Abstract

This seminar will give a brief presentation of the research project on literatures of the Indian Ocean, from Mozambican literature. This project has the direction of Francisco Noa and is taking place at the Centre for Social Studies - Aquino de Bragança, in Maputo.

Bio note

Francisco Noa has a degree in Modern Languages and Literatures - Portuguese Studies (1991), MA in Comparative Literary Studies with the thesis Poetic Itinerary of Rui Knopfli. Another dimension of Mozambican Literature (1995) and doctorate in African Literatures of Portuguese  Language, with the thesis Colonial Literature. Representation and Legitimacy - Mozambique as a literary invention (2001) from Universidade Nova de Lisboa. He is an essayist and professor of Mozambican literature at the University Eduardo Mondlane in Maputo and associate researcher at the Centre for Social Studies (CES), University of Coimbra. He was director and researcher at the Centre for Social Studies Aquino Bragança (CESAB) in Maputo, until the beginning of 2015, and is currently Rector of the Lúrio University (UniLurio) in Nampula, Mozambique. He is Visiting Professor, supervisor and examiner of theses in national universities and abroad, and has taken on several management positions in higher education institutions. Among his publications are: 1997: Literatura Moçambicana: Memória e Conflito. Maputo: Imprensa Universitária; 1998: A Escrita Infinita. Maputo: Livraria Universitária; 2002: Império, Mito e Miopia. Moçambique como Invenção Literária. Lisbon: Caminho; 2008: A Letra, a Sombra e Água. Ensaios & Dispersões. Maputo: Texto Editores; 2012: Perto do Fragmento, a Totalidade. Olhares sobre a literatura e o mundo. Maputo: Ndjira; 2013: A escrita Infinita. Ensaios sobre literatura moçambicana. Maputo: Njira

Activity within the  Humanities, Migration and Peace Studies Research Group (NHUMEP)