Postcolonial Nation and Narrative III: Literature & Cinema: Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau and São Tomé E Príncipe

ISBN-13: 9781787075818 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 326 str.

Ana Mafalda Leite; Hilary Owen; Ellen Sapega

Opis

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 makes a valuable contribution to debates on postcolonialism, nation and identity in Portuguese-speaking Africa.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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).