A influência do conceito do universalismo e pós-colonialismo na literatura africana contemporânea
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2010
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Edições Universitárias Lusófonas
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Este ensaio tem o objetivo de buscar e aprofundar novas perspetivas das tendências recentes entrevistas em debates académicos sobre o conceito pós-colonialismo, a falsa noção de universalismo eurocêntrico e a sua relação com o desenvolvimento das literaturas africanas contemporâneas. Para este fim, este ensaio vai enfatizar o papel das histórias de diferentes lugares e culturas do mundo
pós-colonial, explorando ao mesmo tempo os estudos das literaturas africanas em geral e, particularmente, aspetos relevantes das literaturas anglo, franco e luso – africanas. Vamos procurar situar os dados literários teoréticos pós-coloniais dentro das diversas culturas e histórias africanas que, do nosso ponto de vista, são parte do mundo pós-colonial que aqui circunscrevemos. É nossa intenção sublinhar assim o grande dinamismo literário e o debate que caracterizam esta área de estudos.
Fazendo uso de conhecimentos da teoria literária atual e dos estudos pós-coloniais recentes, pretendemos salientar o percurso da atividade longa e determinada dos intelectuais indígenas nos países anglófonos, francófonos e lusófonos e ao mesmo tempo desenvolver os meios em que a teoria póscolonial pode ser aplicada de modo localizado numa sociedade culturalmente diferente e sensível, conforme fica testemunhado na obra de autores africanos como Chinua Achebe, Luandino Vieira e Hamadou Kouroma.
This essay is written to provide fresh, in-depth perspectives on the key trends and recent debates in the field of Postcolonialism, false notion of Eurocentric Universalism and its relation to the development of Contemporary African Literatures. In the course of this essay, we shall highlight the natures, roles, and complexities of diverse histories and cultures which constitute the ‘postcolonial’ world and at the same time explore, in broad, the study of African Literature and in particular, the relevant aspects to Anglophone, Francophone and Lusophone African Literatures. My aim is to situate postcolonial literary and theoretical materials within the African complex histories and diverse cultures which, from my own point of views, constitute the postcolonial world and at the same time, emphasize enormous literary concepts, dynamism and debate that characterise this field of studies. Based on the use of current literary and postcolonial theories as well as literary scholarship, my main objective in this essay is to stress a sense of the long histories of indigenous intellectual activity in Anglophone, Francophone and Lusophone African context and other postcolonial locations while also developing the means to apply postcolonial theory in culturally sensitive, ‘located’ ways as portrayed in the literary works of renowned African authors such as Chinua Achebe, Luandino Vieria and Hamadou Kouroma.
This essay is written to provide fresh, in-depth perspectives on the key trends and recent debates in the field of Postcolonialism, false notion of Eurocentric Universalism and its relation to the development of Contemporary African Literatures. In the course of this essay, we shall highlight the natures, roles, and complexities of diverse histories and cultures which constitute the ‘postcolonial’ world and at the same time explore, in broad, the study of African Literature and in particular, the relevant aspects to Anglophone, Francophone and Lusophone African Literatures. My aim is to situate postcolonial literary and theoretical materials within the African complex histories and diverse cultures which, from my own point of views, constitute the postcolonial world and at the same time, emphasize enormous literary concepts, dynamism and debate that characterise this field of studies. Based on the use of current literary and postcolonial theories as well as literary scholarship, my main objective in this essay is to stress a sense of the long histories of indigenous intellectual activity in Anglophone, Francophone and Lusophone African context and other postcolonial locations while also developing the means to apply postcolonial theory in culturally sensitive, ‘located’ ways as portrayed in the literary works of renowned African authors such as Chinua Achebe, Luandino Vieria and Hamadou Kouroma.
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Babilónia : Revista Lusófona de Línguas, Culturas e Tradução
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LITERATURA AFRICANA, PÓS-COLONIALISMO, TEORIA DA LITERATURA, AFRICAN LITERATURE, POSTCOLONIALISM, LITERARY THEORY