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Recent Shipment of Lusophone African Literature

Posted on by Claude Potts
Map of Luso-African Literary Publishers by City
Map of Luso-African Literary Publishers by City generated by Bee Lehman

More than 80 works of literature from Angola, Cabo Verde, and Mozambique arrived in Doe Library last week. This selection of poetry, short stories, and novels in Portuguese was made possible through a generous 3-year grant from the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) in Lisbon. The absence of Lusophone African literature from mainstream African literary studies (mostly in English and French) has been noted by contemporary scholars. These new works of post-colonial fiction and verse listed below are held by few academic libraries and reflect the UC Berkeley Library’s longstanding commitment to collect and make accessible underrepresented voices from across the world in more than 400 distinct languages. Please enjoy this curated list by book dealer Susanne Bach Books which provides a snapshot of the rich literary output from Lusophone Africa over the past three years:

100 poemas para Neto / Poetas da União dos Escritores Angolanos. Luanda, Angola: EAL – Edições de Angola, 2022.

A greve das palavras: contos juvenis / Celso Celestino Cossa. Cidade da Beira, Moçambique : Editorial Fundza, 2024.

A intimidade das sementes: narrativas / Amílcar Armando Raja. Maputo, Moçambique: Gala-Gala Edições, 2024.

A queda do Macombe Chipapata: tramas e revoltas /  Celestino Joanguete. Maputo, Moçambique: Ethale Publishing, 2024.

Almas em tácitas / Lino Mukurruza. Maputo, Moçambique: Alcance Editores, 2023.

Amei para me amar / Nyeleti. Inhambene do Céu, Moçambique: Massinhane Edições, 2024.

Amores da província: 3 novelas / Benjamim Pedro João. Maputo, Moçambique: Edições Tarymba, 2022.

Amores e outras cores / Armindo António. Maputo, Moçambique: Catalogus, 2024.

Antologia mulheres e seus destinos / vol. IV :coord., org. Lena Marçal. Cidade da Praia, Cabo Verde :[s.n.], 2024.

As coisas do morto / Francisco Guita Jr. Maputo, Moçambique: Gala-Gala Edições, 2024.

As peripécias de Caia: I volume da trilogia / Benjamim Pedro João. Maputo, Mozambique: Edições Tarymba, 2024.

Até depois da solidão: o diário de Ricardo / Nunes Cristovão; Osvaldo dos Anjos (Exilado). Maputo, Moçambique: Ntxuva Editora, 2023.

Boleia à chave da felicidade / Roberto Savanguanni. Cidade da Beira, Moçambique:Editorial Fundza, 2023.

Canção de setembro para Zamuzaria Maria / Rafael da Câmara. Maputo, Moçambique:Gala-Gala edições, 2023.

Criação do fogo / Álvaro Fausto Taruma.Maputo, Moçambique: Alcance Editores, 2024.

De neve e de bruma = Di nevi i di serason / José Luiz Tavares; ilustrações de Yuran Henrique.Kabuverdi: Gongon Cartoneira, 2022.

Dedicatória: as minhas experiências mais gratificantes e as que não me orgulho / Abilito O Negro. Chimoio, Moçambique: Sguerra DEsign, 2022.

Deixa-me escrever-te / Timóteo Papel. Cidade da Beira, Moçambique: Fundza, 2023.

Delírios matinais / Emerson D’ Oliveira.Maputo, Moçambique: Edição de autor, 2022.

Dias rasgados ao meio / Jorge de Oliveira. Maputo, Moçambique: Alcance Editores, 2023.

Dicionário de pequenas solidões /  Ronaldo Cagiano. Maputo, Moçambique: Catalogus, 2024.

Escritores emergentes de Moçambique (antologia) / Benjamim Pedro João. Maputo, Moçambique: Edições Tarymba, 2022.

Estórias trazidas pela ventania / Adelino Albano Luís. Cidade da Beira, Moçambique: Editorial Fundza, 2023.

Eterno cacimbo / Mavu Keyambata. Luanda: Palavra e arte, 2023.

Eu te amo, tu és linda!  Josina Costa Viegas. Maputo, Moçambique: Alcance Editores; Clube de Leitura de Qualimane, 2024.

Filosofar dos Corpos / Atanásio Mutoropa. Beira: Fundza, 2024.

