction: “Never Again?”—Remembering Angola — Phillip Rothwell
E Agora José, Luandino Vieira? An Interview with José Luandino Vieira — Margarida Calafate Ribeiro
As portas de Luuanda — Ana Paula Tavares
Letras negras em folhas brancas: A escrita da História angolana por Antônio de Assis Júnior — Regina Claro
The Creole Elite and the Rise of Angolan Proto-Nationalism: 1880-1910 — Jacopo Corrado
Preliminary Considerations on European Forced Labor in Angola, 1880-1930: Individual Redemption and the “Effective Occupation” of the Colony — Timothy J. Coates
PHOTOS
Testimony to the Presence of a Woman in the Colonial Wars in Africa (1961-1974) — Margarida Calafate Ribeiro
The Literary Memory of the Colonial War in Angola — Isabel Moutinho
Jorge Arrimar's Long Journey Back to Angola: The Return of a Native Son — David Brookshaw
Subjects on a Voyage through Alterity — Laura Cavalcante Padilha
Revisitação do Orientalismo através da Literatura Angolana — Ana Maria Mão-de-Ferro Martinho
Telling the Nation: The Case of Angolan Literature via History and Geography — Livia Apa
A função catártica da memória na actual literatura angolana: O caso de Botelho de Vasconcelos — Inocência Mata
The Renaissance of Angolan Cinema — Fernando Arenas
From Peixefritismo to Yellow-bean Stew: Angolan National Cuisine in the Pot and in the Novel — Igor Cusack
Pepetela: Entre a Carnavalização e a Denúncia de um Tempo sem Heróis — Robson Dutra
Colonial Representation and Conquest in Pepetela's “As Cinco Vidas da Teresa” — Phyllis Peres
BOOK REVIEWS
Pedro Meira Monteiro. Um moralista nos trópicos: o visconde de Cairu e o duque de La Rochefoucauld. São Paulo: Boitempo and Fapesp, 2004. — André Botelho
Maria Helena Mateus and Ernesto d'Andrade. The Phonology of Portuguese. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. — José A. Elías-Ulloa
Rui Zink, ed. Até ao Oriente & outros contos para Wenceslau de Moraes. Lisboa: Dom Quixote, 2004. — Daniela Kato
Rosa Maria Martelo. Em Parte Incerta—Estudos de Poesia Portuguesa Moderna e Contemporânea. Porto: Campo das Letras, 2004. — Helena Lopes
Pedro Eiras. Esquecer Fausto—a fragmentação do sujeito em Raul Brandão, Fernando Pessoa, Herberto Helder e Maria Gabriela Llansol. Porto: Campo das Letras, 2005. — Luis Maffei
De São Paulo: cinco crônicas de Mário de Andrade, 1920-1921. Organização, introdução e notas de Telê Ancona Lopez. São Paulo: Editora Senac São Paulo, 2004. — Pedro Meira Monteiro
Eduardo Pitta. Fractura: A Condição Homossexual na Literatura Portuguesa Contemporânea. Coimbra: Angelus Novus, 2003. — Ana Reimão
Sérgio Paulo Guimarães de Sousa. Literatura & Cinema: Ensaios, Entrevistas, Bibliografia. Coimbra: Angelus Novus, 2003. — Ângela Sarmento
Margarida Calafate Ribeiro and Ana Paula Ferreira, eds. Fantasmas e Fantasias Imperiais no Imaginário Português Contemporâneo. Porto: Campo das Letras, 2003. — Claire Williams