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Cultural Change and Literary Expression in Mozambique

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

Russel Hamilton
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Extract

The problem of cultural change in the People’s Republic of Mozambique can be reduced to the question: how can certain indigenous traditions, values, customs, and art forms be combined with other domestic or imported values and modes of cultural expression and brought into line with new social structures?

Type
Research Article
Information
African Issues , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , Spring 1978 , pp. 39 - 42
Copyright
Copyright © African Studies Association 1978 

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References

Notes

1. “Ofensiva Cultural das Classes Trabalhadores,” Tempo, 17 April 1977, p. 24.

2. Luís Bernardo Honwana, “The Role of Poetry in the Mozambican Revolution,” Lotus: Afro-Asian Writing, 8 (1971 ), 152.

3. “Nouvelle Somme de Poesie du Monde Noir,” Présence Africaine, no. 57, 1966, p. 468 (translation mine).

4. José Craveirinha, Karingana ua Karingana (Lourenpo Marques: Edição de Academia, 1974), p. 105 (translation mine).

5. Honwana, p. 158.

6. Maria Natália Teixeira Lopes, ed., Poesia de Combate (Lisbon: Publicações Nova Aurora, 1974), p. 11 (translation mine).

7. Margaret Dickinson, ed., When Bullets Begin to Flower: Poems of Resistance from Angola, Mozambique, and Cuine (nairobi: East African Publishing House, 1972), p. 116.

8. Ibid., pp. 128-29.

9. “Do Chibalo a Tropa,” Tempo, 12 June 1977, pp. 38-41.

10. Djinga, “Poeta Operário,” Tempo, 8 May 1977, p. 45 (translation mine).

11. “Literatura: Nota Introdutória,” Tempo, 8 May 1977, p. 45.

12. “Alienação—Um Mergulho no Mundo de Xiconhoca,” Tempo, 18 September 1977, pp. 19-20.