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  • Lusophone African Short Stories and Poetry after Independence

    Decolonial Destinies

    by Daniel Silva, Lamonte Aidoo ...
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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 ... Read more

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  • Lusophone African Short Stories and Poetry after Independence

    Decolonial Destinies

    by Daniel Silva, Lamonte Aidoo ...
    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 ... Read more

    $28.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lusophone African Short Stories and Poetry after Independence

    Decolonial Destinies

    by Daniel Silva, Lamonte Aidoo ...
    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 ... Read more

    $35.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lima Barreto

    New Critical Perspectives

    by Paulo da-Luz-Moreira, Robert Anderson, Talia Gúzman-González, Luiz Fernando Valente, Vivaldo A. Santos, Earl E. Fitz, Renata R. M. Wasserman, Nelson H. Vieira, Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, Marc A. Hertzman, Mário Higa, Emanuelle K. F. Oliveira ...
    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 ... Read more

    $109.99 USD

  • Slavery Unseen

    Sex, Power, and Violence in Brazilian History

    by 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 ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Emerging Dialogues on Machado de Assis

    Edited by 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. ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

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  • Illustrating the Past in Early Modern England

    The Representation of History in Printed Books

    by James A. Knapp ...
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  • Iterations of Loss

    Mutilation and Aesthetic Form, al-Shidyaq to Darwish

    by Jeffrey Sacks ...
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