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Magic Stones and Flying Snakes

Gender and the ‘Postcolonial Exotic’ in the Work of Paulina Chiziane and Lídia Jorge

by Ana Margarida Martins (Author)
©2012 Monographs X, 248 Pages

Summary

This monograph is the first to identify an important theoretical overlap between Anglo-Saxon and Lusophone postcolonial theories: the systematic neglect of gender and sexual variables in the analysis of the marketing of cultural difference in the post colonial era. Drawing on the theoretical work of Graham Huggan and Boaventura de Sousa Santos, the author of this study discusses the political significance of this neglect by focusing on the asymmetrical positions occupied by two widely acclaimed Lusophone women writers, Paulina Chiziane of Mozambique and Lídia Jorge of Portugal. The book asks how these two contemporary writers deal with master narratives such as Lusofonia, exoticism, capitalism and post colonialism in their novels, and examines the implications of placing gender and sexual difference at the heart of the ‘post colonial exotic’.

Details

Pages
X, 248
Publication Year
2012
ISBN (PDF)
9783035303650
ISBN (Softcover)
9783034308281
DOI
10.3726/978-3-0353-0365-0
Language
English
Publication date
2012 (September)
Keywords
cultural difference political significance capitalism
Published
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2012. X, 248 pp.

Biographical notes

Ana Margarida Martins (Author)

Ana Margarida Martins holds a PhD in Mozambican and Portuguese literatures from the University of Manchester. She has also worked in Portugal as a teacher of Portuguese literature and the English language.

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