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The eruption of insular identities : a comparative study of Azorean and Cape Verdean prose / Brianna Medeiros.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Medeiros, Brianna, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Portuguese literature--Azores--History and criticism.
- Portuguese literature.
- Cabo Verdean literature--History and criticism.
- Cabo Verdean literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (281 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Eastbourne, UK : Sussex Academic Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- The Eruption of Insular Identities explores themes common to the literatures of the Azores and Cape Verde, two isolated archipelagos in the former Portuguese empire but contemporaneously in the Portuguese-speaking world. In the 1930s, writers from both archipelagoes initiated projects to explore acorianidade and caboverdianidade, firmly placing narratives within their respective regional spaces, a tradition that would be continued by following generations. Despite vast differences in the realities in the two archipelagos in terms of race and politics, the insularity lent itself to two bodies of literature with striking similarities. The authors aim is to set out these similarities as a means to understanding the differences in rhetoric and treatment of this commonality. Earlier scholarly work has suggested the comparison, but this book is the first extensive study comparing the literatures of the two archipelagoes. Within the field of Lusophone studies, the study of Lusophone African literatures are gaining international literary appeal. Cape Verdean writer Germano Almeida won the Premio Camoes in 2018, one of the most prestigious awards for Portuguese-language authors. His work is explored extensively in the volume. The Eruption of Insular Identities provides a perspective on Cape Verdean literature that brings to the fore the nations social reality and literary production its individual insularity which distances it from most of the other Lusophone African nations. And it provides an in-depth comparison to the second region under study, the Azores.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-78284-692-1
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