Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- An Interview with Mia Couto
- 1 Mia Couto in Context
- 2 Uma coisa fraterna Mia Couto & the Mutumbela Gogo Theater Group
- 3 Reading Raiz de orvalho Counterpointing Literary Genres in the Work of Mia Couto
- 4 Spaces of Magic Mia Couto’s Relational Practices
- 5 Mia Couto or the Art of Storytelling
- 6 The Multiple Worlds of Mia Couto
- 7 ‘Ask Life’ Animism & the Metaphysical Detective
- 8 Mia Couto & Translation
- 9 Jesusalém Empty Fathers & Women’s Texts
- 10 Trauma Repetition & Pure Repetition in The Tuner of Silences
- 11 Seeing Like a Crocodile Bird Mia Couto’s The Last Flight of the Flamingo
- 12 Mia Couto & Nostalgia Reading The Last Flight of the Flamingo
- 13 Mia Couto, Contexts & Issues A Bibliographic Essay
- Bibliography
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 May 2021
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- An Interview with Mia Couto
- 1 Mia Couto in Context
- 2 Uma coisa fraterna Mia Couto & the Mutumbela Gogo Theater Group
- 3 Reading Raiz de orvalho Counterpointing Literary Genres in the Work of Mia Couto
- 4 Spaces of Magic Mia Couto’s Relational Practices
- 5 Mia Couto or the Art of Storytelling
- 6 The Multiple Worlds of Mia Couto
- 7 ‘Ask Life’ Animism & the Metaphysical Detective
- 8 Mia Couto & Translation
- 9 Jesusalém Empty Fathers & Women’s Texts
- 10 Trauma Repetition & Pure Repetition in The Tuner of Silences
- 11 Seeing Like a Crocodile Bird Mia Couto’s The Last Flight of the Flamingo
- 12 Mia Couto & Nostalgia Reading The Last Flight of the Flamingo
- 13 Mia Couto, Contexts & Issues A Bibliographic Essay
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
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- A Companion to Mia Couto , pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2016