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Lusophone Literatures

2008; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 23; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/02690050801954526

1747-1508

Joana Passos,

Literature, Culture, and Criticism

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. The work of critic Margarida Calafate Ribeiro Ribeiro , Margarida Calafate . Uma História de Regressos . Porto : Ediç[otilde]es Afrontamento , 2004 . [Google Scholar], available in English, is a good starting point to discover these and other authors in the ‘war literature’ series, as is the Heaventree Press series of translated Lusophone poetry. 2. On Orlanda Amarílis see Joana Passos, Mirco-universes and Situated Critical Theory 159–167; Moura, Heloísa Corrêa, Clarice Lispector e Orlanda Amarílis MA Dissertation (São Paulo: Dedalus, 2001); Santilli, Maria Aparecida, ‘Orlanda Amarílis’, in Revista de Letras (São Paul: uesp. 23: 63–70); Santos, Sónia Maria, ‘Experiências Femininas no Quotidiano Crioulo’, Críticas e Ensaios (http://www.uea-angola.org). For Dina Salústio, see Passos 171–177. Dina Salústio is on the reading list of Professor Inocência Mata for the Curso de Literaturas Africanas de Expressão Portuguesa, Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa. Professor Hilary Owen (University of Manchester) is currently supervising a PhD dissertation on Dina Salústio. Vera Duarte is better known as she has won several awards: the Prix Tchiacaya U Tam'Si for African poetry (2001), the Prémio Norte-Sul for Human Rights Activism by the Center North–South of the European Council (1995), first prize by the Association of Writers of Angola (2004) and a number of national awards in Cape Verde. She has published one poetry collection, Amanhã Amadrugada (Lisboa: Vega, 1993) and a novel, O Arquipélago da Paixão (Cabo Verde: Artiletra, 2001). 3. Ten years of independence war, from 1964 to 1974; civil war between FRELIMO and RENAMO, 1977–1992. FRELIMO was the movement that organised the independence struggle, mostly backed up by ethnic groups from the north and south provinces. RENAMO was stronger with ethnic groups of the centre provinces. Initially, the popular backing for FRELIMO was massive. In 1977, FRELIMO became a Marxist–Leninist one-party system. RENAMO lived off the discontents: the emergent small bourgeoisie, who expected to take the place of the Portuguese and felt marginalised, the peasants who coveted the lands of the big farms and saw them nationalised, FRELIMO dissidents, the remains of the Portuguese secret police, pro-capitalist sectors inside the country and traditional aristocracies (which were abolished). FRELIMO were sponsored by Rhodesia and South Africa, from where terror campaigns and destabilising strategies were organised.