Fernando Arenas
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816669837
- eISBN:
- 9781452946948
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816669837.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, World Modern History
This chapter illustrates an analytical framework for understanding the development of Lusophone Africa in relation to the Portuguese-speaking world, particularly Portugal and Brazil. The ...
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This chapter illustrates an analytical framework for understanding the development of Lusophone Africa in relation to the Portuguese-speaking world, particularly Portugal and Brazil. The interconnectedness between the nations within the “Lusophone transatlantic matrix” sprang from their collective experience of Portuguese colonialism and the slave trade that also involved both the colonial and independent Brazil. The chapter also details Lusophone Africa’s ideological, cultural, political, and material linkages with Portugal and Brazil, all of which are grounded in the colonial era. It highlights the emergence of Afro-Portuguese culture; the impact of Brazilian popular culture to Africa, as well as Brazil’s African roots; the dissemination of Portuguese and Brazilian media across Lusophone Africa; and the developing economic and political relations of Africa to both Portugal and Brazil.Less
This chapter illustrates an analytical framework for understanding the development of Lusophone Africa in relation to the Portuguese-speaking world, particularly Portugal and Brazil. The interconnectedness between the nations within the “Lusophone transatlantic matrix” sprang from their collective experience of Portuguese colonialism and the slave trade that also involved both the colonial and independent Brazil. The chapter also details Lusophone Africa’s ideological, cultural, political, and material linkages with Portugal and Brazil, all of which are grounded in the colonial era. It highlights the emergence of Afro-Portuguese culture; the impact of Brazilian popular culture to Africa, as well as Brazil’s African roots; the dissemination of Portuguese and Brazilian media across Lusophone Africa; and the developing economic and political relations of Africa to both Portugal and Brazil.
Fernando Arenas
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816669837
- eISBN:
- 9781452946948
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816669837.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, World Modern History
This chapter examines the films produced in Angola, Cape Verde, Mozambique, and Guinea-Bissau in view of the emergence of the market economy model and multiparty politics in the late 1980s. It ...
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This chapter examines the films produced in Angola, Cape Verde, Mozambique, and Guinea-Bissau in view of the emergence of the market economy model and multiparty politics in the late 1980s. It features film directors Flora Gomes and Licínio Azevedo, along with several archetypal examples of Angolan and Cape Verdean films. The movie industry had a significant part in illustrating Lusophone Africa’s liberation struggles and in campaigning for the political movements that surfaced following its independence. The chapter begins by discussing the roles of Angola and Mozambique in the history of early African cinema, its geopolitics, and the politics of film language. It then presents a study of the cinematic depiction of the effects of civil war in both countries.Less
This chapter examines the films produced in Angola, Cape Verde, Mozambique, and Guinea-Bissau in view of the emergence of the market economy model and multiparty politics in the late 1980s. It features film directors Flora Gomes and Licínio Azevedo, along with several archetypal examples of Angolan and Cape Verdean films. The movie industry had a significant part in illustrating Lusophone Africa’s liberation struggles and in campaigning for the political movements that surfaced following its independence. The chapter begins by discussing the roles of Angola and Mozambique in the history of early African cinema, its geopolitics, and the politics of film language. It then presents a study of the cinematic depiction of the effects of civil war in both countries.
Fernando Arenas
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816669837
- eISBN:
- 9781452946948
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816669837.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, World Modern History
This book is a study of the contemporary cultural production of Portuguese-speaking Africa and its critical engagement with globalization in the aftermath of colonialism, especially since the advent ...
