Olive Emilie Albertina SchrinerWole Soyinka: Nigria.

O Leo e a

Joia; A Quality of Violence; The Swamp Dwellers; A Dance in

the Forests; Kongi's Harvest; The Road; The Man Died; Jero's
Metamorphosis; Death And The King's Horsemen; King Baabu.

Nadine Gordimer: frica do Sul. A Arma da Casa; The Lying

Days; A World of Strangers; Occasion for Loving; A Guest of
Honour; The Conservationist; Julys People; The Pickup; Face to
Face; A Soldiers Embrace; Loot: And Other Stories.

4- Terra
Sonmbula de
(Moambique)

Mia

Autor: COUTO, MIA

Idioma: PORTUGUS
Editora: COMPANHIA DAS LETRAS
Assunto: Literatura Internacional Romances
Edio: 1
Ano: 2007

Couto

SINOPSE
Um nibus incendiado em uma estrada poeirenta serve de abrigo ao velho
Tuahir e ao menino Muidinga, em fuga da guerra civil devastadora que grassa
por toda parte em Moambique. Depois de dez anos de guerra anticolonial
(1965- 1975), o pas do sudeste africano viu-se s voltas com um longo e
sangrento conflito interno que se estendeu de 1976 a 1992. O veculo est
cheio de corpos carbonizados. Mas h tambm um outro corpo beira da
estrada, junto a uma mala que abriga os cadernos de Kindzu, o longo dirio do
morto em questo. A partir da, duas histrias so narradas paralelamente a
viagem de Tuahir e Muidinga e, em flashback, o percurso de Kindzu em busca
dos naparamas, guerreiros tradicionais, abenoados pelos feiticeiros, que so,
aos olhos do garoto, a nica esperana contra os senhores da guerra.

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A History of South African Literature, timeline 1824-2005

Timelines

A History of South African Literature, timeline 1824-2005

1824
The Glasgow Missionary Society founded the school of Lovedale at Alice in the Tyume valley in
1824.
1877
The first biography ever written about a black South African was published. It was written by John
A. Chalmers on Rev Tiyo Soga.
1880
With the colonisation of South Africa came the emergence of 'The colonial adventure' writer.
These colonial writers were unsettled and intrigued by what they perceived to be exotic elements
of indigenous cultures. One such writer was Rider Haggard, who wrote many mythical and
adventure stories, beginning in the early 1880s. His most famous book is King Solomon's
Mines (1886), a bestseller in its day (and filmed several times up to the 1980s). Like subsequent
novels such as Allan Quartermainand She (both 1887), its central character is the hunter Allan
Quartermain, Haggard's ideal of the colonial gentleman. The point of view is that of the heroic
Englishman, and indigenous peoples are portrayed either as dangerous savages or given the role
of the faithful servant, (Quartermain's Zulu retainer eventually gives his life for his master).
1883
Olive Schreiner's novel, The Story of an African Farm (1883) was published. It is generally
considered to be the founding text of South African literature. The novel draws on the postromantic sensibility of Wuthering Heights, and depicts rural South African life with authenticity and
brio. It has been criticised for its silence with regard to the black African presence in South Africa,
but it is still a key text in the formation of a truly South African voice.
1884
The first Black-owned and Black-run journal, Tengo Jabavu's Imvo Zabantsundu, was founded.
1889

Douglas Blackburn's Prinsloo of Prinsloosdorp was published. He was a maverick British

journalist who came to South Africa when the Transvaal was still a Boer republic, and stayed
during the Anglo Boer War and beyond. In several newspapers, he denounced British colonial
attitudes as well as satirising Boer corruption. He wrote two novels set in this world, Prinsloo of
Prinsloosdorp was one of these two.
1897
Schreiner's Trooper Peter Halkett of Mashonaland was published, it included a critique of Cecil
John Rhodes's brutal form of colonialism.
1903
Douglas Blackburn's A Burgher Quixote (1903) was published it was his 2nd novel satirising
boere corruption.
1908
Douglas Blackburn's novel Leaven is published. It is a moving denunciation of "blackbirding" and
other iniquitous labour practices, and is one of the first South African novels to portray what life
was really like for peasants forced into urban labour.
1911
Olive Schreiner's the polemical Women and Labour (1911) was published.
1912
Union in 1910 persuaded many educated Blacks to unite into a single organization in 1912 (the
African National Congress) and most writers for the first half of the century, at least, adhered to its
ideals.
1915
Douglas Blackburn's Love Muti (1915) attacks British colonial attitudes. Blackburn is not read
much today, but his work is an important contribution to a developing South African literature and style. Herman Charles Bosman, for one, seems to have learned from Blackburn's ironic
humour.
1920
The first novel by a black South African was Mhudi (completed in 1920 but only published in
1930), by Solomon (Sol) Thekiso Plaatje. This epic story follows the trajectory of the Tswana
people during and after their military encounter with the Zulus under Shaka, the Zulu conqueror of
the 19th century, and encompasses their earliest encounters with the white people moving into
the interior.
1924
Sarah Gertrude Millin, who became the most dominant literary figure between the two world wars,
published a book titled God's Stepchildren. Her views on the "tragedy" of racial miscegenation
were put forward in this publication. Seen in terms of racial hierarchies, with whites at the top and
blacks at the bottom, Millin's views represented those held widely at the time.
1925
Thomas Mofolo's Chaka reinvents the legendary Zulu king (commonly referred to as Shaka). The
novel was published in 1925 and the first English translation came out in 1930.

