Postcolonial Nation and Narrative III: Literature & Cinema: Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau and São Tomé e Príncipe (Reconfiguring Identities in the Portuguese-Speaking World)

This volume investigates literary and cinematographic narratives from Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau and Sao Tome and Principe, analysing the different ways in which social and cultural experience is represented in postcolonial contexts. It continues and completes the exploration of the postcolonial imaginary and identity of Portuguese-speaking Africa presented in the earlier volume Narrating the Postcolonial Nation: Mapping Angola and Mozambique (2014). Memory, history, migration and diaspora are core notions in the recreation and reconceptualization of the nation and its identities in Capeverdian, Guinean and Saotomean literary and cinematographic culture. Acknowledging that the idea of the postcolonial nation intersects with other social, political, cultural and historical categories, this book scrutinizes written and visual representations of the nation from a wide range of inter- and transdisciplinary perspectives, including literary and film studies, gender studies, sociology, and post-colonial and cultural studies. It makes a valuable contribution to current debates on postcolonialism, nation and identity in these former Portuguese colonies. Cover Contents List of Figures Introduction: Postcolonial Nation and Narrative, Cinema and Literature (Ana Mafalda Leite) Part I African Cinema, National, Transnational, Decolonial and Lusophone? Lusophone Cinemas in Transnational Perspective (Paulo de Medeiros) African Cinema: A Transnational Cinema? The Decolonial Cinema of Flora Gomes (Ute Fendler) The ‘Sounds’ of Lusophony: The Question of Language in Two Films with Cape Verdean Themes (Ellen W. Sapega) Part II Visual Narratives and Poetics Between Realities and Scenarios: Duty and Authority to Narrate the Nation between Images (Sheila Khan) José Carlos Schwarz’s Poetics and the Guinean Nation: Relations between Cinema, Literature, Music, Memory and History (Carmen Lúcia Tindó Secco) The Prayers of Mansata by Abdulai Sila: Performing the Postcolony (Elena Brugioni) Part III The Films of Flora Gomes Flora Gomes: Resilient Hope on Scant Chances (Joana Passos) Authorial Features in African Cinema: The Case of the Guinean Flora Gomes (Jusciele Conceição Almeida de Oliveira / Mirian Tavares) Where Is Cabral? Postnational Culture and Liberation in Nha fala (Mark Sabine) Part IV Leão Lopes’s and Pedro Costa’s Cape Verdean Cinema When the Chess Board Had Only White Pieces: A Study of Ilhéu de Contenda, the Book and the Film (Jane Tutikian) In Search of the White Father: Filming the Island of Fogo in the Cinema of Pedro Costa and Leão Lopes (Hilary Owen) Wreckage, Fragments and Non-Places: The Life of Cape Verdean Immigrants in Cavalo Dinheiro by Pedro Costa (Doris Wieser) Part V Documentary Narratives on Cape Verde and São Tomé e Príncipe Intertwining Histories: Documentary Narratives on São Tomé and Cape Verde (Jessica Falconi) Zooming in on the Edges: Narratives of the Santomean Nation in the Documentaries of Ângelo Torres (Kamila Krakowska) Part VI Postcolonial and Postnational Literature After Nationalism: Literary Configurations of Contemporary Postcolonialities in Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau and São Tomé e Príncipe (Emanuelle Santos) ‘Eva das Mil Pessoas’: Politics and Hyper-sexuality in Germano Almeida’s Eva (Luís Madureira) Notes on Contributors Index