Saturday 21 July 2007

RECENT PUBLICATIONS ON "LUSOPHONE AFRICA"

M. Anne Pitcher with Aubrey Graham, "Cars are Killing Luanda: Cronyism,
Consumerism and Other Assaults on Angola's Postwar, Capital City" in Martin Murray and Garth Myers, eds., _Cities in Contemporary Africa_, pp. 173-199 (NY: Palgrave, 2006). The chapter uses cars as the "vehicle" through which to analyze Angola's postwar political economy; includes a photographic essay.

Cristina Udelsmann Rodrigues, "From Family Solidarity to Social Classes: Urban Stratification in Angola (Luanda and Ondjiva)," _Journal of Southern African Studies_ 33, 2 (June 2007): 235-250.

Stefan Helgesson, "Shifting Fields: Imagining Literary Renewal in
Itinerário and Drum," Research in African Literatures 38, 2 (Summer 2007).

Linda Ledford-Miller, "'So Few and Yet So Little Known': Historical
Recovery and Reconstruction in the Work of Lilìa Momplé," Africa (Rome) 61(2006): 564-82.

George E. Brooks, "Cabo Verde, Gulag of the South Atlantic: Racism, Fishing Prohibitions, and Famines," _History in Africa_ v. 33 (2006): 101-135.

Darlene Miller, "Changing African Cityscapes: Regional Claims of African Labor at South African-Owned Shopping Malls," in Cities in Contemporary Africa, ed., Martin Murray and Garth Myers (Palgrave, 2006) - this article includes a look at Maputo's Shoprite mall, opened in 1997.

Augusto Nascimento, Entre o mundo e as ilhas. O associativismo são-tomense nos primeiros decénios de Novecentos, S. Tomé, UNEAS, 2005

Augusto Nascimento, O fim do caminhu longi, Mindelo, Ilhéu Editora, 2007

Recent Ph.D. dissertations:

Laudemiro A. Francisco, "The State, Development and the Role of Local Economic Systems in Southern Africa: A Comparative Study of Mozambique and Botswana" (Howard Univ., 2006).

Joao Jose Pinheiro Rosa, "Diglossia in Cape-Verde: Discourses, Class, Race and the Promise of Education" (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2006).

Isabel Maria da Costa Morais, "Creolised and Colonised: The History and Future of the Macanese and Mozambican Chinese" (U. of Hong Kong, 2003).

Azaria Mbughuni, "Tanzania and the Liberation Struggle in Southern Africa, 1958-1975 (Howard Univ., 2006).

LaShonda Nate Long, "Sacred Bodies, Sacred Memories: The Black Body and Collective Memory in Contemporary Luso-Brazilian and Lusophone African Literature and Film" (UCLA, 2006)

Compiled by Kathleen Sheldon (UCLA/ H-Net)
Picture: "Encyclopedia of Pleasure" (Ghada Amer, Egypt)

M. Anne Pitcher with Aubrey Graham, "Cars are Killing Luanda: Cronyism,
Consumerism and Other Assaults on Angola's Postwar, Capital City" in Martin Murray and Garth Myers, eds., _Cities in Contemporary Africa_, pp. 173-199 (NY: Palgrave, 2006). The chapter uses cars as the "vehicle" through which to analyze Angola's postwar political economy; includes a photographic essay.

Cristina Udelsmann Rodrigues, "From Family Solidarity to Social Classes: Urban Stratification in Angola (Luanda and Ondjiva)," _Journal of Southern African Studies_ 33, 2 (June 2007): 235-250.

Stefan Helgesson, "Shifting Fields: Imagining Literary Renewal in
Itinerário and Drum," Research in African Literatures 38, 2 (Summer 2007).

Linda Ledford-Miller, "'So Few and Yet So Little Known': Historical
Recovery and Reconstruction in the Work of Lilìa Momplé," Africa (Rome) 61(2006): 564-82.

George E. Brooks, "Cabo Verde, Gulag of the South Atlantic: Racism, Fishing Prohibitions, and Famines," _History in Africa_ v. 33 (2006): 101-135.

Darlene Miller, "Changing African Cityscapes: Regional Claims of African Labor at South African-Owned Shopping Malls," in Cities in Contemporary Africa, ed., Martin Murray and Garth Myers (Palgrave, 2006) - this article includes a look at Maputo's Shoprite mall, opened in 1997.

Augusto Nascimento, Entre o mundo e as ilhas. O associativismo são-tomense nos primeiros decénios de Novecentos, S. Tomé, UNEAS, 2005

Augusto Nascimento, O fim do caminhu longi, Mindelo, Ilhéu Editora, 2007

Recent Ph.D. dissertations:

Laudemiro A. Francisco, "The State, Development and the Role of Local Economic Systems in Southern Africa: A Comparative Study of Mozambique and Botswana" (Howard Univ., 2006).

Joao Jose Pinheiro Rosa, "Diglossia in Cape-Verde: Discourses, Class, Race and the Promise of Education" (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2006).

Isabel Maria da Costa Morais, "Creolised and Colonised: The History and Future of the Macanese and Mozambican Chinese" (U. of Hong Kong, 2003).

Azaria Mbughuni, "Tanzania and the Liberation Struggle in Southern Africa, 1958-1975 (Howard Univ., 2006).

LaShonda Nate Long, "Sacred Bodies, Sacred Memories: The Black Body and Collective Memory in Contemporary Luso-Brazilian and Lusophone African Literature and Film" (UCLA, 2006)

Compiled by Kathleen Sheldon (UCLA/ H-Net)
Picture: "Encyclopedia of Pleasure" (Ghada Amer, Egypt)

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