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This book is a study of the contemporary cultural production of Portuguese-speaking Africa and its critical engagement with globalization in the aftermath of colonialism, especially since the advent of multiparty politics and market-oriented economies. Exploring the evolving relationship of Lusophone Africa with Portugal, its former colonial power, and Brazil, this book situates the countries on the geopolitical map of contemporary global forces. Drawing from popular music, film, literature, cultural history, geopolitics, and critical theory to investigate the postcolonial condition of Portuguese-speaking Africa, the book offers an entirely original discussion of world music phenomenon Cesária Évora, as well as the most thorough examination to date of Lusophone African cinema and of Angolan post-civil-war fiction. The book evokes the rich multidimensionality of this community of African nations as a whole and of its individual parts: Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, and Mozambique, and São TomÉ and Príncipe since they gained their independence in the mid-1970s. In doing so, he puts forth a conceptual framework for understanding, for the first time, recent cultural and historical developments in Portuguese-speaking Africa.Less
This book is a study of the contemporary cultural production of Portuguese-speaking Africa and its critical engagement with globalization in the aftermath of colonialism, especially since the advent of multiparty politics and market-oriented economies. Exploring the evolving relationship of Lusophone Africa with Portugal, its former colonial power, and Brazil, this book situates the countries on the geopolitical map of contemporary global forces. Drawing from popular music, film, literature, cultural history, geopolitics, and critical theory to investigate the postcolonial condition of Portuguese-speaking Africa, the book offers an entirely original discussion of world music phenomenon Cesária Évora, as well as the most thorough examination to date of Lusophone African cinema and of Angolan post-civil-war fiction. The book evokes the rich multidimensionality of this community of African nations as a whole and of its individual parts: Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, and Mozambique, and São TomÉ and Príncipe since they gained their independence in the mid-1970s. In doing so, he puts forth a conceptual framework for understanding, for the first time, recent cultural and historical developments in Portuguese-speaking Africa.
Robin Fiddian
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780853235668
- eISBN:
- 9781846313851
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9780853235668.003.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Latin American Studies
This chapter explores the possible links between postcolonial studies and the cultures of Latin America and Lusophone Africa. The essay of J. Jorge Klor de Alva is dealt to formulate both the ...
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This chapter explores the possible links between postcolonial studies and the cultures of Latin America and Lusophone Africa. The essay of J. Jorge Klor de Alva is dealt to formulate both the temporal and geopolitical dimension, and the critical dimension of postcoloniality. These dimensions are described by Peter Hulme and Walter Mignolo in ‘Including America’ and ‘La razón postcolonial: herencias coloniales y teorías postcoloniales’, respectively. This chapter reveals that the associations with Latin America situate Lusophone Africa within an even wider network of political and cultural relations. An overview of the chapters included in this book is presented.Less
This chapter explores the possible links between postcolonial studies and the cultures of Latin America and Lusophone Africa. The essay of J. Jorge Klor de Alva is dealt to formulate both the temporal and geopolitical dimension, and the critical dimension of postcoloniality. These dimensions are described by Peter Hulme and Walter Mignolo in ‘Including America’ and ‘La razón postcolonial: herencias coloniales y teorías postcoloniales’, respectively. This chapter reveals that the associations with Latin America situate Lusophone Africa within an even wider network of political and cultural relations. An overview of the chapters included in this book is presented.
Fernando Arenas
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816669837
- eISBN:
- 9781452946948
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816669837.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, World Modern History
This chapter presents some final thoughts. As a group, Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, and São TomÉ and Príncipe represent an epitome of the African continent with splendid variations ...
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This chapter presents some final thoughts. As a group, Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, and São TomÉ and Príncipe represent an epitome of the African continent with splendid variations of population, land mass, geopolitical authority, and economic structure. In general, the book focuses on gaps in Lusophone Africa’s democratization process and the absence of total economic independence, albeit the political autonomy of its nation-states is undisputed. The outcome of Africa’s independence meant a transition from autocratic one-party states and integrated economies to market-oriented multiparty states, and is an indication of both a shortfall in social justice and abundance of idealistic hope.Less
This chapter presents some final thoughts. As a group, Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, and São TomÉ and Príncipe represent an epitome of the African continent with splendid variations of population, land mass, geopolitical authority, and economic structure. In general, the book focuses on gaps in Lusophone Africa’s democratization process and the absence of total economic independence, albeit the political autonomy of its nation-states is undisputed. The outcome of Africa’s independence meant a transition from autocratic one-party states and integrated economies to market-oriented multiparty states, and is an indication of both a shortfall in social justice and abundance of idealistic hope.
