Overview
This companion offers a critical overview of a great part of the literary oeuvre of the acclaimed Mozambican writer and historian João Paulo Borges Coelho. It focuses on a multiplicity of elements central to his literary project, underscoring the originality and complexity of one of the most prominent authors from the Portuguese-speaking world. With contributions from scholars hailing from different academic disciplines including history, this collection offers a compelling and original reading of Borges Coelho’s fictional work, engaging with current critical debates in the fields of literary theory, postcolonial studies, world-literature, and eco-criticism. The book advances new critical paths within Portuguese-speaking literary studies from a comparative perspective. At the same time it is addressed to a variety of scholars and advanced students in other, related fields.
Full Product Details
Author: Cláudia Pazos-Alonso ,
Paulo de Medeiros ,
Elena Brugioni ,
Orlando Grossegesse
Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd
Imprint: Peter Lang Ltd
Edition: New edition
Volume: 14
Weight: 0.400kg
ISBN: 9781787079861
ISBN 10: 1787079864
Pages: 266
Publication Date: 24 March 2020
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
This companion to Joao Paulo Borges Coelho's historical and fictional work, the first of its kind in English, represents an inestimable and decisive contribution to scholarship on the work of one of the most prominent writers from Mozambique. It will be an indispensable help in teaching any of Borges Coelho's works and in addressing their postcolonial political dimension. (Professor Jeronimo Pizarro, University of the Andes, Colombia) Since 2003, Mozambican author Joao Paulo Borges Coelho has produced a rich corpus of fiction that delivers a nuanced portrait of his country's past and its present. This comprehensive volume, which includes an English translation of one of his stories, performs an invaluable service by situating Borges Coelho's work in a national and transnational context. The various theoretical approaches presented here successfully establish Borges Coelho as one of the leading contemporary authors of the Portuguese-speaking world. (Professor Ellen W. Sapega, University of Wisconsin - Madison)
Author Information
Elena Brugioni is Assistant Professor in African literatures and postcolonial theory in the Department of Literary Theory at the University of Campinas (Brazil) and Lecturer in the Graduate Program in Literary Theory and History at Unicamp. Orlando Grossegesse is Professor of German and Comparative Literary Studies at the Institute of Arts and Humanities at the University of Minho (Braga). Paulo de Medeiros is Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick.