1926
Just as Olive Schreiner had drawn fire from the colonial elite for her liberal views, so did William
Plomer, decades later, shock colonial society with his novel Turbott Wolfe (1926), written when he
was only 19 years old. It tackled the highly sensitive issue of inter-racial love, though it is hardly a
roistering sexual chronicle. It was, however, an indictment of white South African attitudes at the
time, and a mere suggestion that there might be some human sympathy, let alone sexual
attraction, between a white person and a black person, horrified many. There is also open
discussion of the political and racial situation in South Africa. Along with his contemporaries and
sometime collaborators Laurens van der Post and Roy Campbell, Plomer left South Africa soon
after the publication of his novel.
1928
R R R Dhlomo published a short novel, An African Tragedy.
1930
Black writers started to develop a western-style of drama in the 1930s, most notably with the
plays of Herbert Dhlomo. However, most black literary activity still centred at newspapers, such
as Bantu World.
R R R Dhlomo's Plaatje's Mhudi was finally published.
1932
Bantu World, a black literary newspaper, was founded.
1940
The 1940s saw the beginnings of a flowering of literature by black South Africans, as a generation
of mission-educated Africans came of age.
1941
HIE Dhlomo published a compilation of his works, which preached a "return to the source" - the
wisdom of finding traditional ways of dealing with modern problems. His publication included
several plays and the long poem The Valley of a Thousand Hills (1941).
1946
Peter Abrahams, an important voice who began writing in the 1940s, was of mixed-race descent.
His early novel, Mine Boy (1946), was published in the same year in which a large miners' strike
was violently suppressed by Smuts' government. Mine Boy depicts life in black areas of the time,
and dramatises the problems of rural people in a depressed urban environment - a theme that
was referred to as the "Jim comes to Jo'burg" phenomenon in South African literature. E'skia
Mphahlele's short story Man Must Live was published. Taken as a whole, Mphahlele's oeuvre
represents one of the most important views of the life experience and developing views of a
politically aware South African; this is the work of a black man taking the urban scenario as his
subject matter and moving beyond the sometimes contradictory messages of the missioneducated generation.
1947
Another South African writer who emerged in the 1940s, Herman Charles Bosman, has become
one of the country's best-loved authors, particularly for his short stories set in the Groot Marico
farming district. Bosman's first collection of stories, Mafeking Road, was published.

1948
Cry, The Beloved Country (1948) is possibly the most famous novel to have come out of South
Africa. When it was first published, it was an international bestseller, launching its author, Alan
Paton, to worldwide fame. The novel put South Africa on the map of international politics by
making visible to Western audiences the effects of racial prejudice and the oppression of black
people. Peter Abrahams: The Path of Thunder (1948), which deals with interracial love.
1949
One of HC Bosman's best works, Cold Stone Jug (1949), is a semi-fictionalised account of his
time in jail, was published.
1950
The 1950s was the decade in which the African National Congress and its alliance partners
launched the massive Defiance Campaign, a huge peaceful affront on white supremacy. It was
the decade in which the Freedom Charter, the central document of the anti-racist movement, was
written on the basis of contributions from all over the country. And it was the decade in which the
apartheid state responded with massive treason trials for those who defied it. The 1950s also saw
a new generation of black writers talking about the conditions of their lives in their own voices voices with a distinctive stamp and style. The popular Drum magazine in the 1950s was their
forum, and encouraged their emergence. It depicted a vibrant urban black culture for the first time
- a world of jazz, shebeens (illegal drinking dens), and flamboyant gangsters (tsotsis). At the
same time as the Drum generation was creating the first urban black voice, one of South Africa's
most important white writers was beginning her long, distinguished career. Nadine Gordimer
published her first short stories in the early 1950s; in 1991 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for
Literature. Between those two dates, her many novels and short stories articulated key issues for
white South Africans sympathetic to the plight of disenfranchised blacks, as well as providing for
the outside world a devastating picture of what it was like to live under apartheid.
1953
Peter Abrahams: Return to Goli (1953), was published.
1954
Peter Abrahams published his autobiography, Tell Freedom (1954).
1956
Publication of the art magazine Africa South and the literary magazine the Purple Renoster.
1958
Nadine Gordimer's second novel, A World of Strangers (1958) was published.
1959
E'skia Mphahlele's autobiographical Down Second Avenue (1959) is a landmark in the
development of South African fiction. Set in a village and a township near Pretoria, the text
records the resilience of various female characters in Mphahlele's life, who defy poverty and
urban squalor to bring him up.
1960
In the early 1960s, the State of Emergency used by the apartheid state to crack down on
dissidents, the banning of political organisations such as the African National Congress and the

Pan African Congress, and the jailing of leaders such as Nelson Mandela, sent many black
writers into exile. Among them was Alex la Guma, a Marxist and ANC leader who saw the
purpose of his work as the exposure of the dreadful conditions of South Africa's oppressed. At the
same time, in the 1960s, new talent was emerging in the Afrikaans literary scene; writers Jan
Rabie, Etienne Leroux, Breyten Breytenbach and Andre Brink. Publishing first in Afrikaans, these
writers were increasingly politicised by the situation in South Africa and their contrasting
experiences overseas. During this period, Bessie Head emerged as a leading South African
female writer, with the role of women as her central concern. Of mixed blood, and with a traumatic
family history, Head left South Africa to avoid its racial policies. She settled in Botswana. Another
writer to make his name in the 1960s was Wilbur Smith, South Africa's most popular literary
export. The 1960s also saw the emergence of a new generation of white South African poets,
among them Douglas Livingstone, Sidney Clouts, Ruth Miller, Lionel Abrahams and Stephen
Gray.
Breytenbach, who began as one of the most linguistically radical new poets in Afrikaans, left
South Africa in 1960, where he became a vocal critic of the apartheid state.
The New English language literary magazine Contrast was launched.
During this year there was debate and division amongst the magazine kol /spot white afrikaaner
writers on how to deal with the crisis facing their community in the wake of the events after
Sharpeville. See Andre Brink's article. Pg27.
Ronald Segal, editor of the magazine Africa Sout,h goes into exile. The magazine is eventually
published from London.
1962
Alex la Guma: A Walk in the Night (1962) was published. E'skia Mphahlele's: A critique The
African Image was published. Albert Luthuli's Let My People Go was published. This book carried
on the autobiographical tradition now evident in black writing.
1963
Jack

