A Companion to João Paulo Borges Coelho

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. The book advances new critical paths within Portuguese-speaking literary studies from a comparative perspective.

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.

Auteur

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.

Résumé

«This companion to João 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 Jerónimo Pizarro, University of the Andes, Colombia)

«Since 2003, Mozambican author João 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)

Contenu

CONTENTS: João Paulo Borges Coelho: A Short Biography - João Paulo Borges Coelho: The Enchanted Cloth - Paolo Israel: The Archive and the Fable: Trajectory of a Mozambican Historian - Nazir Ahmed Can: Poetics and Politics of Memory: Notes on João Paulo Borges Coelho's Novels - Ana Mafalda Leite: Narratives of the Indian Ocean in the Writing of João Paulo Borges Coelho: A Transnational Geography - Rui Gonçalves Miranda - History, Literature, and the Indices of the Ocean: Force of Signification in Borges Coelho's 'A força do mar de Agosto' - Jessica Falconi: The Tourism Imaginary in Hinyambaan - Orlando Grossegesse: A Parody of Final Redemption: The Uses of Geopolitical Fiction in O Olho de Hertzog - Elena Brugioni: Of Clues, Traces, and Minor Histories: Theorizing the Genre of Historical Novel in Rainhas da Noite - Emanuelle Santos: Towards a World-Literary Aesthetics of Postcolonial Memory: Rainhas da Noite by João Paulo Borges Coelho - Paulo de Medeiros: The Drowning of Time: Ecological Catastrophe, Dialectics, and Allegorical Realism in João Paulo Borges Coelho's Ponta**Gea and Água: Uma novela rural .