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  • Lusophone African Short Stories and Poetry after Independence

    Decolonial Destinies

    Series series
    In 1975, after much resistance, Portugal became the last colonial power to relinquish their colonies on the African continent. The tardiness of Portuguese decolonization in Africa (Cabo Verde, Angola, Mozambique, Guinea Bissau, São Tomé and Príncipe) raises critical questions for the emergence of national literary and cultural production in the wake of national independence. Bringing together the ... Leer más

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  • Lusophone African Short Stories and Poetry after Independence

    Decolonial Destinies

    Series series Anthem Studies in Race, Power and Society
    In 1975, after much resistance, Portugal became the last colonial power to relinquish its colonies on the African continent. The tardiness of Portuguese decolonization in Africa (Cabo Verde, Angola, Mozambique, Guinea Bissau, São Tomé e Príncipe) raises critical questions for the emergence of national literary and cultural production in the wake of national independence. Bringing together the ... Leer más

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  • Lusophone African Short Stories and Poetry after Independence

    Decolonial Destinies

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    In 1975, after much resistance, Portugal became the last colonial power to relinquish their colonies on the African continent. The tardiness of Portuguese decolonization in Africa (Cabo Verde, Angola, Mozambique, Guinea Bissau, São Tomé and Príncipe) raises critical questions for the emergence of national literary and cultural production in the wake of national independence. Bringing together the ... Leer más

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  • Lima Barreto

    New Critical Perspectives

    This edited volume is a collection of twelve interdisciplinary essays from various Brazilian literary scholars, historians, and anthropologists analyzing the work of 19th- and 20th-century Afro-Brazilian writer Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto. This is the first collection to present a cohesive analysis of this writer’s work in English. It is an intellectually diverse collection of essays that ... Leer más

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  • Emerging Dialogues on Machado de Assis

    Edición de Lamonte Aidoo, Daniel F. Silva ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The first book-length edited collection on Machado de Assis, this volume offers essays on Machado de Assis' work that offer new critical perspectives not only Brazilian literature and history, but also to social, cultural, and political phenomena that continue to have global repercussions. ... Leer más

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  • Slavery Unseen

    Sex, Power, and Violence in Brazilian History

    de Lamonte Aidoo ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    In Slavery Unseen, Lamonte Aidoo upends the narrative of Brazil as a racial democracy, showing how the myth of racial democracy elides the history of sexual violence, patriarchal terror, and exploitation of slaves. Drawing on sources ranging from inquisition trial documents to travel accounts and literature, Aidoo demonstrates how interracial and same-sex sexual violence operated as a key ... Leer más

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  • The End of Airports

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  • Illustrating the Past in Early Modern England

    The Representation of History in Printed Books

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  • Stamped from the Beginning

    The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

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  • Iterations of Loss

    Mutilation and Aesthetic Form, al-Shidyaq to Darwish

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  • Castaway Tales

    From Robinson Crusoe to Life of Pi

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