Poems from Angola

Poems from Angola PDF

Author: Michael Wolfers

Publisher: London : Heinemann ; Exeter, N.H., U.S.A. : Heinemann Educational Books

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13:

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To A Nação, with Love: The Politics of Language through Angolan Poetry

To A Nação, with Love: The Politics of Language through Angolan Poetry PDF

Author: Robert Simon

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2017-02-10

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 1944508090

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This book serves as a study of poets' reflections on the use of the Portuguese language as a tool for the nation building project of Angola during and after the war of independence. The writers studied fall into two categories: those of a first phase, in the context of the war of independence, during which time poets often focused on linguistic unity as a reflection of the nation's plurality through the inscribing of notions of singular identity simultaneous to the incorporation of elements of linguistic plurality; and those of the second phase, within the context of the post-war and ensuing civil strife which, if taken as a more or less continuous Civil War, lasted from 1975 to 2002, and during which writers would use techniques seen in many postmodern poets to deconstruct the utopian discourse of poets from the previous generation.The essay elucidates existing arguments regarding political and social movement as well as to less-recognized arguments regarding literary evolution in Angola during this period.

Angola Light of Poet

Angola Light of Poet PDF

Author: Chicamba

Publisher: Xlibris

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781499092004

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The objective of this book is to share with you and show in all-entire world the literature of Angola with some situation happened in the war. Therefore, always the literature did a part of my life, since in the childhood in the time of High School there in the province of Benguela. That terminated in the publication of this book, that was dream publish book about what I saw and I still see it around globe. Unfortunately, the history of Africa particularly Angola was lost century ago before the colonisation came and in the middle of the war.

Kunuar

Kunuar PDF

Author: Luisa Coelho

Publisher: Pleasure Boat Studio

Published: 2015-11-15

Total Pages: 82

ISBN-13: 9780912887395

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Kunuar is a volume of fifty-two poems framed by the feminist and postcolonial sensibilities of the Portuguese author, Luisa Coelho. In a painful but playful manner she describes her re-discovery, in a post-colonial era, of Luanda, the capital of Angola, the country of her birth. Memory crafts a vivid dialogue between today and yesterday that sheds light on the remains of colonial Luanda's history. Kunuar, the title of both the book and the concluding poem, refers to the small spots on the street where secondhand clothes are sold to the large penniless population of Luanda. The image of a poor mother distressed because she cannot afford even castoff clothes becomes an icon of the poverty of a city and a country, but her pain is assuaged by the urine of her baby running down her back and warming her. This powerful image points to many others in the collection, in which the recurrent theme of love of mother and child is one of the few sources of hope in the midst of misery and grinding poverty in a post-colonial country that is the second producer of diamonds and petroleum in sub-Saharan Africa. Like this moving and beautiful image, Coelho's poetic writing offers in a very subtle way an enchanting testimony about the past as well as the current oppressive conditions of Luanda after four centuries of Portuguese colonial order, Angola's independence in 1975, followed by its intense civil war from 1975 to 2002."

Sure Road? Nationalisms in Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique

Sure Road? Nationalisms in Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique PDF

Author: Eric Morier-Genoud

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2012-04-19

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 900422601X

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This book brings together new research on the subject of nations and nationalisms in Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique. It explores the history and politics of diverse nationalist discourses and ideologies, and it revisits the formation and contemporary developments of national imagined communities in Portuguese-speaking Africa. It does so by drawing on several disciplines and by exploring themes as diverse as Frelimo’s liberation literature, UNITA’s moral economy and the disaggregation of Guinea-Bissau. The authors provide novel insights in the hope of contributing to the academic and public debate on the subject, not least in those countries where, in the face of liberalisation, ruling parties and their opponents have been arguing intensively over, and have sometime struggled to re-invent, a sense of national community. Through their engagement with the subject, authors also make a contribution to the general discussion of the concepts of nations and nationalism.