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Tierra sonámbula

Autor: Mia Couto

Número de Páginas: 233

En Tierra sonámbula, considerada como una de las diez mejores novelas africanas del siglo XX, Mia Couto denuncia el terrible sufrimiento que conlleva cualquier conflicto bélico. « Tierra sonámbula es una de las obras africanas más originales que he leído.» Doris Lessing La guerra civil se recrudece en Mozambique en los años ochenta y la población huye de sus casas. El anciano Tuahir y Muidinga, un niño que fue rescatado de la fosa donde iba a ser enterrado, buscan refugio en un autobús calcinado. Entre los efectos personales de unode los pasajeros muertos, encuentran unos cuadernos que narran su vida. A medida que Muidinga los lee, esa historia y la suya propia parecen desarrollarse de manera paralela y discurrir entre la realidad y el sueño. La crítica ha dicho: « Tierra sonámbula es una novela original en la estructura y brillante en la narración. Puede ser considerada como una de las más destacadas obras de la literatura africana contemporánea.» Der Landbote «Con la primera novela de Mia Couto asistimos al nacimiento de una literatura sorprendente: hecha de historias míticas, mestizas en su inspiración y todavía más en su lengua. Una obra mágica que...

Global Impact of the Portuguese Language

Autor: Asela RodrÃguez-seda De Laguna

Número de Páginas: 310

Within the cultural and literary context of contemporary Portugal and Western literature, 1998 was unquestionably the year that Portuguese writing gained international recognition as Jos Saramago became the first Portuguese writer ever to receive the Nobel Prize in literature. Readers who had never thought about Portuguese letters began to consume his books and, most importantly, opted for expanding their reading lists to include other important writers not only from Portugal, but from Portuguese-speaking well beyond the borders of Portugal. Global Impact of the Portuguese Language is a collection of Portuguese writing that is as rich in content and broad in scope as the diversity of its topics and writing modes of its contributors. The book is divided into three major parts. Part 1, "Different Cultural Perspectives of Portuguese Writing," contains thirteen chapters in which the first and opening one, "Portugal: The New Frontier" ably sets the stage for the book by examining from a cultural perspective how Portugal, a peripheral country in the new world system, serves as a microcosm of the problems of cultural intercommunication in today's world. Subsequent chapters are grouped in ...

The Post-colonial Literature of Lusophone Africa

Autor: Patrick Chabal

Número de Páginas: 324

This work examines the Portuguese and crioulo literatures of the five African Portuguese-speaking countries: Angola; Cape Verde; Guinea Bissau; Mozambique; and Sao Tome and Principe. It offers an introduction to the cultural and historical context within which literature developed in Lusophone Africa, as well as a discussion of the prose and poetry published by the writers from these five countries since independence. As such, the volume is intended not only as a textbook for the student of the literatures of the five Lusophone countries, but also as a cultural and intellectual foundation for the specialist reader with an interest in the former Portuguese colonial empire.

Cine africano contemporáneo

Autor: Olivier Barlet

Número de Páginas: 522

Desde hace dos décadas se están produciendo profundas rupturas en los cines africanos por diferentes causas: una nueva relación con la realidad, renovadas estrategias estéticas y la aparición de un cine popular poscolonial. Olivier Barlet aborda en esta obra las cuestiones críticas que plantean estas evoluciones, ofreciendo una visión personal del desarrollo reciente de una cinematografía todavía poco conocida, pero que lucha por ocupar su lugar en el cine mundial. Este libro, que ha sido traducido también al inglés y al árabe, es una síntesis indispensable para desafiar las ideas preconcebidas y para enriquecer el enfoque del cine como arte crítico. “La labor de Olivier Barlet, incansable investigador y crítico apasionado de los cines africanos, es digna de elogio”. (Cahiers du Cinéma) “La nueva obra de referencia sobre todos los temas que aborda el cine en África”. (Slate Afrique) “Olivier Barlet es una enciclopedia viviente del cine africano”. (Jeune Afrique)

