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10. Reevaluating Mozambique

Guest editor: Phillip Rothwell, Rutgers University, New Brunswick.

Despite the critical tone of many of the articles in this collection, today's Mozambique has the potential to become a true success story, not as designated by the outside world, but as determined from within. The fact that critical voices are now raised, as much in the rich cultural output of the nation as in the structures of civil society, raises the possibility of a tangible improvement in the lives of ordinary Mozambicans, since every problem must be recognised before a solution can be reached. Chiziane's interrogation of patriarchal practice, Momplé's portrayal of corruption and abject poverty, Couto's depiction of senseless violence, refashion our image of Mozambique away from the utopian paradise-in-the-making that it never was towards a more profound questioning of the problems that this very young nation faces. What remains to be seen is whether Mozambique will finally be allowed to determine its own destiny or whether that small window between the fall of communism and the obliterating rise of the hegemony of world trade was too brief to permit a meaningful Mozambican identity to come into being.

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Introduction: Reevaluating Mozambique
Phillip Rothwell
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Articles/Artigos

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The Politics of Negative Peace: Mozambique in the Aftermath of the Rome Cease-Fire Agreement
Elísio Macamo and Dieter Neubert

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Appearances and Realities of Post-War Reconstruction in Mozambique
Branwen Gruffydd Jones

69  

(Lost) Love, Eros and Metaphor: Colonialism, Social Fragmentation and the "Burden" of Race in Portagem by Orlando Mendes
Geoffrey S. Mitchell

87  

On Cross-Border Languages and Cross-Border Collaboration between Malawi and Mozambique
Gregory Kamwendo

105  

Mia Couto or the Art of Storytelling
Patrick Chabal

131  

Terra Sonâmbula: Manifestações de uma "Odisséia" Africana no Moçambique Pós-Independência
Robert Moser

 153  

A Feminist Dance of Love, Eroticism, and Life: Paulina Chiziane’s Novelistic Recreation of Tradition and Language in Postcolonial Mozambique
Russell G. Hamilton

169  

The Serpent’s Tongue: Gendering Autoethnography in Paulina Chiziane’s Balada de Amor ao Vento
Hilary Owen

185  

Em torno de Modelos no Romance Moçambicano
Ana Mafalda Leite

201  

História Literária em Angola e Moçambique e Fixação do Cânone da Crítica
Ana Maria Martinho

215  

Mozambique in Transition in the Narratives of Lília Momplé
Claire Williams

231  

Remembering the First Multiparty Elections

233  

"Já Votei"
Malangatana

 235  

1994 Election Posters and Ballot Papers

Reviews/Recensões

251  

Vinte e Nove Assaltos ou os Novos Pactos. Outras ficções: Ensaios sobre literaturas afro-luso-brasileiras, de Laura Cavalcante Padilha.
Margarida Calafate Ribeiro

257  

Luís Adriano Carlos (ed). Arvore: Folhas de Poesia. Facsimile.
Porto: Campo das Letras, 2003.
Daniela Kato

261  

Silvina Rodrigues Lopes. A Inocência do Devir.
Lisboa, Vendaval, 2003.
Pedro Eiras

265  

Elizabeth Travassos. Modernismo e música brasileira.
Rio de Janeiro: Jorge Zahar, 2003 (1ª ed., 2000).
Pedro Meira Monteiro

271  

David Brookshaw. Perceptions of China in Modern Portuguese Literature: Border Gates.
Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 2002.
Claire Williams

273  

Kathleen E. Sheldon. Pounders of Grain: A History of Women, Work and Politics in Mozambique.
Portsmouth: Heinemann, 2002.
Hilary Owen

277  

João Costa (ed). Portuguese Syntax: New Comparative Studies.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
José Elías Ulloa

281  

Luitgarde O.C. Barros. A Derradeira Gesta: Lampião e Nazarenos Guerreando no Sertão.
São Paulo: Muad, 2000.
Maria-Eugênia D.C. Freitas

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Ana Paula Ferreira (ed). A Urgência de Contar: Contos de Mulheres dos Anos 40.
Lisboa: Caminho, 2000.
Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez

289  

María Xosé Rodríguez Galdo and Daniel Varela-Suanzes-Carpegna (orgs). Galicia & América: Cinco Siglos de Historia.
Coruña: Consello Da Cultura Galega, 1992.
Yeon-Soo Kim