The worlds of Mia Couto / Kristian van Haesendonck [editor].
| Other author | Haesendonck, Kristian van, 1974- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Peter Lang Ltd, 2020. |
| Description | 1 online resource |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Series | Reconfiguring identities in the Portuguese-speaking world, 2235-0144 ; vol 15 Reconfiguring identities in the Portuguese-speaking world ; vol. 15 2235-0144. UNAUTHORIZED |
| Contents | Introduction : Mia Couto, from Mozambique to the World -- Mia Couto and the Antinomies of World-Literature / Paulo de Medeiros -- From Nation to Imagination : Mia Couto and Language in a Comparative Perspective / David Brookshaw -- Mia Couto and his African context : Invention of an origin / Ewa A. Łukaszyk -- Worlds of Mia Couto : the Aesthetic of the Global / Peter J. Maurits -- Literary Ethnographies : Narrating the Nation in Terra Sonâmbula and Macunaîma / Kamila Krakowska -- Female Resistance and Engagement in Combating Intersecting Powers of Colonialisms and Patriarchies in Mia Couto's Woman of the Ashes and Assia Djebar's Children of the New World / Irene Marques -- Under the Frangipani by Mia Couto : Myth and Poetics of Relation / Celina Martins -- The Ghosts of Ngungunyane : Constructing an ambivalent hero / Fernanda Vilar -- Mixing wor(l)ds: An Interview with Mia Couto / Kristian Van Haesendonck. |
| Abstract | "Mia Couto has been recognized internationally as one of the most important African authors of our times. His rapidly growing opus shifts fluidly between various modes of writing, mixing historical elements with poetic and autobiographic ones, in often unpredictable and intellectually challenging ways. With each new book, the writer multiplies various original wor(l)ds, creating new challenges for his readers. Each of Couto's texts opens up a rhizomic world which in turn contains (an)other world(s), inviting us to review and adjust our earlier interpretations of his oeuvre as a whole. In The Worlds of Mia Couto a diverse group of literary experts sets out to explore Mia Couto's oeuvre in relation to the imaginary worlds created by the author, but also to the complex geographical, cultural and literary contexts that are woven into the texture of his work. While Couto has increasingly received scholarly attention, the international connections and connectivities of his work have been largely neglected so far. The Worlds of Mia Couto endeavors to show that Couto's work can be read beyond its particular Mozambican and Lusophone context, by paying attention to the broader African and global literary contexts, including Latin America, Asia and Europe. Mia Couto's work is, for instance, of particular interest to rethink, from the margins, established concepts of 'World-literature', 'globalization' and the 'postcolonial'. The various chapters of The Worlds of Mia Couto focus thus on some of the -often unexpected- international connections across his fictional and non-fictional work beyond the Lusophone literary space, crossing cultural, linguistic and gender boundaries"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
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| Issued in other form | Print version: The worlds of Mia Couto New York : Peter Lang Ltd, 2020. 9781788745949 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2019048760 |
| ISBN | 9781788745970 (mobi) |
| ISBN | 9781788745956 (ebook) |
| ISBN | 9781788745963 (epub) |
| ISBN | (paperback) |
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