Introduction:

This Cycle of  International Colloquium Courses on Portuguese-language African Literature set out to present and re-think the literary systems of each African country, written in Portuguese, and has as its guiding principles:
- The critical presentation of each country’s literature, thus acknowledging an absolutely autonomous and peculiar literary, aesthetic and philosophical system, expressed in the Portuguese language;
- To set up a dialogue among the players in the aesthetic and critical production of those literatures: the writers, the national critics, Portuguese and non-Portuguese critics who work on those literatures. The aim is thus to facilitate an approach incorporating scientific excellence with regard to the different literary systems, their relation to society, the space and the time (colonial, post-independence and post-colonial). A final consideration will be directed towards the relations of each of these literatures with the history, politics, power and knowledge of their countries of origin and production.
The second edition of the Cycle will take place in 2008 and will focus on the literatures of Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau, and Sao Tome and Principe.

Guest Speakers:

Ana Mafalda Leite (Lisbon University, Portugal), Ana Paula Tavares (The Angola Historical Archive), Francisco Noa (Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique), Inocência Mata (Lisbon University, Portugal), José Luandino Vieira, Laura Cavalcante Padilha (Fluminense Federal University, Brazil), Luis Carlos Patraquim, Maria Benedita Basto (Viana do Castelo School of Further Learning, Portugal), Philip Rothwell (Rutgers University, USA), Roberto Vecchi (Bologna University, Italy).

Target Audience:

Teachers at secondary school and higher education level, students at secondary school and higher education level, researchers, public and private cultural agents, the public at large.

Registration: (max. 40 participants) Tel. 239 855 570, e-mail: ces@ces.uc.pt

Venue: CES – Colégio de S. Jerónimo, Largo D. Dinis, Coimbra

Registration deadline:

14th May – International Colloquium-Course on Mozambican Literature

18th June – International Colloquium-Course in Angolan Literature

Registration for one course:
Students and the unemployed: 25 Euros
Others: 50 Euros

Registration in both courses:
Students and the unemployed: 37.50 Euros
Others: 75 Euros

Background material will be provided. At the end of the International Colloquium-Course a certificate of attendance will be issued.

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