Dissident Authorship in Mozambique: the Case of António Quadros is the first monograph on the literary works of the pennames of Portuguese poet and painter António Quadros (1933-1994). The book uses Quadros's quirky case-- a Portuguese man who lived in colonial and post-independence Mozambique, where he published poetry and prose under three pennames--João Pedro Grabato Dias, Frey Ioannes Garabatus, and Mutimati Barnabé Joãoto--to examine the question of what it means to be an author in Mozambique and how authorship changed after the end of Portuguese colonial rule. Quadros's engagement with the question of the authors' place and function in authoritarian contexts stands as a fruitful counterpoint to the influential essays by Roland Barthes ('The Death of the Author', 1968) and Michel Foucault ('What is an Author?', 1969), the publication of which coincided with Quadros's literary début in 1968. Quadros's interesting and useful contributions to the question of Mozambican authorship are analysed in historical context and read alongside postcolonial and decolonial theory. Tom Stennett address the political implications of Barthes's and Foucault's erasure of authorial identity and their respective challenges to authorial authority. He makes the case for an approach to the question of authorship that takes into account the anonymous agents and institutions--such as editors, political parties and the State--that are involved in the conferring of authority onto certain authors and readers. In contrast to much extant scholarship on Mozambican authorship, which has tended to focus on questions related to identity and canonicity, Dissident Authorship addresses these themes as well as those of readership, authority, power, and representation.
By:
Stennett
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 223mm,
Width: 145mm,
Spine: 15mm
Weight: 328g
ISBN: 9780198885900
ISBN 10: 0198885903
Series: Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 22 February 2024
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Acknowledgements Introduction 1: Late Coloniality and Post-coloniality in Mozambique 2: The Shifting Identity of João Pedro Grabato Dias 3: Duplicitous Writers and Totalitarian Readers in As Quybyrycas (1972) 4: The Idiosyncratic Anti-Colonial Poetics of Joa?o Pedro Grabato Dias's A Arca (1971) 5: I, the People: Onymous, Anonymous and Collective Subjects in Eu, o Povo 6: Quadros and His Readers Conclusion Bibliography
Tom Stennett is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Exeter, UK, where he is working on interconnections of politics and literature in Angola and Mozambique. He has published peer-reviewed articles on Mozambican and Portuguese fiction and translation studies in Portuguese Studies, Comparative Critical Studies, and Estudos da AIL (International Association of Lusitanists).
