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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.
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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
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About the Contributors
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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.
