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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 Camoes'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 Jose 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.

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Author:   Phillip Rothwell
Publisher:   University of Massachusetts Press
Imprint:   Tagus Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.30cm
Weight:   0.525kg
ISBN:  

9781933227139

ISBN 10:   1933227133
Pages:   298
Publication Date:   30 January 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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

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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).

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