Cope,

editor

of Contrast,

is

one

of

102

people

listed

as

communist.

The first issue of the magazine Classic, edited by Nat Nasaka, was published.
Passing of the 1963 publication and entertainment act.
Formation of group and magazine Sestiger.
1964
Wilbur Smith: Where the Lion Feeds (1964) was published.
1965
Writers Nat Nakasa and Lewis Nkosi were awarded Niemann Fellowership to study abroad. They
were refused passports and were forced to leave South Africa on an exit permit. As a result they
lost their South African citizenship.
14th July. Nat Nakasa dies in exile after a fall from the seventh floor of a building in New York.

19th July. Poet, Ingrid Jonker, commits suicide by drowning in Cape Town.
Publication of New Coin, a poetry magazine.
1966
Nadine Gordimer's The Late Bourgeois World was published. Wilbur Smith's The Sound of
Thunder (1966) was published. Prime minister Vorster's government list the names of 46 South
Africans in exile. The ban meant that all the people on the list, many of whom were leading
writers, could not have their work published, distributed or quoted inside the country.
1967
Alex la Guma's Threefold Cord was published. E'skia Mphahlele's Short story In Corner B was
published. Earnest Cole, who was in exile, publishes his book House of Bondage, the book was
banned in the country.
1968
Bessie Head's When Rain Clouds Gather was published. Publication of Ingrid Jonker's Selected
Poems by Jack Cope and William Plumer.
1969
Arrest of writer Wally Serote and photographer Peter Magubane, together with Winnie Mandela
and others. They were kept in solitary for long periods of time and were later charged for
'furthering the aims of a banned organisation', these charges were eventually acquitted June.
1970
In the 1970s, South Africa experienced a literary revival of black voices that had been silenced by
repression. The 1970s are widely regarded as a defining period for the development of political
consciousness among black South Africans, with the rise of the Black Consciousness (BC)
movement, of which Bantu Steve Biko was a leading figure, and the youth revolt of 1976.
Literature became a vehicle to promote the political ideals of anti-apartheid popular movements,
through poems, plays and such journals as Black Review, in which Steve Biko played a
prominent part. Many of these productions were designed to mobilise audiences against state
policies, and the genres of drama and poetry were utilised for their immediacy of impact. The
most notable writers from this period are Mongane (Wally) Serote, Sipho Sepamla, Oswald
Joseph Mbuyiseni Mtshali, Christopher van Wyk, Mafika Gwala and Don Mattera. Their poems
were often performed at political rallies. Also in the 1970's Breyten Breytenbach returned to South
Africa and was arrested and jailed for the work he was doing for the liberation movement. From
this experience came his prison memoir, True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist (1996).
1971
E'skia Mphahlele's novel The Wanderers was published. Bessie Head's Maru was published.
Oswald Joseph Mbuyiseni Mtshali's Volume of poems The Sound of a Cowhide Drum, was
published. Publication of the magazine Izwi.
1972
Alex la Guma's novel, In the Fog of the Season's End (1972), possibly his best, was published. It
shows the developing consciousness of a man dedicated to the underground struggle for
freedom. As a "listed person", little of La Guma's work was available in South Africa until 1990,

when the liberation movements were unbanned. Mongane (Wally) Serote's volume of
poems, Yakhal'inkomo (1972), was published.
SPROCAS Publishes the book of poems Cry Rage by James Matthews and Gladys Thomas it
was banned.
1973
Andre Brink's novel Looking on Darkness was banned. Bessie Head: A Question of Power was
published. Modikwe Dikobe, The Marabi Dance was published in 1973, a superbly authentic
recreation of the Johannesburg of the 1930s.
1974
Nadine Gordimer: The Conservationist, which pits Afrikaner land hunger against the indigenous
population in an often phantasmagoric narrative, was published. Mongane (Wally) Serote: volume
of poems Tsetlo.
1976
Breyten Breytenbach : A Season in Paradise was published Conference on black writing :
problems

and

prospects

of

traditions

17-19-

April

organised

by New

Classic and Sketch magazine.

1977
Bessie Head's, The Collector of Treasures, was published. It is her most autobiographical work,
dealing with the traumas of her own illegitimate mixed-race birth, her mother's suicide and her
own nervous breakdown. Stephen Gray: semi-autobiographical novel, The Celibacy of Felix
Greenspan (1977), was published. Oswald Joseph Mbuyiseni Mtshali: Poems: The Soweto I
Love (1977), was published.
1978
Mongane (Wally) Serote: volume of poems Behold Mama, Flowers was published.
1979
Nadine Gordimer: Burger's Daughter (1979 ) was published.
1980
Increasing internal and external pressure on the apartheid state led, in the 1980s, to its most
repressive measures yet. While sanctions were imposed from outside, a mass democratic
movement, based on the ideals of the Freedom Charter, arose within the country. The state
responded with successive states of emergency that brought white troops to the townships; a
state

of

civil

war

existed

in

all

but

name.

