Magic Stones and Flying Snakes - Gender and the 'Postcolonial Exotic' in the Work of Paulina Chiziane and Lídia Jorge

This monograph is the first to identify an important theoretical overlap between Anglo-Saxon and Lusophone postcolonial theories: the systematic neglect of gender and sexual variables in the analysis of the marketing of cultural difference in the post colonial era. Drawing on the theoretical work of Graham Huggan and Boaventura de Sousa Santos, the author of this study discusses the political significance of this neglect by focusing on the asymmetrical positions occupied by two widely acclaimed Lusophone women writers, Paulina Chiziane of Mozambique and Lídia Jorge of Portugal. The book asks how these two contemporary writers deal with master narratives such as Lusofonia, exoticism, capitalism and post colonialism in their novels, and examines the implications of placing gender and sexual difference at the heart of the 'post colonial exotic'.

List of contents

Contents: Dancing in the 'Luso-limbo' - Touching the Pole of Popularity - Touching the Ground of Subversion - Being Here - Colonial Minds Think Alike - Os Locais das Merendas - Provincializing Lisbon.

Product details

• Authors: Ana Margarida Martins
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2016
• EAN: 9783034308281
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3430828-1
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 14 mm x 225 mm
• Weight: 370 g
• Series: Reviews in Plasmonics; Reconfiguring Identities in the Portuguese-Speaking World; Reviews in Plasmonics; Reconfiguring Identities in the Portuguese-Speaking World
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Women's and gender studies