Kristian Van Haesendonck is an Associate Professor and Researcher at the Language and Culture Research Center, University of Sanya (P.R.C.). He specialises in comparative Spanish American, postcolonial Caribbean and Lusophone African literatures. He taught comparative Latin American and postcolonial Caribbean literatures and cultures at universities in the Netherlands (Leiden), Belgium (Antwerp, Ghent), Portugal (Lisbon), Sweden (Växjö) and the United States (Princeton, Villanova). He is the author of Postcolonial Archipelagos: Essays on Hispanic Caribbean and Lusophone African Literatures (Peter Lang) and ¿Encanto o espanto? Identidad y nación en la novela puertorriqueña actual (Vervuert-Iberoamericana), and editor of Going Caribbean! New Perspectives on Caribbean Literature and Art (Humus) and Caribbeing: Comparing Caribbean Literatures and Cultures (Rodopi).

• Contents: Kristian Van Haesendonck: Introduction: Mia Couto, from Mozambique to the World – Worlding Mia Couto – Paulo de Medeiros: Mia Couto and the Antinomies of World-Literature – David Brookshaw: From Nation to Imagination: Mia Couto and Language in a Comparative Perspective – Ewa A. Łukaszyk: Mia Couto and his African Context: Invention of an Origin – Peter J. Maurits: Worlds of Mia Couto: The Aesthetic of the Global – Mia Couto’s Worlds – Kamila Krakowska Rodrigues: Literary Ethnographies: The Idea of Nation and Writing Back in Terra Sonâmbula and Macunaíma – Irene Marques: Female Resistance and Engagement in Combating Intersecting Powers of Colonialisms and Patriarchies in Mia Couto’s Woman of the Ashes – Celina Martins: Under the Frangipani by Mia Couto: Myth and Poetics of Relation – Fernanda Vilar: The Ghosts of Ngungunyane: Constructing an Ambivalent Hero – Mixing Wor(l)ds – Kristian Van Haesendonck: An Interview with Mia Couto.

«Year by year, Mia Couto has found increasing numbers of readers worldwide. Yet, his subtle, paradoxical and often playful oeuvre remains insuffi ciently understood,especially in the dominant Anglophone fi eld of literary criticism. The Worlds of MiaCouto makes in this context a crucial intervention: theoretically astute, wide-rangingand deeply knowledgeable, the essays in this volume make it clear why no one with aninterest in world literature or African literature today can afford to ignore this LusophoneMozambican writer.» (Stefan Helgesson, Stockholm University)

Kristian Van Haesendonck is an Associate Professor and Researcher at the Language and Culture Research Center, University of Sanya (P.R.C.). He specialises in comparative Spanish American, postcolonial Caribbean and Lusophone African literatures. He taught comparative Latin American and postcolonial Caribbean literatures and cultures at universities in the Netherlands (Leiden), Belgium (Antwerp, Ghent), Portugal (Lisbon), Sweden (Växjö) and the United States (Princeton, Villanova). He is the author of Postcolonial Archipelagos: Essays on Hispanic Caribbean and Lusophone African Literatures (Peter Lang) and ¿Encanto o espanto? Identidad y nación en la novela puertorriqueña actual (Vervuert-Iberoamericana), and editor of Going Caribbean! New Perspectives on Caribbean Literature and Art (Humus) and Caribbeing: Comparing Caribbean Literatures and Cultures (Rodopi).

• Contents: Kristian Van Haesendonck: Introduction: Mia Couto, from Mozambique to the World – Worlding Mia Couto – Paulo de Medeiros: Mia Couto and the Antinomies of World-Literature – David Brookshaw: From Nation to Imagination: Mia Couto and Language in a Comparative Perspective – Ewa A. Łukaszyk: Mia Couto and his African Context: Invention of an Origin – Peter J. Maurits: Worlds of Mia Couto: The Aesthetic of the Global – Mia Couto’s Worlds – Kamila Krakowska Rodrigues: Literary Ethnographies: The Idea of Nation and Writing Back in Terra Sonâmbula and Macunaíma – Irene Marques: Female Resistance and Engagement in Combating Intersecting Powers of Colonialisms and Patriarchies in Mia Couto’s Woman of the Ashes – Celina Martins: Under the Frangipani by Mia Couto: Myth and Poetics of Relation – Fernanda Vilar: The Ghosts of Ngungunyane: Constructing an Ambivalent Hero – Mixing Wor(l)ds – Kristian Van Haesendonck: An Interview with Mia Couto.

«Year by year, Mia Couto has found increasing numbers of readers worldwide. Yet, his subtle, paradoxical and often playful oeuvre remains insuffi ciently understood,especially in the dominant Anglophone fi eld of literary criticism. The Worlds of MiaCouto makes in this context a crucial intervention: theoretically astute, wide-rangingand deeply knowledgeable, the essays in this volume make it clear why no one with aninterest in world literature or African literature today can afford to ignore this LusophoneMozambican writer.» (Stefan Helgesson, Stockholm University)

Kristian Van Haesendonck is an Associate Professor and Researcher at the Language and Culture Research Center, University of Sanya (P.R.C.). He specialises in comparative Spanish American, postcolonial Caribbean and Lusophone African literatures. He taught comparative Latin American and postcolonial Caribbean literatures and cultures at universities in the Netherlands (Leiden), Belgium (Antwerp, Ghent), Portugal (Lisbon), Sweden (Växjö) and the United States (Princeton, Villanova). He is the author of Postcolonial Archipelagos: Essays on Hispanic Caribbean and Lusophone African Literatures (Peter Lang) and ¿Encanto o espanto? Identidad y nación en la novela puertorriqueña actual (Vervuert-Iberoamericana), and editor of Going Caribbean! New Perspectives on Caribbean Literature and Art (Humus) and Caribbeing: Comparing Caribbean Literatures and Cultures (Rodopi).

• Contents: Kristian Van Haesendonck: Introduction: Mia Couto, from Mozambique to the World – Worlding Mia Couto – Paulo de Medeiros: Mia Couto and the Antinomies of World-Literature – David Brookshaw: From Nation to Imagination: Mia Couto and Language in a Comparative Perspective – Ewa A. Łukaszyk: Mia Couto and his African Context: Invention of an Origin – Peter J. Maurits: Worlds of Mia Couto: The Aesthetic of the Global – Mia Couto’s Worlds – Kamila Krakowska Rodrigues: Literary Ethnographies: The Idea of Nation and Writing Back in Terra Sonâmbula and Macunaíma – Irene Marques: Female Resistance and Engagement in Combating Intersecting Powers of Colonialisms and Patriarchies in Mia Couto’s Woman of the Ashes – Celina Martins: Under the Frangipani by Mia Couto: Myth and Poetics of Relation – Fernanda Vilar: The Ghosts of Ngungunyane: Constructing an Ambivalent Hero – Mixing Wor(l)ds – Kristian Van Haesendonck: An Interview with Mia Couto.

«Year by year, Mia Couto has found increasing numbers of readers worldwide. Yet, his subtle, paradoxical and often playful oeuvre remains insuffi ciently understood,especially in the dominant Anglophone fi eld of literary criticism. The Worlds of MiaCouto makes in this context a crucial intervention: theoretically astute, wide-rangingand deeply knowledgeable, the essays in this volume make it clear why no one with aninterest in world literature or African literature today can afford to ignore this LusophoneMozambican writer.» (Stefan Helgesson, Stockholm University)