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The Life and Writings of Maria Teresa de Sá Nogueira

by Sandra Sousa
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781839998102
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Anthem Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Anthem Press
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 250
  • Original Price: GBP 80.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 459 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): African

Explores the life and journalism of Maria Teresa de S� Nogueira, highlighting her powerful role as a voice of resistance and testimony across colonial and postcolonial Lusophone Africa and Portugal

The Life and Writings of Maria Teresa de S� Nogueira offers a compelling historical and literary portrait of one of Mozambique's most important yet overlooked journalistic voices. Through textual analysis and exclusive interviews with her son, this book traces Maria Teresa de S� Nogueira's life and work across the shifting landscapes of colonial and postcolonial Mozambique and Portugal. It situates her journalism not only as a record of lived experience but also as a courageous act of resistance against injustice, inequality, and silence in the Lusophone world. Her voice emerges as both witness and critic, offering readers an intimate yet far-reaching account of an era marked by upheaval and transformation.More than a biographical study, this book is a nuanced theorization of Lusophone postcolonial identity through the lens of gender, migration, political struggle, and literary activism. The chapters are thematically organized to mirror the trajectory of Maria Teresa's life, interrogating the societal pressures she faced as a woman journalist, her engagement with colonial power structures, and her unrelenting advocacy for underrepresented voices. Her reportage, translated and carefully curated here, captures the contradictions of empire, the burden of memory, and the precariousness of freedom in times of sociopolitical transition. Through her work, readers encounter the personal as political and the journalistic as deeply literary.The Life and Writings of Maria Teresa de S� Nogueira fills a long-standing gap in Lusophone literary and cultural studies. It will resonate with students and scholars of postcolonial studies, journalism, African and Portuguese history, and gender studies, particularly within the context of Mozambique and Lusophone Africa. But it also speaks to a wider audience eager to understand how a single voice--bold, persistent, and principled--can illuminate the entangled legacies of colonialism and the enduring fight for justice. This is a book that invites readers not only to remember but also to reckon with history through the fearless writing of Maria Teresa de S� Nogueira.

Sandra Sousa is professor in the Modern Languages and Literatures Department at the University of Central Florida, where she teaches Portuguese language, Lusophone Studies, and Latin American Studies. Her research focuses on colonialism and postcolonialism; Portuguese colonial literature; race relations in Mozambique; war, dictatorship, and violence in contemporary Portuguese and Luso-African literature; and feminine writing in Portuguese, Brazilian, and African literature.

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