With these political happenings came the driving need for politicised work, as it had been in the
1970s. Poets such as the orator Mzwakhe Mbuli reached vast audiences, while novelists such as
Menan du Plessis and Mandla Langa engaged with the business of resistance to apartheid. Yet,
at the same time, some writers felt the need for a move away from rhetoric toward the depiction
of ordinary life. JM Coetzee, began publishing in the 1970s, but achieved prominence in these
"emergency years" of the 1980's. Lesego Rampolokeng came to prominence in the 1980s,
through the Congress of South African Writers. He used a vibrant mix of rap-styled poetry and
township idiom, and displayed no loyalty to any figures of authority. His poems are published

in Horns for Hondo (1991) and End Beginnings (1993). A powerful live performer of his work, he
has collaborated with musicians as well.
Miriam Tlali's Amandla (1980) was published.
Coetzee's novel Waiting for the Barbarians (1980) was published. It tackles issues relevant to
South Africa by telling the story of an official at the outpost of an unidentified empire, one under
stress from a barbarian threat that may or may not be imagined.
Disbandment of PEN and the formation of Black only African Writers Association.
1981
Nadine Gordimer's July's People was published. It is perhaps Gordimer's most powerful novel, it
projects into the future the final collapse of white supremacy and what that might mean for white
and black people on an intimate level. Serote (who became an ANC leader) is also the author of
the novel published in this year, To Every Birth Its Blood. An account of political activity in the
1970s.
1982
Andre Brink's immensely powerful novel A Dry White Season was published, it focused on the
death in detention of a black activist, and caused great irritation to the apartheid state, and at the
same time educated many white South Africans. It was also banned, then unbanned. Mbulelo
Mzamane's The Children of Soweto was published.
1983
Njabulo Ndebele's Fools and Other Stories was published. JM Coetzee's Life and Times of
Michael K (1983), won the Booker Prize in Britain. Jeremy Cronin's, book of poetry Inside, was
published by Raven Press.
1986
Black Mamba Rising poems by Alfred Qabula was published by Cosatu worker resistance and
Cultural publications.
1987
Don Mattera wrote an account of life in Sophiatown, and its destruction, in Memory is the
Weapon.
1988
Breyten Breytenbach's prison poetry was published in English in Judas Eye.
1990
JM Coetzee: Age of Iron (1990), which takes the perspective of a white academic who is dying
even as the townships explode with violence.
Ivan Vladislavic's collections of stories, Missing Persons (1990)
Apartheid came to an end, but its effects lingered on, and as writers such as Coetzee had
demonstrated, the issues of power that haunted the apartheid era were still in many ways with
South Africans. Certainly, while there was no sudden post-apartheid renaissance, there were
many important writers who dealt with and who are dealing with South Africa in the 1990s, and

processing its past, which is still in many ways with us today. Among them, one of the most
acclaimed is Zakes Mda, who worked for many years as a playwright and poet before publishing
his first novels in 1995. He started with a bang - with two novels, She Plays with the
Darknessand Ways of Dying. The latter, the story of a professional mourner, won the M-Net Book
Prize.
Ivan Vladislavic is another author who pushed into the post-apartheid future, with distinctly postmodern works that play with the conventions of fiction as much as they speak about
contemporary realties in South Africa today.
1991
The Nobel Prize for literature was won by Nadine Gordimer. Andre Brink's An Act of Terror (1991),
dealing with an Afrikaner dissident turned "terrorist", was published.
1993
Breyten Breytenbach's Return to Paradise was published. Andre Brink's On the Contrary (1993),
a playful reworking of South Africa's colonial history, was published. Ivan Vladislavic's novel The
Folly was published.
1994
Mongane (Wally) Serote's volume of poems Come and Hope with Me, was published. It won the
Noma Award for Publishing in Africa.
1996
Breyten Breytenbach's essays were published in The Memory of Birds in Times of Revolution.
1997
Mark Behr, one of the most compelling and controversial additions to South African literature,
published his first novel, The Smell of Apples, it was first published in Afrikaans. It tells of white
South Africans who were brainwashed by the apartheid system, and went on to win several
prizes. Soon after that, Behr admitted that he had been a spy for the apartheid police while a
student activist; a graphic illustration, if one were needed, of the divided loyalties felt by many
whites in that period.
1999
Mongane (Wally) Serote's novel Gods of our Time (1999) was published, it reconstructs civil and
military campaigns which led to the demise of apartheid. JM Coetzee's, Disgrace (1999), won him
a second Booker Prize and caused huge debate in South Africa over its depiction of a post
apartheid reality in which the wounds of the past have not been healed - and new ones are being
inflicted. JM Coetzee's The Lives of Animals, edited and introduced by Amy Gutmann (1999); was
published.
2000
Ivan Vladislavic's collections of stories, Propaganda by Monuments (2000), was published. K
Sello Duiker, a young novelist, made a plash in South Africa, with two novels, Thirteen
Cents (2000) and The Quiet Violence of Dreams (2001), coming out in quick succession. Both
have won him awards and critical acclaim. Set in the urban landscape of Cape Town, the two
novels see the world through the eyes of the underdog, a street kid in the first and an ostracised

