Narrating the Postcolonial Nation Mapping Angola and Mozambique

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 Oralidades & Escritas Pós-Coloniais (2012). Hilary Owen is professor of Portuguese and African studies at the University of Manchester. Her publications include Mother Africa, Father Marx: Women’s Writings in Mozambique (2007) and Antigone’s Daughters? Gender, Genealogy, and the Politics of Authorship in Twentieth-Century Portuguese Women’s Writing (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 Revista de Letras and Via Atlântica. Among her recent publications are Mia Couto: O desejo de contar e de inventar (with Fernanda Cavacas and Tânia Macedo, 2010) and Portanto … Pepetela (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 Abitare la lingua: Riflessioni sulla lingua portoghese in Angola (2010).