A companion to João Paulo Borges Coelho : rewriting the (post)colonial remains /
Brugioni, Elena,editor.
Grossegesse, Orlando,editor.
Medeiros, Paulo de,1958-editor.
"This Companion offers a critical overview of great part of the literary oeuvre of the acclaimed Mozambican writer and historian João Paulo Borges Coelho. It focuses on a multiplicity of elements central to his literary project, underscoring the originality and the complexity of one of the most prominent authors from the Portuguese-speaking World. With contributions from scholars hailing from different academic disciplines, including History, this collection offers a compelling and original reading of Borges Coelho's fictional work, engaging with current critical debates in the field of literary theory, postcolonial studies, world-literature, and eco-criticism. The book advances new critical paths within Portuguese-speaking literary studies from a comparative perspective. At the same time it is addressed to a variety of scholars and advanced students in other, related fields"--
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword: João Paulo Borges Coelho bio-bibliography -- The Enchanted Cloth / (João Paulo Borges Coelho) translated by David Brookshaw -- The archive and the fable. Trajectory of a Mozambican historian / Paolo Israel -- Poetics and politics of memory: notes on João Paulo Borges Coelho's novels / Nazir Ahmed Can -- Narratives of the Indian Ocean in the writing of João Paulo Borges Coelho -- a transnational geography / Ana Mafalda Leite -- History, literature and the indices of the Ocean. Force of signification in Borges Coelho's 'A força do mar de Agosto' / Rui Gonçalves Miranda -- The tourism imaginary in Hinyambaan / Jessica Falconi -- A parody of final redemption -- The uses of geopolitical fiction in O Olho de Hertzog, by João Paulo Borges Coelho / Orlando Grossegesse -- Of clues, traces and minor histories. Theorizing the genre of historical novel in Rainhas da Noite / Elena Brugioni -- Towards a world-literary aesthetics of postcolonial memory: Rainhas da Noite, by João Paulo Borges Coelho / Emanuelle Santos -- The drowning of time: ecological catastrophe, dialectics, and allegorical realism in João Paulo Borges Coelho's Ponta Gea and Água: Uma novela rural / Paulo de Medeiros -- Notes on contributors -- Index.
"This Companion offers a critical overview of great part of the literary oeuvre of the acclaimed Mozambican writer and historian João Paulo Borges Coelho. It focuses on a multiplicity of elements central to his literary project, underscoring the originality and the complexity of one of the most prominent authors from the Portuguese-speaking World. With contributions from scholars hailing from different academic disciplines, including History, this collection offers a compelling and original reading of Borges Coelho's fictional work, engaging with current critical debates in the field of literary theory, postcolonial studies, world-literature, and eco-criticism. The book advances new critical paths within Portuguese-speaking literary studies from a comparative perspective. At the same time it is addressed to a variety of scholars and advanced students in other, related fields"--
Coelho, João Paulo Borges