gay student in the second. Behr's second novel, Embrace (2000) was published. Kgafela wa
Magogodi is a poet who probes issues such as Aids in his collection Thy Condom Come (2000).
2001
JM Coetzee: The Humanities in Africa - Die Geisteswissenschaften in Afrika (2001) and Stranger
Shores: Essays, 1986 to 1999 (2001), were published. Zakes Mda's The Heart of Redness, won
the Commonwealth Prize Ivan Vladislavic's novel The Restless Supermarketwas published. Zoe
Wicomb's, David's Stor, was published ( winner of the M-Net Book Prize). It interrogates the past
and present of an anti-apartheid activist, as does Achmat Dangor's Bitter Fruit, also published in
2001. Phaswane Mpe's Welcome to Our Hillbrow (2001) was published. It is a critically acclaimed
view of the physical and moral decay in both the rural areas of Tiragalong and the urban ghetto of
Hillbrow.
2002
Stephen Gray's semi-autobiographical novel, The White Life of Felix Greenspan (2002), was
published.
JM Coetzee's Youth (2002) was published.
2003
Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
2005
JM Coetzee's Slow Man (2005) was published.
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A frica muda as pessoas Emociona, contesta, confunde,

deslumbra Crys Rangel
Literatura algo que se avalia muito subjetivamente. Contudo, listamos aqui 7
livros de autores africanos que, em nossa opinio, merecem o carinho da sua
leitura.
Os livros mencionados so sugestes e no se enquadram necessariamente
como os mais consagrados de cada autor.
Voc tem mais alguma dica de autor africano que queira compartilhar com
todos? Registre nos comentrios e enriquea o nosso trabalho!

1. Americanah de
(Nigria)

Chimamanda

Adichie

Autor: ADICHIE, CHIMAMANDA NGOZI

Tradutor: ROMEU, JULIA
Idioma: PORTUGUS
Editora: COMPANHIA DAS LETRAS
Assunto: Romances
Edio: 1
Ano de Edio: 2014
Ano: 2014

SINOPSE
Lagos, anos 1990. Enquanto Ifemelu e Obinze vivem o idlio do primeiro amor,
a Nigria enfrenta tempos sombrios sob um governo militar. Em busca de
alternativas s universidades nacionais, paralisadas por sucessivas greves, a
jovem Ifemelu muda-se para os Estados Unidos. Ao mesmo tempo que se

destaca no meio acadmico, ela se depara pela primeira vez com a questo
racial e com as agruras da vida de imigrante, mulher e negra. Quinze anos mais
tarde, Ifemelu uma blogueira aclamada nos Estados Unidos, mas o tempo e o
sucesso no atenuaram o apego sua terra natal, tampouco anularam sua
ligao com Obinze. Quando ela volta para a Nigria, ter de encontrar seu
lugar num pas muito diferente do que deixou e na vida de seu companheiro de
adolescncia. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie parte de uma histria de amor para
debater questes prementes e universais como imigrao, preconceito racial e
desigualdade de gnero.

Encontre o livro aqui.

SUGESTO CONTIOUTRA: Indicamos uma palestra da autora realizada para o
TED Talks: O perigo de uma nica histria

2- VERO Cenas da vida na provncia de J.

M. Coetzee (frica do Sul)

Autor: J.

M.

Coetzee

Tradutor: Jos
Idioma: PORTUGUS

Rubens

Siqueira

Editora: COMPANHIA
Assunto: Romances
Edio:
Ano

DAS

de

Edio:

LETRAS
1
2010

Ano: 2010

SINOPSE
Vero o terceiro livro da trilogia Cenas da vida na provncia, composta
tambm por Infncia e Juventude. Coetzee lana mo de artifcios narrativos
refinados para compor um relato de fico autobiogrfica, construdo de
maneira
mltipla
e
indireta.
Quem estrutura a histria um pesquisador ingls, Vincent, interessado na
vida de John Coetzee, autor que j morreu. Para escrever a biografia de
Coetzee, Vincent recorre a outras fontes: os Cadernos do autor, com anotaes
autobiogrficas,
e
entrevistas
com
pessoas
que
o
conheceram.
O bigrafo concentra-se nos anos 1970, perodo que precede o reconhecimento
literrio do jovem John Coetzee, ento nos seus trinta anos.
Nesse momento de maturao do jovem, vivia-se a plena vigncia do
apartheid, e John Coetzee retornava de uma temporada nos Estados Unidos.
John tem de se readaptar a um pas em estado social convulsivo, ao convvio
com a famlia tradicional, de ascendncia africnder, e s desconfianas com
relao
ao
seu
comportamento
excntrico.
Os limites entre fico e autobiografia se esgaram nesta obra e permitem que
o autor sul-africano componha um retrato admirvel de si prprio, em que fala
sobre suas limitaes e seus desejos, sobre suas posies polticas, filosficas,
pedaggicas e estticas. Neste excepcional Vero, no h espao para vaidade
ou autocomiserao. Ao contrrio, imperam o senso crtico, a autoironia e a
inventividade literria.

Enconte o livro aqui.

