A Companion to João Paulo Borges Coelho

Rewriting the (Post)Colonial Remains

266 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This companion offers a critical overview of a great part of the literary oeuvre of the acclaimed Mozambican writer and historian João Paulo Borges Coelho. It focuses on a multiplicity of elements central to his literary project, underscoring the originality and complexity of one of the most prominent authors from the Portuguese-speaking world. With contributions from scholars hailing from different academic disciplines including history, this collection offers a compelling and original reading of Borges Coelho’s fictional work, engaging with current critical debates in the fields of literary theory, postcolonial studies, world-literature, and eco-criticism. The book advances new critical paths within Portuguese-speaking literary studies from a comparative perspective. At the same time it is addressed to a variety of scholars and advanced students in other, related fields.

• Reihe: Reconfiguring Identities in the Portuguese-Speaking World
• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Geschichte und Kritik
• ISBN: 9781787079861
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 24.03.2020
• Größe: 21 x 14.8 cm
• Verlag: Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers
• Band herausgegeben von: Elena Brugioni, Orlando Grossegesse, Paulo de Medeiros