de Medeiros, Paulo (2020) Mia Couto and the antinomies of world literature. In: Van Haesendonck, Kristian, (ed.) The Worlds of Mia Couto. Re-Configuring Identities in the Portuguese-Speaking World (15). Oxford: Peter Lang, pp. 11-31. ISBN 9781788745949

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Abstract

Mia Couto has been recognised internationally as one of the most important African authors of our times. His rapidly growing opus shifts fluidly between various modes of writing, mixing historical elements with poetic and autobiographic ones, in often unpredictable and intellectually challenging ways. With each new book, the writer multiplies various original wor(l)ds, creating new challenges for his readers. Each of Couto’s texts opens up a rhizomic world which in turn contains (an)other world(s), inviting us to review and adjust our earlier interpretations of his oeuvre as a whole.

In The Worlds of Mia Couto a diverse group of literary experts sets out to explore Mia Couto’s oeuvre in relation not only to the imaginary worlds created by the author but also to the complex geographical, cultural and literary contexts that are woven into the texture of his work. While Couto has increasingly received scholarly attention, the international connections and connectivities of his work have been largely neglected so far. This book endeavours to show that Couto’s work can be read beyond its particular Mozambican and Lusophone context by paying attention to the broader African and global literary contexts, including Latin America, Asia and Europe. Mia Couto’s work is, for instance, of particular interest for rethinking, from the margins, established concepts of «World Literature», «globalisation» and the «postcolonial». The various chapters of The Worlds of Mia Couto focus thus on some of the – often unexpected – international connections across his fictional and non-fictional work beyond the Lusophone literary space, crossing cultural, linguistic and gender boundaries.

Item Type:	Book Item
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PC Romance languages P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) P Language and Literature > PQ Romance literatures
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts > English and Comparative Literary Studies
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Couto, Mia, 1955- -- Criticism and interpretation, Realism in literature, Antinomy in literature
Series Name:	Re-Configuring Identities in the Portuguese-Speaking World
Publisher:	Peter Lang
Place of Publication:	Oxford
ISBN:	9781788745949
Book Title:	The Worlds of Mia Couto
Editor:	Van Haesendonck, Kristian
Official Date:	September 2020
Dates:	Date Event September 2020 Published
Number:	15
Page Range:	pp. 11-31
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Publisher Statement:	This is a Accepted Manuscript that has been published in The Worlds of Mia Couto edited by Kristian Van Haesendonck in the series Re-Configuring Identities in the Portuguese-Speaking World. The original work can be found at: https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/68952 © Peter Lang AG, 2020. All rights reserved.
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