3- Luuanda de Jos Luandino Vieira (Angola)

Autor: VIEIRA,
Idioma: PORTUGUS
Editora: COMPANHIA
Assunto: Contos
Edio: 1

DAS
e

JOSE

LUANDINO
LETRAS
Crnicas

Ano: 2006

SINOPSE
As trs narrativas aqui reunidas retratam a dura realidade dos musseques
angolanos os bairros pobres de Luanda, onde o prprio autor viveu. Minha
preocupao era ser o mais fiel possvel quela realidade. [] Se a fome, a
explorao, o desemprego, surgem com muita evidncia [] porque isso era
digamos assim o aqurio onde meus personagens e eu circulvamos,
afirma
Luandino.
E, dura realidade parte, Luandino cria personagens memorveis. Como vav

Xxi e seu neto, que, sem trabalho e sem dinheiro, no dispensa a camisa
florida ou o amor de Delfina, para desespero da av (Vav Xxi e seu neto Zeca
Santos). Ou o Garrido Kamtuta, atormentado pelo papagaio que ganhava as
carcias que Incia lhe recusava (Estria do ladro e do papagaio). Ou nga
Zefa e sua vizinha, que disputam a posse de um ovo de galinha (Estria da
galinha
e
do
ovo).
Essas histrias curtas, narradas com grande maestria e um colorido muito
especial, buscam na oralidade inspirao para recriar a linguagem e nos fazem
lembrar da nossa prpria trajetria literria.

Encontre o livro aqui

4- Terra
Sonmbula de
(Moambique)

Mia

Autor: COUTO, MIA

Idioma: PORTUGUS
Editora: COMPANHIA DAS LETRAS
Assunto: Literatura Internacional Romances
Edio: 1
Ano: 2007

Couto

SINOPSE
Um nibus incendiado em uma estrada poeirenta serve de abrigo ao velho
Tuahir e ao menino Muidinga, em fuga da guerra civil devastadora que grassa
por toda parte em Moambique. Depois de dez anos de guerra anticolonial
(1965- 1975), o pas do sudeste africano viu-se s voltas com um longo e
sangrento conflito interno que se estendeu de 1976 a 1992. O veculo est
cheio de corpos carbonizados. Mas h tambm um outro corpo beira da
estrada, junto a uma mala que abriga os cadernos de Kindzu, o longo dirio do
morto em questo. A partir da, duas histrias so narradas paralelamente a
viagem de Tuahir e Muidinga e, em flashback, o percurso de Kindzu em busca
dos naparamas, guerreiros tradicionais, abenoados pelos feiticeiros, que so,
aos olhos do garoto, a nica esperana contra os senhores da guerra.

Encontre o livro aqui.

5- BARROCO TROPICAL de Jos Eduardo
Agualusa (Angola)

Autor: AGUALUSA, JOSE EDUARDO

Idioma: PORTUGUS

Editora: COMPANHIA DAS LETRAS

Assunto: Literatura Internacional Romances

Edio: 1

Ano: 2009

SINOPSE
Barroco tropical um livro ambicioso, de grande flego e densidade. A ao se
passa em Luanda no ano de 2020 e narrada alternadamente pelo escritor
Bartolomeu Falcato e pela cantora Kianda, sua amante. Os dois testemunham
juntos um fato inslito, a queda de uma mulher literalmente do cu. A
mulher em questo uma modelo e ex-miss que frequentou a cama de
polticos e empresrios de expresso, o que a tornou uma figura incmoda para
o
establishment.
Numa narrativa que avana e recua livremente no tempo e que se desloca
entre a frica, a Europa e o Brasil, Agualusa traa um retrato vivo e pulsante da
sociedade angolana atual, onde as tradies ancestrais convivem de modo nem
sempre pacfico com uma modernidade mal assimilada. Essas contradies
esto sintetizadas no prdio onde mora o escritor Falcato, a Termiteira,
futurstica torre de sessenta andares, o maior edifcio do continente, que no
terminou de ser construdo e j est em runas, abrigando os ricos nos andares
superiores
e
a
ral
social
e
criminal
no
subsolo.
Mes de santo e curandeiros convivem nestas pginas com figurinistas de fama
internacional, empresrios da aviao, militares golpistas e traficantes de
drogas
e
de
armas.
Romance generoso e exuberante, cheio de personagens pitorescos, Barroco
tropical reflete desde o ttulo o que Agualusa identificou em seu pas como
uma certa cultura do excesso, quer na maneira de as pessoas se divertirem,
quer
na
maneira
de
demonstrarem
o
sentimento
e
a
dor.
O inslito est sempre presente, mas intimamente entrelaado ao prosaico e ao
cotidiano, pois, como declarou o autor, referindo-se a Angola, Portugal e Brasil,
nos nossos pases a realidade tende a ser muito mais inverossmil do que a
fico.

Encontre o livro aqui.

6- O
MELHOR
TEMPO

O
PRESENTE de Nadine Gordimer (frica do
Sul)

Autor: GORDIMER, NADINE

Tradutor: BRITTO, PAULO HENRIQUES
Idioma: PORTUGUS
Editora: COMPANHIA DAS LETRAS
Assunto: Literatura Internacional
Edio: 1
Ano: 2014

SINOPSE
Amantes clandestinos no passado, devido s leis raciais que proibiam relaes
entre negros e brancos, hoje Jabulile Gumede e Steve Reed vivem numa frica
do Sul democrtica. Ambos foram ativistas que lutaram com todas as foras
pelo fim do apartheid, e seus filhos, felizmente, j nasceram em um tempo e
em um lugar de liberdade. Mas medida que os ideais de uma vida melhor
para todos so ameaados por tenses polticas e raciais, pela ressaca das
ambiguidades morais e pelo enorme abismo entre os privilegiados e a grande
massa pobre que s aumenta a cada dia, o casal pensa em abandonar o pas
pelo
qual
tanto
lutou.
Um exemplo perfeito daquilo que a literatura nos proporciona e os livros de
histria no tm como proporcionar. The New York Times Book Review
Ler O melhor tempo o presente mergulhar no caldeiro que frica do Sul
hoje. Los Angeles Times

Encontre o livro aqui.

