Remembering Angola [Paperback]

Remembering Angolais a groundbreaking volume that brings together articles by leading scholars from around the world. From a range of disciplines, they reflect on the role Angolan culture has played in reformulating the torn fabric of a nation historically beset by strife and oppression. Thus, re-membering goes beyond recall, although many of the articles in the volume contemplate histories and memoriesfrom those of the colonial war to those of post-independence exiles; from those ofdegredadosto those of Angola's leading literary voices; from those of Portuguese women who witnessed the horrors of Salazar's policies in the jewel of the Portuguese imperial crown to those of a nineteenth-century journalist elite who laid the seeds of a national consciousness. The volume dialogues with a range of theoretical issues including the concept of voyaging through one's own alterity as an Angolan antidote to Cam?es's appropriating voyage into the unknown; and an interrogation of Angola's answers to Orientalism. It also includes a revealing interview (one of very few published in English) with the reclusive Jos? Luandino Vieira, one of the Portuguese-speaking world's literary titans, as well as original poetry by Angola's leading female poet, Ana Paula Tavares.

PHILLIP ROTHWELLis Professor of Portuguese at Rutgers University. His recent publications include,A Postmodern Nationalist: Truth, Orality and Gender in the Work of Mia Couto(Bucknell, 2004),A Canon of Empty Fathers: Paternity in Portuguese Narrative(Bucknell, 2007), andSexual/Textual Empires: Gender and Marginality in Lusophone African Literature(Bristol, 2004; edited with Hilary Owen).