TY  - BOOK
AU  - Eleanor Jones
PY  - 2017
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9781787075979
TI  - Battleground Bodies
T2  - Gender and Sexuality in Mozambican Literature
DO  - 10.3726/b11524
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1113273
N2  - This is the first book to provide a comparative exploration of the gendered and sexual body in Mozambican literature, engaging with the work of six authors spanning different generations, styles and aesthetics. The study begins by providing a detailed and innovative survey of the dynamics of gender, sexuality and power in the Portuguese colonial and Mozambican post-independence contexts, from the nineteenth century to the turn of the millennium. This initial investigation provides the sociohistorical backdrop for in-depth analyses of representations, uses and subversions of the body in poetry and prose fiction by José Craveirinha, Noémia de Sousa, Lília Momplé, Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa, Paulina Chiziane and Suleiman Cassamo. Using a wide and interdisciplinary range of theoretical frameworks, the book offers a fresh and creative new perspective on Mozambican history, political life and literary output.
KW  - Mozambican literature, Gender and sexuality, Critical theory
LA  - English
ER  -