7. A
SUL.
Pepetela (Angola)

SOMBREIRO de

Autor: PEPETELA
Idioma: PORTUGUS
Editora: LEYA
Assunto: Literatura

BRASIL
Internacional Romances

Edio: 1
Ano: 2012

SINOPSE
Este livro busca retratar a histria de Manuel Cerveira Pereira, governador de
Angola de 1615 a 1617, conduzindo o leitor a Angola dos sculos XVI e XVII,
enquanto Portugal vivia sob domnio filipino. O livro aborda um perodo que,
segundo o autor, pouco conhecido da histria de Angola, sobretudo a parte

relativa fundao da cidade de Benguel. Ele ressalta que a ideia desses

promotores da fundao da cidade de Benguela, que conjecturavam a
existncia de cobre na regio, tinha a ver com a criao de uma colnia que
viesse ocupar todo o Sul de frica. O autor disse que tal propsito acabou com
o fracasso do conquistador portugus Manuel Cerveira Pereira, pois no
conseguiu encontrar o cobre que sustentava a sua ideia de fundar a cidade de
Benguela. De acordo com Pepetela, o conquistador portugus aproveitou,
entretanto, o fato de ter encontrado escravos em Benguela e fez muito
comrcio para o Brasil, frisando que mais tarde houve a anexao de Benguela
Colnia de Angola. Pepetela tambm prope uma discusso sobre as razes
fundamentais da criao da cidade de Benguela, alm da identidade nacional.
SUGESTO CONTIOUTRA: Crtica da Veja A cor e o poder de Angola no sculo
XVII

Encontre o livro aqui.

A matria atual foi baseada na original 10 libros africanos para las
vacaciones, de autoria de Alejandro de los Santos
Adaptada para o portugus com autorizao do site de origem:

Ler mais: http://www.contioutra.com/7-escritores-africanos-que-voce-naopode-deixar-de-ler/#ixzz4ErG1655k

http://www.afribuku.com/libros-africanos-literaturavacaciones/

10 libros africanos para las vacaciones

Alejandro de los Santos

Las vacaciones son uno de los pocos momentos del ao que nos permiten dedicarnos en
cuerpo y alma a una lectura que nos asle y nos traslade a tiempos, espacios y reflexiones
inusitadas. Quiz la literatura de viajes no llegue a cumplir del todo esta funcin, pues el
relato se construye casi siempre en base al otro, a una diferencia a la que estamos ms que
acostumbrados. En este tipo de libros raramente se discurre acerca del comportamiento y de
las costumbres de uno mismo. Siempre l o ella, en singular o en plural. Y frica sufre
justamente de esa curiosidad extica desde mediados del siglo XIX, algo que obviamente ha
perjudicado a la difusin de su literatura. Filas de estanteras en bibliotecas y libreras bajo la
denominacin de literatura africana con nombres de viajeros y de escritores europeos como
Joseph Conrad o Gustave Flaubert. Los africanos seguirn siendo un mero decorado al estilo
de El corazn de las tinieblas, mientras no exista inters alguno por sus escritores. Por esta
misma razn, hemos seleccionado diez obras de autores africanos traducidos al
espaol, que nos ofrezcan intensas horas de viaje a travs de sus pginas y de su
pensamiento.

1. Americanah de Chimamanda Adichie (Nigeria)

El libro trendy africano del momento llega en el momento de mxima

popularidad de su autora a nivel internacional. Novela basada en una historia de amor de
una pareja dividida por la distancia. Ella, residente en EEUU se va americanizando poco a
poco, reflexiona a travs de su blog acerca del proceso que la est convirtiendo en
una americanah y sobre cmo asimila su nueva cultura frente a su pasado nigeriano. Adichie

nos presenta una novela fresca e inteligente que ofrece una visin moderna de los
emigrantes africanos con ttulo universitario.Americanah derriba prejuicios sobre raza, origen
y cultura para acercarnos a una historia de adaptacin cultural y amorosa que vive la pareja
protagonista.
Editorial Mondadori, 2014 24,90 Ver aqu.

2. Verano de J. M. Coetzee (Sudfrica)

No podemos olvidar al ltimo africano galardonado con el Premio Nobel

de Literatura. Coetzee es de esos autores de los que no se puede leer un nico libro. Tras
sonados xitos como Esperando a los brbaros (1980) o Desgracia (1999), las memorias
noveladas del autor sudafricano son probablemente sus creaciones ms sobresalientes. De
los tres tomos de la obra, nos quedamos con el ltimo, Verano (2009). El planteamiento es
fascinante: un bigrafo decide escribir sobre la vida de Coetzee a travs de entrevistas a
cinco personas que fueron decisivas mientras el autor se hallaba en vida. No slo destaca la
capacidad sobrenatural de plantear la narracin, sino la sinceridad que muestra con su propia
existencia.
Editorial Mondadori, 2012 18,90 Ver aqu.

3. Black Bazar de Alain Mabanckou (R. Congo)

La SAPE (Sociedad de Ambientadores y Personas Elegantes) del Congo es

uno de los movimientos estticos ms extravagantes de nuestros tiempos. Alain Mabanckou,
una de las voces ms originales de las letras en lengua francesa del momento, construye un
universo narrativo centrado en personajes cuya aparente mayor aspiracin es lucir zapatos,
corbatas y trajes de las firmas ms refinadas del mundo. El protagonista, residente en Pars

desde hace quince aos, decide ponerse a escribir y as dejar constancia de las
contradicciones de su universo personal. Un relato sensacional en el que la irona y el humor
desterrnillante vencen a la lgrima gratuita.
Editorial Alfanhu, 2010 20 Ver aqu.