Fui para dentro de mim e não voltei / Mauro da Silva. 2ª ed. Inhambene-Céu, Moçambique: Massinhane Edições, 2024.

Geba: onde o Tâmega desaguou no Índico / Miguel César. Maputo, Moçambique: Fundação Fernando Leite Couto, 2022.

Ginástica nictofóbica da terra / Wilton dos Zicas. Maputo, Moçambique: Alcance Editores, 2023.

Há exorcismos em Njofane / Vitorino Ubisse Oliveira. Inhambane, Mozambique: Massinhane, 2023.

Incêndios à margem do sono / Óscar Fanheiro. Maputo, Moçambique: Fundação Fernando Couto, 2023.

Kwashala blues / Jessemusse Cacinda. Maputo, Moçambique: Ethale, 2023.

Lesões da memória / Ernesto Maluleque Júnior. Maputo, Moçambique: Ethale Publishing, 2024.

Makhalelo: cocktail de crónicas / Adriano Félix. Maputo, Moçambique: Editorial Fundza, 2022.

Mandume: o rei de Oukwanyama / Cigano Satyohamba. Luanda, Angola: Edição do autor, 2021.

Masika: o intuitivo / A’mosi Just A Label. Luanda, Angola: Konono Soul Books, 2023.

Masingita ou a subtileza do incesto / Juvenal Bucuane. Cidade da Beira, Moçambique: Editorial Fundza, 2022.

Memória subterrânea / Mudungazi. Maputo: Editora Kulera, 2024.

Meninas do crepúsculo Leste / Cecília António Moreira. Luanda, Angola: Editora Acácias,2024.

Mulher e marido / Manuel Rui. Luanda, Angola: Mayamba Editora, 2024.

Mutiladas / Eduardo Quive. Maputo, Mozambique: Editora Catalogus, 2024.

Nas areias do tempo / Luís Cezerilo. Maputo, Moçambique: Editora Lithangu, 2024.

Navegar. Amor. Café. /Ruben Morgado. Maputo, Moçambique: Catalogus, 2024.

Névoa na sala/ Mélio Tinga. Maputo, Moçambique: Catalogus Editora, 2024.

Novas vozes, novas estórias / Abrahama Zacarias Noé. Maputo, Moçambique: Catalogus, 2024.

Nunca me abandones / Alcides Simões. Praia, Cabo Verde: Livraria Pedro Cardoso, 2023.

O amor de uma prostituta / Flora Salvador. Luanda, Angola: É Sobre Nós Editora, 2023.

O Amor que há em ti / Larsan Mendes Beira: Editorial Fundza. 2022.

O amor, o gato preto e outras insónias / José Pedro Pinto Lobo. Maputo, Moçambique: Alcance Editores, 2024.

O descalço dos murmúrios / Gibson João. Maputo, Moçambique: Fundação Fernando Leite Couto, 2023.

O endereço para dentro do segredo / Baptista Américo. Cidade da Beira, Moçambique: Editorial Fundza, 2024.

O galo cantou na baía… :(e outros contos cabo-verdeanos) / Manuel Lopes. Praia, Cabo Verde: Instituto da Biblioteca Nacional de Cabo Verde, 2023.

O Inventário da Memória: Ensaios/ José dos Remédios (org). Beira, Moçambique: Fundza, 2024.

O lado sujo da metáfora / Jeconias Mocumbe. Maputo, Moçambique: GalaGala Edições, 2024.

O louco que habita em nós: perversão por detrás da aparência / Catarino Luamba. Luanda: Kilunji, 2024.

O manual das mãos / Eduardo White. Maputo, Moçambique: Alcance, 2022.

O retrato dos demónios / Naji Sacaúnha.Inhambene-Céu, Moçambique: Massinhane Edições, 2024.

Observador de sonhos / Bruno Morgado. Maputo, Moçambique: Catalogus, 2024.

Orera: um conto de amor e honestidade / Hélder Tsemba. Cidade da Beira, Moçambique: Editora Fundza, 2023.

Os bichos têm dono: estórias verídicas / Almiro Lobo. Maputo, Moçambique: Alcance Editores, 2024.

Os funerais de Manguituka, o terrível bandido e outros mambos / Albino Carlos.Luanda, Angola: Editora Acácias, 2023.

