Postcolonial Nation and Narrative III: Literature & Cinema

CONTENTS: Ana Mafalda Leite: Introduction: Postcolonial Nation and Narrative, Cinema and Literature – Paulo de Medeiros: Lusophone Cinemas in Transnational Perspective – Ute Fendler: African Cinema: A Transnational Cinema?: The Decolonial Cinema of Flora Gomes – Ellen W. Sapega: The ‘Sounds’ of Lusophony: The Question of Language in Two Films with Cape Verdean Themes – Sheila Khan: Between Realities and Scenarios: Duty and Authority to Narrate the Nation between Images – Carmen Lúcia Tindó Secco: José Carlos Schwarz’s Poetics and the Guinean Nation: Relations between Cinema, Literature, Music, Memory and History – Elena Brugioni: The Prayers of Mansata by Abdulai Sila: Performing the Postcolony – Joana Passos: Flora Gomes: Resilient Hope on Scant Chances – Jusciele Conceição Almeida de Oliveira and Mirian Tavares: Authorial Features in African Cinema: The Case of the Guinean Flora Gomes – Mark Sabine: Where Is Cabral? Postnational Culture and Liberation in Nha fala – Jane Tutikian: When the Chess Board Had Only White Pieces: A Study of Ilhéu de Contenda, the Book and the Film – Hilary Owen: In Search of the White Father: Filming the Island of Fogo in the Cinema of Pedro Costa and Leão Lopes – Doris Wieser: Wreckage, Fragments and Non-Places: The Life of Cape Verdean Immigrants in Cavalo Dinheiro by Pedro Costa – Jessica Falconi: Intertwining Histories: Documentary Narratives on São Tomé and Cape Verde – Kamila Krakowska: Zooming in on the Edges: Narratives of the Santomean Nation in the Documentaries of Ângelo Torres – Emanuelle Santos: After Nationalism: Literary Configurations of Contemporary Postcolonialities in Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau and São Tomé e Príncipe – Luís Madureira: ‘Eva das Mil Pessoas’: Politics and Hyper-sexuality in Germano Almeida’s Eva