Literary Connections Between South Africa and the Lusophone World
Literary Connections between South Africa and the Lusophone World connects literatures and cultures of South Africa and the Portuguese-speaking nations of Africa and beyond, and is set within literary and cultural studies. The chapters gathered in this volume reinforce the critical and ongoing conversations in comparative and world literature from perspectives of the South. It outlines some possible theoretical and methodological starting points for a comparative framework that targets, transnationally, literatures from the South. This volume is an additional step to renew the critical potentialities of comparative literary studies (Spivak 2009) as well as of humanistic criticism itself (Said 2004) as South Africa and the Lusophone world (except its former colonizer, Portugal) are outside the spatial and cultural dimension usually defined as European and/or North American. In this sense and due to the evident geographical and socio-historical links between these regions, critical scholarship on their literary connections can contribute to unprecedented perspectives of representational practices within a broader contextual dimension, and in so doing, provides the emergence of what Boaventura de Sousa Santos called “epistemologies of the South” (Santos 2016), as it considers cultural exchanges in the space of so-called “overlapping territories” and “intertwined histories” (Said 1993).

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Literary Connections Between South Africa and the Lusophone World
Literary Connections between South Africa and the Lusophone World connects literatures and cultures of South Africa and the Portuguese-speaking nations of Africa and beyond, and is set within literary and cultural studies. The chapters gathered in this volume reinforce the critical and ongoing conversations in comparative and world literature from perspectives of the South. It outlines some possible theoretical and methodological starting points for a comparative framework that targets, transnationally, literatures from the South. This volume is an additional step to renew the critical potentialities of comparative literary studies (Spivak 2009) as well as of humanistic criticism itself (Said 2004) as South Africa and the Lusophone world (except its former colonizer, Portugal) are outside the spatial and cultural dimension usually defined as European and/or North American. In this sense and due to the evident geographical and socio-historical links between these regions, critical scholarship on their literary connections can contribute to unprecedented perspectives of representational practices within a broader contextual dimension, and in so doing, provides the emergence of what Boaventura de Sousa Santos called “epistemologies of the South” (Santos 2016), as it considers cultural exchanges in the space of so-called “overlapping territories” and “intertwined histories” (Said 1993).

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Literary Connections between South Africa and the Lusophone World connects literatures and cultures of South Africa and the Portuguese-speaking nations of Africa and beyond, and is set within literary and cultural studies. The chapters gathered in this volume reinforce the critical and ongoing conversations in comparative and world literature from perspectives of the South. It outlines some possible theoretical and methodological starting points for a comparative framework that targets, transnationally, literatures from the South. This volume is an additional step to renew the critical potentialities of comparative literary studies (Spivak 2009) as well as of humanistic criticism itself (Said 2004) as South Africa and the Lusophone world (except its former colonizer, Portugal) are outside the spatial and cultural dimension usually defined as European and/or North American. In this sense and due to the evident geographical and socio-historical links between these regions, critical scholarship on their literary connections can contribute to unprecedented perspectives of representational practices within a broader contextual dimension, and in so doing, provides the emergence of what Boaventura de Sousa Santos called “epistemologies of the South” (Santos 2016), as it considers cultural exchanges in the space of so-called “overlapping territories” and “intertwined histories” (Said 1993).


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781666916423
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 10/12/2022
Pages: 168
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

Anita de Melo is senior lecturer in Portuguese and literature at the University of Cape Town.

Ludmylla Lima is associate professor of literatures in Portuguese Language at UNILAB – Bahia.

John T. Maddox IV is associate professor of Spanish and African American studies at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter One: Revisiting the Adamastor Myth in Fernando Pessoa’s “O Mostrengo” and André Brink’s The First Life Of Adamastor, Paulo Ferreira

Chapter Two: A Thread of Gold: Fernando Pessoa, Hubert Jennings, and Classical Education in Durban, Jeffrey Murray

Chapter Three: Van Der Post’s Postcolonial Melancholia and Zimler’s Reparational Mourning in Novels on the San, John T. Maddox IV

Chapter Four: Ruy Duarte De Carvalho’s Border Literature in As paisagens propícias, Alice Girotto

Chapter Five: Why Do They Kill Us?: The Strange Neighborhood and Necropolitics in Lília Momplé’s Novel Neighbours, Nilza Laice

Chapter Six: Last Dinner at Polana: Peter Wilhelm’s L.M., Ludmylla Lima

Chapter Seven: The Degrading Figuration of the Intellectual on the Periphery of Capitalism: A Comparative Study of Chico Buarque’s Essa Gente and J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace, Edvaldo A. Bergamo

Chapter Eight: Dissident Authorship in Post-Colonial Mozambique and Post-Apartheid South Africa: The Cases Of António Quadros and J. M. Coetzee, Tom Stennett

Chapter Nine: Narrating the World from Africa: João Paulo Borges Coelho and J. M. Coetzee, Marta Banasiak

Afterword

About the Contributors

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