The Late Postcolonial Condition; Twenty-First-Century Reconfigurations in the Literatures of Portuguese-Speaking Africa

This book provides a unique portrait of the late postcolonial condition in the twenty-first century, shedding new light on complex national and transnational dynamics in the development of postcolonial states in the aftermath of independence, with a particular focus on Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau, and São Tomé and Príncipe.

Emanuelle Rodrigues dos Santos is Associate Professor in Modern Languages at the University of Birmingham, where she is also the Director of the Instituto Camões’ Cátedra Gil Vicente. Her research focuses on the intersections between the cultures of the Portuguese-speaking world, postcolonial studies and theories of world literature. Her work also addresses representations of race, gender and sexuality, memory studies, world-systems theory, and decolonial critique with special attention to structures of inequality, oppression and hegemony.