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A Companion to Mia Couto (Hardcover)
Grant Hamilton, David Huddart; Contributions by Grant Hamilton, David Huddart, David Brookshaw, …
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R1,916
Discovery Miles 19 160
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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]
The publication of An African Eclipse in 1992 had introduced Chin
Ce as a political writer of profound awareness of nation and
continental history and, thenceforth, Ce's art was soon to carve
its own stamp of identity by his eclectic and interdisciplinary
fusion of perspectives which lend his works deeper and wider
significance. This book contains scholarly chapters and reviews on
the novels and works of Nigerian novelist, poet and critic Chin Ce
only as a mild testimony to the wider interest and criticism which
recent Nigerian writing might continue to generate among scholars
of African literature throughout the world.
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Daria (Paperback)
Irene Marques
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R464
Discovery Miles 4 640
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This exploration of class, feminism, and cultural identity
(including issues of race, nation, colonialism, and economic
imperialism) focuses on the work of four writers: the Mozambican
Mia Couto, the Portuguese Jose Saramago, the Brazilian Clarice
Lispector and the South African J. M. Coetzee. In the first
section, the author discusses the political aspects of Couto's
collection of short stories Contos do nascer da terra (Stories of
the Birth of the Land) and Saramago's novel O ano da morte de
Ricardo Reis (The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis). The second
section explores similar themes in Coetzee's Life and Times of
Michael K and Lispector's A hora da estrela (The Hour of the Star).
Marques argues that these four writers are political in the sense
that they bring to the forefront issues pertaining to the power of
literature to represent, misrepresent, and debate matter related to
different subaltern subjects: the postcolonial subject, the poor
subject (the ""poor other""), and the female subject. She also
discusses the ""ahuman other"" in the context of the subjectivity
of the natural world, the dead, and the unborn, and shows how these
aspects are present in all the different societies addressed and
point to the mystical dimension that permeates most societies. With
regard to Couto's work, this ""ahuman other"" is approached mostly
through a discussion of the holistic, animist values and
epistemologies that inform and guide Mozambican traditional
societies, while in further analyses the notion is approached via
discussions on phenomenology, elementality, and divinity following
the philosophies of Levinas and Irigaray and mystical consciousness
in Zen Buddhism and the psychology of Jung.
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