Mapping the Post-Colonial Atlantic

Cultural and Literary Interactions

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51427/com.jcs.2024.05.0001

Keywords:

Atlantic studies, postcolonial perspectives, coloniality, cultural interactions

Abstract

The collection of essays presented in this volume, the fifth issue of Compendium, provides a literary and cultural mapping of the Atlantic that, through a critical-theoretical post-colonial perspective and a comparative approach, enables us to (re)assess the circulation of texts and cultures within the Atlantic space in the light of unequal power relations that are intrinsic to colonial modernity. Furthermore, the collection highlights the multiple forms of micro- and macro-physical violence underlying contemporary migrations which have always borne the scars of the colonial nature of knowledge and power. This dossiercomprises a series of essays that engage in dialogue with the social sciences, pedagogy, and literary studies, alongside two critical reviews.

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Author Biographies

Inocência Mata, University of Lisbon, Portugal

Inocência Mata holds a PhD in Letters from the University of Lisbon, specializing in African Literatures, with a post-doctorate in Postcolonial Studies (Postcolonial Studies, Identity, Ethnicity, and Globalization, University of California, Berkeley). She is a professor at the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon (FLUL) in the area of Literatures, Arts and Cultures, and a member of the Center for Comparative Studies (CEComp). From 2014 to 2028, she was a visiting professor at the University of Macau, where she was deputy head of the Portuguese Department and director of the Center for Luso-Asian Studies.

Luca Fazzini, University of Lisbon, Portugal

Luca Fazzini is a research fellow at the Centre for Comparative Studies (CEComp), University of Lisbon, and sub-director of the PhD programme in Portuguese as a Foreign/Second Language, at the same institution. He is the author of Versões do Horror: Guerra e Testemunho no Romance Português e Italiano Contemporâneo and he has a personal Research Project, “Lisbon as an Afro-Atlantic City: Postcolonial Perspective for a Comparative Approach in Portuguese”. He is also a member of the FCT Research Project “The Portuguese Colonial Literature: Beyond the memory of the empire” and Brazilian Research Group “Afropeans-Port: Afropeans writing in Portuguese”.

Roberto Francavilla , University of Genoa, Italy

Roberto Francavilla is Full Professor of Portuguese and Brazilian Literature at the University of Genoa and also works on African literatures. He is a translator and holds workshops on Theory and Practice of Literary Translation. A founding member of various scientific and cultural associations, he directs the American Studies series ‘Igarapé’ and co-directs the Portuguese poetry series ‘Da Ocidental Praia’. His latest book is Quel che il mare non vuole – Letteratura e paesaggio in Portogallo (Mimesis, 23). He edited, among others, Fernando Pessoa’s Il secondo libro dell’inquietudine and Clarice Lispector’s Tutti i racconti.

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Published

2024-06-28

How to Cite

Mata, Inocência, Luca Fazzini, and Roberto Francavilla. 2024. “Mapping the Post-Colonial Atlantic: Cultural and Literary Interactions”. Compendium: Journal of Comparative Studies | Revista De Estudos Comparatistas, no. 5 (June). Lisboa, Portugal:3–10. https://doi.org/10.51427/com.jcs.2024.05.0001.

Issue

No. 5 (2024): Writing the Post-Colonial Atlantic: Histories, Stories, and Memorialist Discourses

Section

Foreword | Introdução

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