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Literary Connections between South Africa and the Lusophone World examines the connections between the literatures and cultures of South Africa and Portuguese-speaking nations of Africa, Portugal, and Brazil.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: Revisiting the Adamastor Myth in Fernando Pessoa's "O Mostrengo" and André Brink's The First Life Of Adamastor, Paulo Ferreira
Chapter Two: A Thread of Gold: Fernando Pessoa, Hubert Jennings, and Classical Education in Durban, Jeffrey Murray
Chapter Three: Van Der Post's Postcolonial Melancholia and Zimler's Reparational Mourning in Novels on the San, John T. Maddox IV
Chapter Four: Ruy Duarte De Carvalho's Border Literature in As paisagens propícias, Alice Girotto
Chapter Five: Why Do They Kill Us?: The Strange Neighborhood and Necropolitics in Lília Momplé's Novel Neighbours, Nilza Laice
Chapter Six: Last Dinner at Polana: Peter Wilhelm's L.M., Ludmylla Lima
Chapter Seven: The Degrading Figuration of the Intellectual on the Periphery of Capitalism: A Comparative Study of Chico Buarque's Essa Gente and J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace, Edvaldo A. Bergamo
Chapter Eight: Dissident Authorship in Post-Colonial Mozambique and Post-Apartheid South Africa: The Cases Of António Quadros and J. M. Coetzee, Tom Stennett
Chapter Nine: Narrating the World from Africa: João Paulo Borges Coelho and J. M. Coetzee, Marta Banasiak
Afterword
About the Contributors
About the author
Anita de Melo is senior lecturer in Portuguese and literature at the University of Cape Town.
Ludmylla Lima is associate professor of literatures in Portuguese Language at UNILAB - Bahia.
John T. Maddox IV is associate professor of Spanish and African American studies at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