Directory of World Cinema: Africa

Autor: Sheila Petty

Número de Páginas: 424

Eschewing the postcolonial hubris that suggests Africa could only define itself in relation to its colonizers, a problem plaguing many studies published in the West on African cinema, this entry in the Directory of World Cinema series instead looks at African film as representing Africa for its own sake, values, and artistic choices. With a film industry divided by linguistic heritage, African directors do not have the luxury of producing comedies, thrillers, horror films, or even love stories, except perhaps as DVDs that do not travel far outside their country of production. Instead, African directors tend to cover serious sociopolitical ground, even under the cover of comedy, in the hopes of finding funds outside Africa. Contributors to this volume draw on filmic representations of the continent to consider the economic role of women, rural exodus, economic migration, refugees and diasporas, culture, religion and magic as well as representations of children, music, languages and symbols. A survey of national cinemas in one volume, Directory of World Cinema: Africa is a necessary addition to the bookshelf of any cinephile and world traveller.

Postcolonial African Writers

Autor: Siga Fatima Jagne , Pushpa Naidu Parekh

Número de Páginas: 560

This reference book surveys the richness of postcolonial African literature. The volume begins with an introductory essay on postcolonial criticism and African writing, then presents alphabetically arranged profiles of some 60 writers, including Chinua Achebe, Nadine Gordimer, Bessie Head, Doris Lessing, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Tahbar Ben Jelloun, among others. Each entry includes a brief biography, a discussion of major works and themes that appear in the author's writings, an overview of the critical response to the author's work, and a bibliography of primary and secondary sources. These profiles are written by expert contributors and reflect many different perspectives. The volume concludes with a selected general bibliography of the most important critical works on postcolonial African literature.

Historical Dictionary of Mozambique

Autor: Colin Darch

Número de Páginas: 587

The new edition of Historical Dictionary of Mozambique covers the Bantu expansion; the arrival of the Portuguese navigators and their str competition with local African power centers and coastal Arab-Swahili trading towns; the trade cycles of gold, ivory, and slaves; the establishment of the semi-Africanized prazos along the Zambezi Valley; “pacification” campaigns; and the period of Portuguese weakness in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when vast tracts of land were rented to concessionary companies. In the late colonial period the Salazar dictatorship tried to reassert Portuguese power, but after ten years of armed struggle for national liberation, Mozambique gained its independence in 1975. The book contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 600 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Mozambique.

Curriculum and the Generation of Utopia

Autor: João M. Paraskeva

Número de Páginas: 311

As a follow-up to Towards a Just Curriculum Theory and Curriculum Epistemicide , this volume illuminates the challenges and contradictions which have prevented critical curriculum theory from establishing itself as an alternative to dominant Western Eurocentric epistemologies. Curriculum and the Generation of Utopia re-visits the work of leading progressive theorists and draws on a complex range of epistemological perspectives from the Middle East, Africa, Southern Europe, and Latin America. Paraskeva illustrates how counter-dominant narratives have been suppressed by neoliberal dynamics through an exploration of key issues including: itinerant curriculum theory, globalization and internationalization, as well as utopianism. Foregrounding critical curriculum theory as a vector of de-colonization and de-centralization, the text puts forth Itinerant Curriculum Theory (ITC) as an alternative form of anti-colonial, theoretical engagement. This work forms an important addition to the literature surrounding critical curriculum theory. It will be of interest to post-graduate scholars, researchers and academics in the fields of curriculum studies, curriculum theory, and critical...

The Europa Directory of Literary Awards and Prizes

Autor: Europa

Número de Páginas: 533

Identity and Difference

Autor: Carolin Overhoff Ferreira

Número de Páginas: 263

Besides national productions, transnational films that result from agreements with ex-colonies now engage with the legacy of Portugal's colonial history and its powerful myths of cultural identity such as lusophony and lusotropicalism. This volume analyses the negotiations of ideas on identity and difference in both production modes.

Portuguese Decolonization in the Indian Ocean World

Autor: Pamila Gupta

Número de Páginas: 241

Pamila Gupta takes a unique approach to examining decolonization processes across Lusophone India and Southern Africa, focusing on Goa, Mozambique, Angola and South Africa, weaving together case studies using five interconnected themes. Gupta considers decolonization through the twined lenses of history and ethnography, accessed through written, oral, visual and eyewitness accounts of how people experienced the transfer of state power. She looks at the materiality of decolonization as a movement of peoples across vast oceanic spaces, demonstrating how it was a process of dispossession for both the Portuguese formerly in power and ordinary colonial citizens and subjects. She then discusses the production of race and class anxieties during decolonization, which took on a variety of forms but were often articulated through material objects. The book aims to move beyond linear histories of colonial independence by connecting its various regions using the theme of decolonization, offering a productive and new approach to writing post-national histories and ethnographies. Finally, Gupta demonstrates the value of using different source materials to access narratives of decolonization,...

