African Literatures in the Portuguese Language: Singularities

IF 0.3 3区 文学 0 LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI:10.1017/pli.2023.2
Nazir Ahmed Can
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Abstract This article reflects on some textual and institutional elements that distinguish literary life in Portuguese-speaking African countries. These elements concern, firstly, the peculiarities of the Portuguese empire. Combining precarity, epistemological backwardness, and violence in equal proportion, it inspired an artistic response that was consolidated even before the independences. Secondly, they relate to the type of decolonization produced in these territories. Contrary to the majority of other African contexts, their independence was not negotiated, but conquered through armed struggle. Thirdly, there are the thematic and formal aspects: the “animal,” the “dead,” and an internationalist geographical imaginary play a structuring role in the literary fields. Thus, this article demonstrates how these contexts, unique to African literatures, can also offer new data for the analysis of cultural goods in the twenty-first century.
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葡萄牙语中的非洲文学:奇点
摘要本文反思了非洲葡萄牙语国家文学生活的一些文本和制度因素。这些因素首先涉及葡萄牙帝国的特点。它将不稳定、认识论的落后和暴力以同等比例结合在一起,激发了一种艺术反应,这种反应甚至在独立之前就得到了巩固。第二,它们涉及在这些领土上产生的非殖民化类型。与大多数其他非洲国家的情况相反,他们的独立不是通过谈判获得的,而是通过武装斗争获得的。第三,有主题和形式方面:“动物”、“死者”和国际主义的地理想象在文学领域发挥着结构作用。因此,本文展示了非洲文学所特有的这些背景如何也能为分析21世纪的文化产品提供新的数据。
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