Dissident Authorship in Mozambique
The Case of António Quadros (1933-1994)
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 16 November 2023
- ISBN 9780198885900
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages160 pages
- Size 223x145x15 mm
- Weight 328 g
- Language English 554
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Short description:
This book is the first monograph on neglected Portuguese poet and painter António Quadros (1933-1994). It analyses the question of what it means to be an author in Mozambique through Quadros's quirky literary works, which he published under three pennames, and interrogates Barthes's and Foucault's influential theories on authorship.
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Dissident Authorship in Mozambique: the Case of António Quadros is the first monograph on the literary works of the pennames of Portuguese poet and painter António Quadros (1933-1994). The book uses Quadros's quirky case-- a Portuguese man who lived in colonial and post-independence Mozambique, where he published poetry and prose under three pennames--Jo?o Pedro Grabato Dias, Frey Ioannes Garabatus, and Mutimati Barnabé Jo?oto--to examine the question of what it means to be an author in Mozambique and how authorship changed after the end of Portuguese colonial rule. Quadros's engagement with the question of the authors' place and function in authoritarian contexts stands as a fruitful counterpoint to the influential essays by Roland Barthes ('The Death of the Author', 1968) and Michel Foucault ('What is an Author?', 1969), the publication of which coincided with Quadros's literary début in 1968. Quadros's interesting and useful contributions to the question of Mozambican authorship are analysed in historical context and read alongside postcolonial and decolonial theory.
Tom Stennett address the political implications of Barthes's and Foucault's erasure of authorial identity and their respective challenges to authorial authority. He makes the case for an approach to the question of authorship that takes into account the anonymous agents and institutions--such as editors, political parties and the State--that are involved in the conferring of authority onto certain authors and readers. In contrast to much extant scholarship on Mozambican authorship, which has tended to focus on questions related to identity and canonicity, Dissident Authorship addresses these themes as well as those of readership, authority, power, and representation.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Late Coloniality and Post-coloniality in Mozambique
The Shifting Identity of Jo?o Pedro Grabato Dias
Duplicitous Writers and Totalitarian Readers in As Quybyrycas (1972)
The Idiosyncratic Anti-Colonial Poetics of Joa?o Pedro Grabato Dias's A Arca (1971)
I, the People: Onymous, Anonymous and Collective Subjects in Eu, o Povo
Quadros and His Readers
Conclusion
Bibliography
Dissident Authorship in Mozambique: The Case of António Quadros (1933-1994)
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