"Represents the first attempt to bring together and analyze under a cogent theoretical framework the works of the four most prominent Angolan fiction writers living today. . . . Highly recommended."--Ana Paula Ferreira, University of California, Irvine

"Original and provocative readings of writers who are] unquestionably the most important figures in current Angolan narrative fiction."--Luis Madureira, University of Wisconsin, Madison

In the first volume devoted to the work of contemporary Angolan writers, Phyllis Peres analyzes the ways in which four writers--Luandino Vieira,...