Narrating the Postcolonial Nation

Ana Mafalda Leite is professor of African literature 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 recent publications include Oralidades & Escritas Pós-Coloniais (2012).Hilary Owen is professor of Portuguese and African studies at the University of Manchester. Her publications include Mother Africa, Father Marx: Women’s Writings in Mozambique (2007) and Antigone’s Daughters? Gender, Genealogy, and the Politics of Authorship in Twentieth-Century Portuguese Women’s Writing (with Cláudia Pazos-Alonso, 2011). Rita Chaves is professor in African literature at the University of São Paulo. She is on the editorial board of Revista de Letras and Via Atlântica. Among her recent publications are Mia Couto: O desejo de contar e de inventar (with Fernanda Cavacas and Tânia Macedo, 2010) and Portanto … Pepetela (with Tânia Macedo, 2009). Livia Apa is studying towards a doctorate in African literature at the University of Lisbon. She has translated into Italian works by Mia Couto, Ruy Duarte de Carvalho, Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos and Ana Luísa Amaral and has recently published Abitare la lingua: Riflessioni sulla lingua portoghese in Angola (2010).

• Contents: Iain Chambers: Power, language and the poetics of the postcolonial – Gilberto Matusse: The Narrative of the Nation in Craveirinha – Carmen Tindó Secco: The Other Feet of History: A Reading of Choriro by Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa and O Outro Pé da Sereia by Mia Couto – Ana Mafalda Leite: Rewriting the Thresholds of History in Order to Re-Think the Nation – Inocência Mata: The Memory of Colonization and the Sentence of the Future in the Figuration of the Nation – Sheila Khan: Utopias and Aporias: The Calibre of a Nation’s Dreams – Laura Cavalcante Padilha: Novels as Travel Diaries: The Case of Angola – Rita Chaves: Ruy Duarte de Carvalho’s Desmedida: The Voyage as Synthesis and Invention – Kamila Krakowska: The Voyages of the Post-Colonial Nations in Estação das Chuvas and Terra Sonâmbula – Giulia Spinuzza: The Reconfiguration of the Nation in Eduardo White’s Janela para Oriente – Hilary Owen: Women on the Edge of a Nervous Empire in Paulina Chiziane and Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa – Nazir Ahmed Can: A House of Marked Cards: The Public Discourse of the Political Elite in the Novels of João Paulo Borges Coelho – Tania Macedo: Reflection and Aesthetic Development in the Work of Manuel Rui – Livia Apa: Nation and Narration: What does African Cinema Tell Us? – Jessica Falconi: Some Thoughts around the Idea of the invention of the Lusofonia Narratives.