Format:
1 online resource (288 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781785276217
Content:
This book offers a translation and critical introduction to Lusophone African postcolonial poetry and short stories.
Content:
Cover -- Front Matter -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- Part I-V -- Part I Angola -- Chapter 1 Boaventura Cardoso -- Introduction -- "The Pompeu e Costa Family" (from Dizanga Dia Muenho, 1977) -- Chapter 2 Ana Paula Tavares -- Introduction -- "Ceremony of Passage" (from Rites of Passage, 1985) -- "Harvests" (from Rites of Passage, 1985) -- Untitled (from Rites of Passage, 1985) -- Untitled (from The Moon's Lake, 1999) -- Untitled (from The Moon's Lake, 1999) -- "Origins" (from You Tell Me Things Sour as Fruit, 2001) -- "Voyage" (from You Tell Me Things Sour as Fruit, 2001) -- "Foreigner" (from You Tell Me Things Sour as Fruit, 2001) -- "Between Light and Shade" (from Like Thin Veins on the Earth, 2010) -- Chapter 3 Ana De Santana -- Introduction -- "Epiphany" (from Flavors, Scents, and Reveries, 1986) -- Prologue -- Epilogue -- "Girl" (from Flavors, Scents, and Reveries, 1986) -- "Nuptials" (from Flavors, Scents, and Reveries, 1986) -- Chapter 4 Amélia Da Lomba -- Introduction -- "The Song of Silence" (from Antologia da poesia moderna angolana, 2006) -- "In the Millesimal of Time" (from Antologia da poesia moderna angolana, 2006) -- "Hands" (from Antologia da poesia moderna angolana, 2006) -- "Death's Heritage" (from Antologia da poesia moderna angolana, 2006) -- "Time's Inversion of Value" (from "Poemas Soltos," Mulemba vol. 2, no. 2) -- "Spikes of Sahel" (from Spikes of Sahel, 2004) -- Chapter 5 Ondjaki -- Introduction -- "Jika's Flight" (from The Kids from My Street, 2007) -- "We Cried for Mangy Dog" (from At the Bottom of the Song 2011) -- Part II Cabo Verde -- Chapter 6 Onésimo Silveira -- Introduction -- "Grand Hour" (from Grand Hour, 1962) -- "Waters" (from Grand Hour, 1962) -- "Portrait" (from Poems of Darkness, 2008) -- "The Suicided" (from Poems of Darkness, 2008).
Note:
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781785276194
Language:
English
