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A Companion to Mia Couto (Hardcover)
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A Companion to Mia Couto (Hardcover)
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This new research in English on the work of the Mozambican writer
Mia Couto provides a comprehensive introduction to the critical
terrain of Couto's literary thought. Already well-established in
the Lusophone world, Mia Couto is increasingly acknowledged as a
major voice in World literature. Winner of the Camoes Prize for
Literature in 2013, the most prestigious literary prize honouring
Lusophone writers, he was awarded the Neustadt International Prize
for Literature in 2014, and in 2015 was shortlisted for the Man
Booker International Prize. Yet, despite this high profile there
are very few full-length critical studiesin English about his
writing. Mia Couto is known for his imaginative re-working of
Portuguese, making it distinctively Mozambican in character. This
book brings together some of the key scholars of his work such as
Phillip Rothwell, Luis Madureira, and his long-time English
translator David Brookshaw. Contributors examine not only his early
works, which were written in the context of the 16-year
post-independence civil war in Mozambique, but alsothe wide span of
Couto's contemporary writing as a novelist, short story writer,
poet and essayist. There are contributions on his work in ecology,
theatre and journalism, as well as on translation and Mozambican
nationalist politics. Most importantly the contributors engage with
the significance of Couto's writing to contemporary discussions of
African literature, Lusophone studies and World literature. Grant
Hamilton is Associate Professor of English literature at the
Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the editor of Reading
Marechera (James Currey, 2013). David Huddart is Associate
Professor of English literature at the Chinese University of Hong
Kongand is author of Involuntary Associations: World Englishes and
Postcolonial Studies (Liverpool University Press, 2014]
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