The Mozambican Modern Ghost Story (1866-2006); The Genealogy of a Genre

ISBN-13: 9781789975413 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 218 str.

Paulo De Medeiros; Cláudia Pazos-Alonso; Peter J. Maurits

Opis

This is the first book to analyse the Mozambican modern ghost story. It examines supernatural works by several Mozambican authors to discuss the relation of the genre to colonial capitalism, neoliberalism, and globalization and world-literature debates.

Spis treści

Contents: Thesis and terms - The modern ghost story - Emergence of the Mozambican modern ghost story - The Mozambican modern ghost story - Re-emergence of the Mozambican modern ghost story.

O autorze

Peter J. Maurits is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. His primary research interests are the way in which literary forms, and particularly genres, move through the world-literary system and change in the process. He has written about postcolonial Europe, the British and Mozambican modern ghost story, and futurism, and he is currently working on a book about African science fiction.