Postcolonial Nation and Narrative III: Literature & Cinema

This volume investigates literary and cinematographic narratives from Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau and Sao Tome and Principe, analysing the different ways in which social and cultural experience is represented in postcolonial contexts. It continues and completes the exploration of the postcolonial imaginary and identity of Portuguese-speaking Africa presented in the earlier volume Narrating the Postcolonial Nation: Mapping Angola and Mozambique (2014).

Memory, history, migration and diaspora are core notions in the recreation and reconceptualization of the nation and its identities in Capeverdian, Guinean and Saotomean literary and cinematographic culture. Acknowledging that the idea of the postcolonial nation intersects with other social, political, cultural and historical categories, this book scrutinizes written and visual representations of the nation from a wide range of inter- and transdisciplinary perspectives, including literary and film studies, gender studies, sociology, and post-colonial and cultural studies. It makes a valuable contribution to current debates on postcolonialism, nation and identity in these former Portuguese colonies.

Auteur

ANA MAFALDA LEITE is Associate Professor at the University of Lisbon. Her areas of research include Mozambican literature, African cultures and literatures in the Portuguese language, oral literature and postcolonial studies. Her publications include Oralidades & Escritas Pós-Coloniais (2012).

HILARY OWEN is Professor of Portuguese and African Studies at the University of Manchester. Her most recent publication, with Claudia Pazos Alonso, is Antigone's Daughters?: Gender, Genealogy, and the Politics of Authorship in Twentieth-Century Portuguese Women's Writing.

ELLEN W. SAPEGA is Professor of Portuguese and Director of the Center for European Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her most recent publication is Consensus and Debate in Salazar's Portugal: Visual and Literary Negotiations of the National Text (2008).

CARMEN TINDÓ SECCO is Professor of African Literatures in the Portuguese Language at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Her publications include *A magia das letras africanas (*2003), *Brasil/África: como se o mar fosse mentira (2003) and África & Brasil - letras em laços (*2010).

Contenu

CONTENTS: Ana Mafalda Leite: Introduction: Postcolonial Nation and Narrative, Cinema and Literature - Paulo de Medeiros: Lusophone Cinemas in Transnational Perspective - Ute Fendler: African Cinema: A Transnational Cinema?: The Decolonial Cinema of Flora Gomes - Ellen W. Sapega: The 'Sounds' of Lusophony: The Question of Language in Two Films with Cape Verdean Themes - Sheila Khan: Between Realities and Scenarios: Duty and Authority to Narrate the Nation between Images - Carmen Lúcia Tindó Secco: José Carlos Schwarz's Poetics and the Guinean Nation: Relations between Cinema, Literature, Music, Memory and History - Elena Brugioni: The Prayers of Mansata by Abdulai Sila: Performing the Postcolony - Joana Passos: Flora Gomes: Resilient Hope on Scant Chances - Jusciele Conceição Almeida de Oliveira and Mirian Tavares: Authorial Features in African Cinema: The Case of the Guinean Flora Gomes - Mark Sabine: Where Is Cabral? Postnational Culture and Liberation in Nha fala - Jane Tutikian: When the Chess Board Had Only White Pieces: A Study of Ilhéu de Contenda, the Book and the Film - Hilary Owen: In Search of the White Father: Filming the Island of Fogo in the Cinema of Pedro Costa and Leão Lopes - Doris Wieser: Wreckage, Fragments and Non-Places: The Life of Cape Verdean Immigrants in Cavalo Dinheiro by Pedro Costa - Jessica Falconi: Intertwining Histories: Documentary Narratives on São Tomé and Cape Verde - Kamila Krakowska: Zooming in on the Edges: Narratives of the Santomean Nation in the Documentaries of Ângelo Torres - Emanuelle Santos: After Nationalism: Literary Configurations of Contemporary Postcolonialities in Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau and São Tomé e Príncipe - Luís Madureira: 'Eva das Mil Pessoas': Politics and Hyper-sexuality in Germano Almeida's Eva