Critical Transformative Educational Leadership and Policy Studies - A Reader

Autor: João M. Paraskeva

Número de Páginas: 721

A 2022 SPE Outstanding Book Award Winner Critical Transformative Educational Leadership and Policy Studies - A Reader is a comprehensive collection of critical contributions from most of the leading voices in the fields of educational leadership and educational policy studies, pushing back against the current neoliberal authoritarian environment. The volume offers alternative ways to perceive and to formulate education leadership and policy from a critical transformative perspective. Individual chapters discuss such topics as social justice in education; poverty, race and public education; counter-hegemonic education movements; the privatization of schools; and school reform and advocacy leadership, among others, all from a critical perspective. It is a crucial and timely volume for educators, school administrators, educational leaders, social activists, and union leaders concerned with the current state of our universities and our education system. Perfect for courses such as: Political Economy of Urban Education | Leadership and Policy Studies | Educational Policy and Reform | Politics of Education | Cultural Studies | Curriculum Theory and Development | Socio Historical...

Curriculum, Spirituality and Human Rights towards a Just Public Education

Autor: Rogério C. Venturini

Número de Páginas: 255

Curriculum, Spirituality, and Human Rights towards a Just Public Education examines the integration of spirituality—not religion—into U.S. public education and curriculum. The volume challenges celebratory ‘curricularized’ forms of human rights and frames spirituality as a counter-hegemonic human right. Drawing on autobiography as inquiry, Rogério Venturini unpacks his spiritual struggles—‘from within’—and experiences as a progressive spiritual person and educator. The volume examines the subjectivity and objectivity of spirituality, exploring the lethal social impact triggered by the absence of spirituality at the table of the so-called curriculum conversations. This volume places the struggle for spirituality in our field as a political struggle and challenges the epistimicidal nature of such conversations. Venturini draws on critical, anti-colonial, and decolonial frameworks and argues for an epistemological move towards an itinerant curriculum theory, one that responds to the world’s endless epistemological diversity and difference by assuming a non-derivative non-abyssal approach.

Apartheid Narratives

Autor: Nahem Yousaf

Número de Páginas: 244

In an engaging and dynamic collection of essays on South African writing, an international cast of contributors pay detailed attention to the shifting parameters of scholarly debates on apartheid and the apartheid era. Investigating a range of literary and critical perspectives on a period that shaped the literature of South Africa for much of the twentieth century, the contributors offer a rich survey. The volume focuses on internationally acclaimed writers (Nadine Gordimer and J.M. Coetzee) as well as those writers who are yet to receive sustained critical attention (Mtutuzeli Matshoba, Alex La Guma, Bessie Head, Ahmed Essop, Ronnie Govender). Apartheid Narratives will be welcomed by academics and students of South African writing as a stimulating collection which maps the literary terrain of apartheid.

Contemporary African Cinema

Autor: Olivier Barlet

Número de Páginas: 420

African and notably sub-Saharan African film’s relative eclipse on the international scene in the early twenty-first century does not transcend the growth within the African genre. This time period has seen African cinema forging a new relationship with the real and implementing new aesthetic strategies, as well as the emergence of a post-colonial popular cinema. Drawing on more than 1,500 articles, reviews, and interviews written over the past fifteen years, Olivier Barlet identifies the critical questions brought about by the evolution of African cinema. In the process, he offers us a personal and passionate vision, making this book an indispensable sum of thought that challenges preconceived ideas and enriches an approach to cinema as a critical art.

