Africa
African cultural studies
African diasporic studies
African identity reconstruction
African literary scholarship
African literary voices
African memory and historiography
African postcolonial identity
African postcolonial theory
African postwar literature
African social memory
African Studies
African textual analysis
Ana Paula Tavares poetry
Angola and Orientalism
Angolan cultural dialogue
Angolan cultural reform
Angolan cultural resilience
Angolan exile narratives
Angolan heritage studies
Angolan historical trauma
Angolan history and culture
Angolan intellectual history
Angolan interdisciplinary research
Angolan literary activism
Angolan literary interviews
Angolan memory and identity
Angolan national consciousness
Angolan national identity formation
Angolan poetry and prose
Angolan scholarship in English
Angolan women writers
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colonial and post-independence Angola
colonial war recollections
Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
comparative colonial studies
decolonization studies
degredados in Portuguese colonies
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historical and literary perspectives on Angola
historical memory in Africa
Jose Luandino Vieira interview
literary analysis of Angola
Lusophone Africa
Lusophone cultural memory
Lusophone literary criticism
Lusophone literary heritage
memory and literature in Africa
Portuguese imperial history
post-independence Angolan literature
postcolonial studies
Salazar regime in Angola
Product details
- ISBN 9781933227139
- Weight: 525g
- Dimensions: 152 x 223mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jan 2010
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Remembering Angola is a groundbreaking volume that brings together articles by leading scholars from around the world. From a range of disciplines, they reflect on the role Angolan culture has played in reformulating the torn fabric of a nation historically beset by strife and oppression. Thus, ""re-membering"" goes beyond recall, although many of the articles in the volume contemplate histories and memories - from those of the colonial war to those of post-independence exiles; from those of degredados to those of Angola's leading literary voices; from those of Portuguese women who witnessed the horrors of Salazar's policies in the jewel of the Portuguese imperial crown to those of a nineteenth-century journalist elite who laid the seeds of a national consciousness. The volume dialogues with a range of theoretical issues including the concept of voyaging through one's own alterity as an Angolan antidote to Camões's appropriating voyage into the unknown; and an interrogation of Angola's answers to Orientalism. It also includes a revealing interview (one of very few published in English) with the reclusive José Luandino Vieira, one of the Portuguese-speaking world's literary titans, as well as original poetry by Angola's leading female poet, Ana Paula Tavares.
Phillip Rothwell is Professor of Portuguese at Rutgers University. His recent publications include, A Postmodern Nationalist: Truth, Orality and Gender in the Work of Mia Couto (Bucknell, 2004), A Canon of Empty Fathers: Paternity in Portuguese Narrative (Bucknell, 2007), and Sexual/Textual Empires: Gender and Marginality in Lusophone African Literature (Bristol, 2004; edited with Hilary Owen).
