The Indian Ocean and the Portuguese-Speaking World

Literary and Cultural Intersections
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-80079-096-4
Verlag: Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers

Buch, Englisch, Band 20, 382 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 564 g

Reihe: Reconfiguring Identities in the Portuguese-Speaking World

«This is a timely and rigorous addition to the cultural study of the Indian Ocean, as a nexus of transnational meaning and relations. Revealing the ocean in its historical, aesthetic and utopian diversity, this book heralds a new way of understanding shifting power dynamics fluidly defined through one of the globe’s most protean spaces.»(Phillip Rothwell, King John II Professor of Portuguese, University of Oxford)«The essays in this volume make a valuable contribution to the growing field of Indian Ocean Studies through their emphasis on literary and artistic production in multilingual and multicultural contexts. The resulting whole presents a stimulating new framework for transnational approaches to the study of works originating in the Lusotopic spaces of East Africa and Asia.»(Ellen W. Sapega, Full Professor, University of Wisconsin–Madison)Working from the premise that the Indian Ocean shapes new transnational imaginative geographies, this volume analyses how visual and written narratives from Lusophone, or rather «Lusotopic», spaces – Portugal, Mozambique, East Timor and Goa – point to productive critical dialogues with existing theories in Indian Ocean studies. The conceptual and epistemological revision presented in the book allows for the emergence of different theoretical constellations that are not solely based on the opposition between coloniality and the postcolonial condition, nor grounded upon the concept of linguistic or national identity, pointing to a set of original critical developments within the area of Indian Ocean studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Leite, Ana Mafalda

Brugioni, Elena

Falconi, Jessica

Banasiak, Marta

Weitere Mitwirkende

Pazos-Alonso, Cláudia

de Medeiros, Paulo

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents: Marta Banasiak: Lusotopic navigations across the Indian Ocean – Joana Pereira Leite and Ana Mafalda Leite: The narratives of history and the uncovering of the Indian Ocean – Manuel Lobato: Travel literature and the colonial matrix on the Indian Ocean periphery: From Mozambique to Timor – Jessica Falconi and Elena Brugioni: The Indian Ocean in the commemoration of the Portuguese discoveries – Carmen Lucia Tindó Secco: Religiosity and universalism(s) in the Indian Ocean – Joana Passos, Kamila Krakowska Rodrigues and Marta Banasiak: Writing on the Indian Ocean rim: Literary representations of migration and transit – Gabriela Beduschi Zanfelice: Postcolonial environments: Notes on the relationship between nature, literature and the Indian Ocean in Borges Coelho’s Índicos Indícios – Jessica Falconi and Giulia Spinuzza: Fishing for stories: Audiovisual narratives of the Indian – Ocean: Goa, Mozambique and East Timor – Ute Fendler: The Indian Ocean: A relational imaginary – Meg Samuelson and Pamila Gupta: Moving frames and circulating subjects: Reflections on Capital Art Studio, Zanzibar – Clarissa Vierke: Imaginaries of far- away places? Swahili poetry and its changing worlds in the Western Indian Ocean – Ana Mafalda Leite: Foreword – Khal Torabully: Coolitude, when indentured labour rewrites the (Indian) Ocean and history in unceasing resistance and creativity – João Paulo Borges Coelho: Narrating the Indian Ocean from Mozambique – Luís Carlos Patraquim: Poems – Khal Torabully: Poems from the book Voices at the Aapravasi Ghat-Indentured Imaginairies – Jessica Faleiro: Merman.

Über Autor(innen)

Ana Mafalda Leite is Associate Professor of African Literature at the University of Lisbon and an associate researcher at the Centre for African and Development Studies at the same university.

Elena Brugioni is Associate Professor in Comparative Literature (African literatures and Postcolonial theory) at the Department of Literary Theory of the University of Campinas UNICAMP, and Lecturer at the Graduate Program in Literary Theory and History at Unicamp.

Jessica Falconi is a researcher at the Centre for African and Development Studies of the University of Lisbon and a member of Globalization and Development research group.

Marta Banasiak is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Literary Theory of the University of Campinas UNICAMP and collaborating researcher at the Centre for African and Development Studies of the University of Lisbon.