Sexual/textual empires
Subtitle: gender and marginality in Lusophone African literature
By: edited by Hilary Owen and Phillip Rothwell
Contributors: Owen, Hilary; Rothwell, Phillip, 1972-; University of Bristol. Dept. of Hispanic, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies
Series: Lusophone studies -- 2
Publisher: Dept. of Hispanic, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies, University of Bristol
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Bristol
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
Subjects: African literature (Portuguese) -- History and criticism; Sex role in literature; Marginality, Social, in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-214)
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Sexing the differences : a Lusophone African perspective / Hilary Owen and Phillip Rothwell; title: A hybridity of one's own : re-reading Noémia de Sousa / Hilary Owen; title: Gender, race, and violence in Luís Bernardo Honwana's Nós matámos o Cão-Tinhoso: the emasculation of the African patriarch / Mark Sabine; title: Morabeza in the metropolis : gender, emigration and the colonial relation in pre-independence Cape Verdean literature / Ellen W. Sapega; title: Placing women's time in a colonial space : Abdulai Sila's A última tragédia / Phillip Rothwell; title: Luso love in the time of war : Camões Barbara recast in Jornado de África, by Manuel Alegre / Margarida Calafate Ribeiro; title: Janus or hydra? : Pepetela, the new man and the construction of Angolan masculinities / Igor Cusack; title: Maidens, matriarchs and martyrs : Mozambican women in the works of Lília Momplé / Claire Williams; title: Corporeal identity : representations of female sexuality and the body in the novels of Paulina Chiziane / Sandra Campos; title: Sex in the shadow of the nation : Angola in the voices of Lopito Feijóo and Paula Tavares / Ana Sofia Ganho; title: Interview with Lília Momplé / Hilary Owen and Claire Williams