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| Title: | Early literary reactions to the Portuguese presence in Angola |
| Author: | Carter, Janet E. |
| Year: | 1990 |
| Periodical: | African Studies |
| Volume: | 49 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Pages: | 49-58 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Angola |
| Subjects: | literature Portuguese language Literature, Mass Media and the Press History and Exploration colonialism |
| External link: | https://doi.org/10.1080/00020189008707716 |
| Abstract: | The term 'colonial literature' tends to be used to refer globally to the literary texts which support, either explicitly or implicitly, colonial ideology. A perusal of works in Portuguese usually classified as 'colonial literature' shows that such texts can differ considerably in style, aim and motivation. The author argues that 'colonial literature' forms but part of what might be thought of as a wider literary universe, and the object of this paper is to clarify this universe for the Angolan case and to specify the use of the term. This review of literary texts written in Angola or focussing on Angola, includes very different works. In order to classify these works, the author proposes the introduction of new terms. She suggests using 'colonial literature' to refer generally to the corpus of literary texts which have Angola during its colonial period as the scene of action and/or which were written in Angola during the colonial period. Within this category, one would have to distinguish between protonationalist literature and colonialist literature. The second category should be further divided into two subcategories: explicit colonialist literature and implicit colonialist literature. Bibliogr., notes, ref. |
