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  • Dissident Authorship in Mozambique

    the Case of António Quadros (1933-1994)

    by Mr Tom Stennett ...
    Series series Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs
    Dissident Authorship in Mozambique: the Case of António Quadros is the first monograph on the literary works of the pennames of Portuguese poet and painter António Quadros (1933-1994). The book uses Quadros's quirky case-- a Portuguese man who lived in colonial and post-independence Mozambique, where he published poetry and prose under three pennames--João Pedro Grabato Dias, Frey Ioannes ... Read more

    $72.89 USD

  • Literary Connections Between South Africa and the Lusophone World

    by Ludmylla Lima, Marta Banasiak, Edvaldo A. Bergamo, Paulo Ferreira, Alice Girotto, Nilza Laice, Jeffrey Murray, Tom Stennett, John T. Maddox IV0 ...
    Literary Connections between South Africa and the Lusophone World connects literatures and cultures of South Africa and the Portuguese-speaking nations of Africa and beyond, and is set within literary and cultural studies. The chapters gathered in this volume reinforce the critical and ongoing conversations in comparative and world literature from perspectives of the South. It outlines some ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

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  • The New Cultural History of Peronism

    Power and Identity in Mid-Twentieth-Century Argentina

    by Natalia Milanesio ...
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  • Planetary Longings

    by Mary Louise Pratt ...
    Series series Dissident Acts
    In Planetary Longings eminent cultural theorist Mary Louise Pratt posits that the last decade of the twentieth century and the first decades of the twenty-first mark a turning point in the human and planetary condition. Examining the forces of modernity, neoliberalism, coloniality, and indigeneity in their pre- and postmillennial forms, Pratt reflects on the crisis of futurity that accompanies the ... Read more

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  • Singular and Plural

    Ideologies of Linguistic Authority in 21st Century Catalonia

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    The Literature of Latin America's Export Age

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