Between nation, post-empire, and world-literature: African and European institutions in the worlding of African lusophone literatures case studies: José Eduardo Agualusa and João Melo.
African Lusophone literatures are largely a Portuguese product: the very construction of literary corpora though book editing and printing was mainly led by Portuguese publishers before and after independence. Other non-African institutions (universities, literary agents, critics) were largely respo...
| Publicado en: | Neohelicon Vol. 50; no. 1; pp. 117 - 132 |
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