Decolonizing Interpretive Research

Autor: Antonia Darder

Número de Páginas: 188

To what extent do Western political and economic interests distort perceptions and affect the Western production of research about the other? The concept of 'colonializing epistemologies' describes how knowledges outside the Western purview are often not only rendered invisible but either absorbed or destroyed. Decolonizing Interpretive Research outlines a form of oppositional study that undertakes a critical analysis of bodies of knowledge in any field that engages with issues related to the lives and survival of those deemed as other. It focuses on creating intellectual spaces that will facilitate new readings of the world and lead toward change, both in theory and practice. The book begins by conceptualizing the various aspects of the decolonizing interpretive research approach for the reader, and the following six chapters each focus on one of these issues, grounded in a specific decolonizing interpretive study. With a foreword by Linda Tuhiwai Smith, this book will allow readers to not only engage with the conceptual framework of this decolonizing methodology but will also give them access to examples of how the methodology has informed decolonizing interpretive studies in...

Reclaiming the Teaching Discourse in Higher Education

Autor: Ian M. Kinchin

Número de Páginas: 233

This book examines university teaching to encourage a move away from the singular lens of neoliberalism towards more a pluralistic stance that inspires a healthy diversity of theories and practices. University teaching is dominated by neoliberal cultures of measurement, consumerism and deficit, generating a monocultural narrative that disenfranchises the higher education teaching community. Collaborative communities of support are now perceived as performative regimes of surveillance, and existing injustices in the education system have been amplified by institutional responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. This book offers a reappraisal of the current state of university teaching, and re-imaginings of potential futures. Inspired by emerging perspectives in educational research and building upon Biesta's notion of the 'rediscovery of teaching', the book encourages an escape from accepted wisdom, liberating teaching from the bonds of reductive binary and linear thinking, and accepting the need for a plurality of theoretical perspectives. While universities use popular terms such as student-centredness, global excellence, active learning, and so on, and will highlight key performance...

English in Africa

Autor: Alamin M. Mazrui

Número de Páginas: 156

This text offers a critical examination of aspects of the politics of the role of English in Africa and its Diaspora. It looks at its changed location in the post-Cold War era and the challenges it poses to the enduring quest for intellectual liberation, pan-Africanism and Afrocentricity. The study also explores the spaces and possibilities for appropriating the language towards a counter-hegemonic African-centred agenda under the present global order.

Fluid Networks and Hegemonic Powers in the Western Indian Ocean

Autor: Collectif

Número de Páginas: 198

The present volume sets forth to analyse illustrative aspects of the deep-rooted immersion of the populations of the eastern coasts of Africa in the vast network of commercial, cultural and religious interactions that extend to the Middle-East and the Indian subcontinent, as well as the long-time involvement of various exogenous military, administrative and economic powers (Ottoman, Omani, Portuguese, Dutch, British, French and, more recently, European-Americans).

The Encyclopedia of the Novel

Autor: Peter Melville Logan , Olakunle George , Susan Hegeman , Efraín Kristal

Número de Páginas: 1017

Now available in a single volume paperback, this advanced reference resource for the novel and novel theory offers authoritative accounts of the history, terminology, and genre of the novel, in over 140 articles of 500-7,000 words. Entries explore the history and tradition of the novel in different areas of the world; formal elements of the novel (story, plot, character, narrator); technical aspects of the genre (such as realism, narrative structure and style); subgenres, including the bildungsroman and the graphic novel; theoretical problems, such as definitions of the novel; book history; and the novel's relationship to other arts and disciplines. The Encyclopedia is arranged in A-Z format and features entries from an international cast of over 140 scholars, overseen by an advisory board of 37 leading specialists in the field, making this the most authoritative reference resource available on the novel. This essential reference, now available in an easy-to-use, fully indexed single volume paperback, will be a vital addition to the libraries of literature students and scholars everywhere.

International Who's Who in Poetry 2005

Autor: Europa Publications

Número de Páginas: 1787

Provides up-to-date profiles on the careers of leading and emerging poets.

African Literature

Autor: Jonathan P. Smithe

Número de Páginas: 152

African literature, like the continent itself is enormous and diverse. East Africa's literature is different from West Africa's which is quite different from South Africa's which has different influences on it than North Africa's. Africa's literature is based on a widespread heritage of oral literature, some of which has now been recorded. Arabic influence can be detected as well as European, especially French and English. Legends, myths, proverbs, riddles and folktales form the mother load of the oral literature. This book presents an overview of African literature as well as a comprehensive bibliography, primarily of English language sources. Accessed by subject, author and title indexes.