Os heróis que não sabiam voar /Honório Quimbuari. Luanda, Angola: Imprensa Nacional, 2023.

Os lobos não podem esperar / Natacha Magalhães. Praia, Cabo Verde: Pedro Cardoso Livraria,2022.

Os pores-do-sol / Lahissane. Maputo, Moçambique: Ethale Publishing, 2022.

Os últimos animais / Whaskety Fernando. idade da Beira, Moçambique: Editora Fundza, 2023.

Pedaços da eternidade / Piedade Manuel. Benguela, Angola: Editora Shalom, 2024.

Peneiras de poalha / Humberto Santos. Cidade da Praia, Cabo Verde: Livraria Pedro Cardoso, 2023.

Pétalas negras: ou a sombra do inanimado / Belmiro Mouzinho. Cidade da Beira, Moçambique: Fundza, 2022.

Pita kufa: o leito da morte / Carlos Paradona Rufino Roque. Maputo, Moçambique: Alcance Editores, 2024.

Poemas de infância e o reencontro com o passado – presente / Joaquim Nhampoca.Maputo, Moçambique: Edição de Autor, 2022.

Poemas do breve / Lex Mucache. Beira; Fundza, 2024.

Quando os mochos piam: contos / Geremias Mendoso. Maputo, Moçambique: Fundação Fernando Leite Couto, 2022.

Quarentena /Jorge Ferrão.  Maputo, Moçambique: Alcance editores, 2024.

Raízes e gritos / Lorna Zita. Maputo, Moçambique: Editora Kulera,2023.

Saudades do ventre da minha mãe / Márcio Batalha. Luanda, Angola: Editora Acácias, 2022.

Siavuma 100 anos / org. Ricardo Santos. Maputo: Alcance editores, 2024.

Singularidades IV: estudos africanos / Lourenço Rosário. Maputo, Moçambique: Alcance Editores, 2024.

Sonata de uma nação vagabunda / Mudungazi.Maputo, Moçambique: Editora Kulera, 2024.

Sopro / Nelson Lineu. Maputo, Moçambique: TPC Editora, 2023.

Tanto amor / Kaya M. Maputo, Moçambique: Editora Kulera, 2023.

Te amo mecanicamente / Marco Lole de Andrade. Songo, Moçambique: Soletra Editora, 2022.

Uma onça na cidade / Deusa D’África. Maputo, Moçambique: Alcance editores, 2024.

Verdades dos mitos / Hélder Muteia. Maputo, Moçambique: Alcance Editores, 2023.

Yolela / Zaki Wamai. Luanda, Angola: É Sobre Nós Editora, 2024.

Zero sobre zero: o espião que veio de Kigali / Aurélio Furdela. Maputo, Moçambique: Alcance Editores, 2024.

Zeus, quando é cão / Francisco Muianga. Beira, Moçambique. Editorial Fundza 2022.

flowerVisit the Iberian Studies library research guide for more books about Luso-African Literature and Criticism.

In Memoriam: John le Carré is dead but George Smiley OBE lives on!

Posted on by Liladhar

In post-colonial India of the 1970s, Mumbai, in overcrowded and antiquated local trains each day thousands of middle-class commuters, dabbawalas, women, and schoolchildren traveled to their disparate destinations. Some played cards, others prayed to their God/ Goddesses or even to Jesus and Allah, while kids like me looked at the torn and reposted posters of Bollywood movies like Deewar, Sholay, Muqqadar ka Sikandar, through which, my imagination was captivated by the images of unshaven and angry young man-Amitabh Bachchan and dreamy-eyed Rekha. In the background, there were Bollywood tunes.

I had no idea that the United States and the Soviet Union were engaged in a “competition for  global dominance.” One day, I was looking at an aunty who looked like an angry goddess Kali, but she was engrossed in reading a novel called Tinker Tailor…and something about the Soldier Spy… It was an imposing book in its size- a sort of cliff note type of Mahabharata… I had no idea what it was about. She looked at me and told me that it was a Mahabharata of the West. LOL! Then came my sojourn in the Soviet Union where the Cold War transformed into a reality of Soviet bomb shelter drills, Russian kindness, and other less relevant matters like long lines for sugar and toilet paper.