4. El pan a secas de Mohamed Chukri (Marruecos)

Son pocos los autores de renombre que se familiarizan con la lectura y la

escritura por primera vez pasados los 20 aos de edad. Es el caso de Mohamed Chukri, que
en El pan a secas narra las visicitudes de una infancia marcada por la pobreza, la
marginacin y la violencia. Se trata de uno de los testimonios ms lcidos sobre el norte de
Marruecos durante los aos de gobierno del protectorado espaol. Asimismo, este escritor
maldito se code en Tnger con verdaderos genios de la literatura como Jean Genet, Paul
Bowles, Juan Goytisolo y con figuras destacadas de la generacin beat como William
Burroughs.
Editorial Narrativa Cabaret Voltaire, 2014 19,95 Ver aqu.

5. Los pies sucios de Edem Awumey (Togo)

El exilio es una de las preocupaciones centrales de Edem Awumey, autor

togols al que tuvimos la oportunidad de entrevistar hace unos meses. Esta novela relata la
condicin de tantos inmigrantes que vieron a sus familiares partir y nunca ms volvieron.
Desaparecieron en cuerpo presente pero no lograron borrar el sentimiento traumtico de la
ausencia en quienes permanecieron en la tierra natal. Askia viaja a Pars buscando
interpretaciones posibles a la marcha de su padre. El encuentro con Olia, que asegura
haberlo fotografiado aos antes, generar una serie de tramas sobre su propia historial
familiar que el autor eslabona de forma magistral.

Editorial Baile del Sol, 201312 Ver aqu.

6. Hoy mejor que maana de Nadine Gordimer (Sudfrica)

Tras el reciente fallecimiento de la nica mujer africana galardonada con el

Nobel de literatura, no podemos dejar de recomendar la obra de esta excepcional escritora y
activista. En este libro nos introduce en la evolucin de una familia mixta residente en la
periferia de Johannesburgo durante los aos posteriores al apartheid. Las promesas de una
sociedad ms igualitaria hace jirones ante la cruda realidad que viven los sudafricanos desde
los primeros das del gobierno de Mandela. Sin embargo, la esperanza surge una y otra vez
en la mente de los ciudadanos, sobre todo tras haber arrancado del poder a un sistema
racista que pareca haberse fosilizado hasta la eternidad.
Editorial Narrativa del Acantilado, 2013 29 Ver aqu.

7. El asesino de Banconi de Moussa Konat (Mali)

Moussa Konat fue otro de los grandes narradores africanos que

fallecieron en el ltimo ao. Quiz sea el autor de novela negra (de intriga, evidentemente)
ms destacado de todo el continente. Este libro es uno de los episodios imprescindibles de
dos personajes que marcan la obra del escritor maliense: el comisario Habib y el inspector
Sosso. Uno racional e intelectual, el otro telrico y desenfadado, ambos tratan de resolver el
misterio de tres asesinatos aparentemente sin conexin que ocurren en el barrio de Banconi,
en Bamako. Supersticiones ancestrales envueltas en tramas contemporneas no siempre
fciles de resolver.
Editorial Almuzara, 2008 16,00 Ver aqu.

8. Buenos das camaradas de Ondjaki (Angola)

Mientras

esperamos

la

traduccin

al

castellano

del

sensacional Os

transparentes(2013), ltimo libro de Ondjaki, nos parece adecuado recomendar una de las
obras ms significativas de este joven autor. Cuba fue uno de los grandes peones del proceso
de descolonizacin de Angola y tuvo un papel fundamental en los primeros aos de
independencia. Este libro es un periplo retrospectivo hacia la infancia y las races del autor,
que destapa en primera persona las dificultades que vivi un pas que se convirti en el
ncleo de las pugnas entre los dos grandes bloques ideolgicos de la Guerra Fra.
Editorial Txalaparta 2010 16,50 Ver aqu.

9. Metro de Magdy El Shafee (Egipto)

Una novela grfica que se convirti en uno de los libros ms polmicos

de los ltimos aos en Egipto. En los das previos a la Revolucin, el cmic fue censurado, su
autor acab detenido y tan slo vio la luz en las libreras egipcias a principios de 2013.
Publicado en el ao 2008, su contenido expone la corrupcin de los poderes fcticos y el
sofoco en el que sobrevive una poblacin cada vez ms crtica y consciente. La obra no ha
sido traducida al castellano por el momento, aunque siempre podemos armarnos de valor y
desempolvar nuestro ingls para leerla.
Editorial Henry Holt, 2012 24,84 Ver aqu.

10. El patio de las sombras de Mia Couto (Mozambique)

La literatura infantil africana no es uno de los gneros ms

difundidos en lengua espaola. Este cuento tradicional de la etnia makonde fue ilustrado por
el genial pintor Malangatana y adaptado por el extraordinario escritor Mia Couto, a quien
ya entrevistamos en afribuku. En esta edicin podemos encontrar tanto la versin del
reconocido escritor mozambiqueo como el propio cuento en bruto. En este pequeo relato
vemos cmo la estrecha lnea entre la vida y la muerte se dan la mano en el imaginario
mozambiqueo. Hasta tal punto de que en ocasiones llegan a confundirse.
Contes pel Mn, 2013 9,95 Ver aqu.