[eBook] [PDF] For Dissident Authorship in Mozambique 1st Edition By Mr Tom Stennett

[eBook] [PDF] For Dissident Authorship in Mozambique 1st Edition By Mr Tom Stennett

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.