Gender and Empire in Mozambican Fictions of Ngungunyane
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hpn.2024.a929136" target="_blank" >10.1353/hpn.2024.a929136</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Gender and Empire in Mozambican Fictions of Ngungunyane
Original language description
This article considers twenty-first-century Mozambican works of fiction that contest the foundational status of nineteenth-century Gazan emperor Ngungunyane (circa 1850–1906) to Mozambique’s postcolonial nationalism as a symbolic representation of ongoing imperial patriarchy. A century after Ngungunyane’s defeat by the Portuguese, Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa published Ualalapi, widely read as a devastating critique of Mozambique’s FRELIMO party’s postcolonial politics as a continuation of Ngungunyane’s bloody reign. A series of subsequent works respond to Ualalapi’s critique: Mia Couto’s As areias do imperador trilogy, Khosa’s As mulheres do imperador, and Paulina Chiziane’s As andorinhas. These works deploy female protagonists and narrative experimentation to respond to Ngungunyane’s famous final speech in Ualalapi. I argue that each of the contemporary works break the speech’s imperial logic in different ways. Khosa, Couto, and Chiziane show that an excess of empire pervades contemporary rewritings of this history. These works draw on female voices and a constellation of anti-imperial communities of Black women—what philosopher María Lugones has theorized as a coalition and through Michelle M. Wright has analyzed through the dialogic—to break colonial-postcolonial continuities of power and imagine different futures in their wake. AATSP Copyright © 2024.
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)
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Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Hispania
ISSN
00182133
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Volume of the periodical
107
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2-3
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
14
Pages from-to
397 - 410
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85195442214