Magic stones and flying snakes
Subtitle: gender and the 'postcolonial exotic' in the work of Paulina Chiziane and Lídia Jorge
By: Ana Margarida Martins
Series: Reconfiguring identities in the Portuguese-speaking world -- v. 1
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9783034308281
Subjects: Literature and society; Ethnicity in literature; Criticism and interpretation; Exoticism in literature; Race in literature; Postcolonialism in literature; Gender identity in literature; Postcolonialism
Other titles: Gender and the postcolonial exotic in the work of Paulina Chiziane and Lídia Jorge
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-240) and index.
Table of contents: title: Dancing in the Luso-limbo : between centres and margins; title: Touching the pole of popularity in Niketche : uma história de poligamia; title: Touching the ground of subversion in O Sétimo Juramento; title: Being here: the anthropological drive behind Balada de amor ao vento; title: Colonial minds think alike: signalling the ghost of inter-Identity in O vento assobiando nas gruas; title: Os locais das merendas : performing the exotic, gendering the local in O cais das merendas; title: Provincializing Lisbon : the subaltern past of the Revolution in O dia dos prodígios.