African and Diaspora Aesthetics

Autor: Sarah Nuttall

Número de Páginas: 416

In Cameroon, a monumental "statue of liberty" is made from scrap metal. In Congo, a thriving popular music incorporates piercing screams and carnal dances. When these and other instantiations of the aesthetics of Africa and its diasporas are taken into account, how are ideas of beauty reconfigured? Scholars and artists take up that question in this invigorating, lavishly illustrated collection, which includes more than one hundred color images. Exploring sculpture, music, fiction, food, photography, fashion, and urban design, the contributors engage with and depart from canonical aesthetic theories as they demonstrate that beauty cannot be understood apart from ugliness. Highlighting how ideas of beauty are manifest and how they mutate, travel, and combine across time and distance, continental and diasporic writers examine the work of a Senegalese sculptor inspired by Leni Riefenstahl's photographs of Nuba warriors; a rich Afro-Brazilian aesthetic incorporating aspects of African, Jamaican, and American cultures; and African Americans' Africanization of the Santería movement in the United States. They consider the fraught, intricate spaces of the urban landscape in postcolonial...

International Who's Who in Poetry 2004

Autor: Europa Publications

Número de Páginas: 536

Provides up-to-date profiles on the careers of leading and emerging poets.

El África que viene

Autor: Antoni Castel

Número de Páginas: 316

Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies

Número de Páginas: 318

Quimera

Número de Páginas: 1078

Bibliografía española

Número de Páginas: 1478

Colgada de un piolín

Autor: Mirtha Fernández Pucurull

Número de Páginas: 212

Literaturas africanas

Autor: Verónica Pereyra , Luis María Mora

Número de Páginas: 360

A Práxis Pedagógica em Tempos de Neoliberalismo:

Autor: Cornélio Raimundo Mucache

Número de Páginas: 201

A práxis pedagógica em tempos de neoliberalismo: um ensaio filosófico de educação insere-se no contexto das reflexões sobre a filosofia da libertação latino-americana. A partir da filosofia de libertação buscou-se neste ensaio desenvolver uma crítica ao ethos capitalista e seu processo de fetichização. A "pedagógica" para a atualidade propõe-se como um caminho possível para a transformação da sociedade.

Humboldt

Número de Páginas: 586

Revista de filología románica

Número de Páginas: 444

Studies in Witchcraft, Magic, War, and Peace in Africa

Autor: Beatrice Nicolini

Número de Páginas: 428

This collection of essays offers opportunities towards a better understanding of African societies and their historical role in numerous political and military conflicts, and also within peace-building processes. This book broadens the focus from invocations of the supernatural in military and political mobilizations to rituals of healing in post-conflict societies.

Viagens Paralelas

Autor: Jeremias Alberto Zunguze

Número de Páginas: 238

African Publishing Review

Número de Páginas: 346

West Africa

Número de Páginas: 996

Canteiro de Histórias: textos sobre aprendizagem histórica

Autor: Dulceli Estacheski , Everton Crema , José Maria Neto , André Bueno

Número de Páginas: 230

Canteiro de Histórias é a edição eletrônica das conferências apresentadas no 3º Simpósio Eletrônico Internacional de Ensino de História. Nessa terceira edição do evento, trazemos as discussões mais recentes sobre o Ensino e a Aprendizagem histórica no Brasil. Em meio a crises dos mais diversos tipos – que envolvem mesmo a supressão da História nos currículos – o desafio de levar o conhecimento histórico a nossa sociedade continua. Talvez, em muitos anos, a questão de como ensinar História nunca foi tão premente. O valor estratégico, ético e cultural da História tem sido cada vez mais evidenciado, diante das inúmeras tentativas de aboli-la do ensino. Essa situação nos coloca diante dos inúmeros desafios que temos que encarar; e como ensinamos história? O que temos ensinado? Não estarão os próprios historiadores divididos ou distantes da sociedade? O que nos falta, e o que temos feito? Tantas perguntas atravessam longas distâncias, e nos trazem, nesse livro, nossos convidados de além mar. Todas as opiniões são fundamentais. É momento, mais do que nunca, de compartilhar experiências, dúvidas e pontos de vista. E daqui, de nossa pátria tão...