This book looks at the way that Mozambican and Angolan literary works seek to narrate, re-create and make sense of the postcolonial nation, via three broad themes: the role of history; the recurring image of the voyage; and discursive/narrative strategies. A final section considers the postcolonial in a broader Lusophone and international context.

Ana Mafalda Leite is professor of African literature at the University of Lisbon. Her areas of research include Mozambican literature, African cultures and literatures in the Portuguese language, oral literature and postcolonial studies. Her recent publications include (2012). Hilary Owen is professor of Portuguese and African studies at the University of Manchester. Her publications include (2007) and (with Cláudia Pazos-Alonso, 2011). Rita Chaves is professor in African literature at the University of São Paulo. She is on the editorial board of and . Among her recent publications are (with Fernanda Cavacas and Tânia Macedo, 2010) and (with Tânia Macedo, 2009). Livia Apa is studying towards a doctorate in African literature at the University of Lisbon. She has translated into Italian works by Mia Couto, Ruy Duarte de Carvalho, Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos and Ana Luísa Amaral and has recently published (2010).

Contents: Iain Chambers: Power, language and the poetics of the postcolonial – Gilberto Matusse: The Narrative of the Nation in Craveirinha – Carmen Tindó Secco: The Other Feet of History: A Reading of by Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa and by Mia Couto – Ana Mafalda Leite: Rewriting the Thresholds of History in Order to Re-Think the Nation – Inocência Mata: The Memory of Colonization and the Sentence of the Future in the Figuration of the Nation – Sheila Khan: Utopias and Aporias: The Calibre of a Nation’s Dreams – Laura Cavalcante Padilha: Novels as Travel Diaries: The Case of Angola – Rita Chaves: Ruy Duarte de Carvalho’s : The Voyage as Synthesis and Invention – Kamila Krakowska: The Voyages of the Post-Colonial Nations in and – Giulia Spinuzza: The Reconfiguration of the Nation in Eduardo White’s – Hilary Owen: Women on the Edge of a Nervous Empire in Paulina Chiziane and Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa – Nazir Ahmed Can: A House of Marked Cards: The Public Discourse of the Political Elite in the Novels of João Paulo Borges Coelho – Tania Macedo: Reflection and Aesthetic Development in the Work of Manuel Rui – Livia Apa: Nation and Narration: What does African Cinema Tell Us? – Jessica Falconi: Some Thoughts around the Idea of the invention of the Narratives. Inhaltsverzeichnis