Today, as I woke up in a rain-soaked California, like a Rip Van Winkle to the news of the passing of the British creator of that novel, John le Carré, whose books have been part of UC Berkeley Library’s popular fiction holdings since the 1970s. In today’s Byzantine American politics, I find my solace in his imaginary creation.

The author of “West’s Mahabharata” is dead, but he lives on in our memories of the Cold War!

You’re Invited to the Summer Edition of the OHC Book Club

Posted on by Shanna Farrell

Oral History, Literature, and the June OHC Book Club Selection

Daisey Jones & the Six

When the shelter-in-place order was issued in mid-March by California Governor Gavin Newsom, many thoughts ran through my head. One of the milder ones — the kind that comes from the part of me that tries to find a silver lining in bad situations — was that I might have more time to read. I’ve always been an avid reader, mostly of fiction and narrative non-fiction, and often find myself counting down the hours until I can return to my book.

But in those early days of the global COVID-19 pandemic, I couldn’t concentrate on many things other than the news. My working hours bled into my free time as I tried my best to knock projects off my to-do list and remain productive as the world crumbled around us. 

And then one day I found myself staring at my bookshelf, the myriad of colorful spines calling to me. A soft pink cover caught my eye. I pulled Severance, a post-apocalyptic book by Ling Ma, off the shelf and cracked it open. The novel follows Candace Chen as a flu pandemic hits modern-day New York City. As a native New Yorker, It hit close to home, and was strangely cathartic. (It didn’t hurt that the book is beautifully written and Ma’s prose was absorbing.) It allowed me to escape in a way that was right for the limits of my focus at the time. 

Next I read Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel, another post-apocalyptic novel about a global flu pandemic. This one split the timeline between when the pandemic hit Toronto, Canada, and twenty years in the future. In it, the author uses oral history as a device to connect the timelines. Every time I encounter the term “oral history” in literature – be it fiction or non-fiction – my heart quickens, never knowing if it’s being misused. 

As I read the fictional oral history interview transcript interspersed throughout the second half of Station Eleven, I was delighted, and deeply impressed, that Mandel seemed to understand that oral history is a type of long-form, recorded interview. This deepened my appreciation for both the writer and the book, discovering that there are people out there who don’t blur the lines between a clearly-defined methodology (about which I’ve mused on this very blog), taking the time to do their due diligence before employing a term they’ve heard about in passing. 

Ever since I read World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie Apocalypse by Max Brooks, I’ve loved when authors use fictional oral history interviews to tell a story. I find the interviewer and narrator exchange, the chorus of voices, and the details from the past an engaging way to draw the reader in. Many times, I feel like I’m in the room with them.

 My colleague, Amanda Tewes agrees. “I like that the familiarity of oral history draws me into a story (almost as if it was real) and allows the author to toy with memory in a way that is difficult when juggling many characters,” she says. 

This brings us to our next OHC Oral History Book Club selection, picked by Tewes, which embraces the trend of oral history as a literary device in fiction. We’ll be reading Daisy Jones & the Six, by Taylor Jenkins Reid, which the New York Times calls “a gripping novel about the whirlwind rise of an iconic 1970s rock group and their beautiful lead singer, revealing the mystery behind their infamous breakup.” 

The story unfolds through a series of fictional oral histories. The format is the kind we often find on the pages of Entertainment Weekly or Vanity Fair, inspired by the hallmark oral history book Edie about Edie Sedgewick. The book is a best-seller, a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick, and is the basis for a new mini-series from Witherspoon’s production company. 

We’re inviting you to join us for the June installment of our book club. On June 15, we’ll be holding a virtual meeting. We’ll be discussing the book, the use of oral history in literature and pop culture, and more.

RSVP to [email protected] if you’d like to join us for our book club via Zoom on Monday, June 15 at 11am PST/2pm EST.

Until then, happy reading and stay safe!

New Year’s Resolution?: Read More Books

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Resolve to Read More in 2018

Happy New Year! With a new year comes the inescapable (and usually unfulfillable) list of New Year’s resolutions. At a loss for realistic ideas? Join us in our resolution to read more — including and especially for leisure. If you’ve resolved to spend some more time hitting the books (for pleasure), check out our recommendations for a great start to your reading year:

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