Pensativities: Essays and Provocations
by Mia Couto
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What would Barack Obama's 2004 campaign have looked like if it unfolded in an African nation? What does it mean to be an African writer today? How do writers and poets from all continents teach us to cross the sertô, the savannah, the barren places where we're forced to walk within ourselves? Bringing together the best pieces from his previously untranslated nonfiction collections, alongside new material presented here for the first time in any language, Pensativities offers English readers show more a taste of Mia Couto as essayist, lecturer, and journalist-with essays on cosmopolitanism, poverty, culture gaps, conservation, and more. Mia Couto, an environmental biologist from Mozambique, is the author of twenty five books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. His work has been translated into twenty languages worldwide. In 2007 he was the first African author to win the Latin Union Award for Romance Languages, in 2013 he was awarded the 100,000 Came?s Prize for Literature, and in 2014 he received World Literature Today's $50,000 Neustadt Prize for Literature. show lessTags
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- Canonical title
- Pensativities: Essays and Provocations
- Original language
- Portuguese
- Disambiguation notice
- Essays selected from three Portuguese-language collections: Pensatempos; E se Obama fosse africano?; and Pensageiro frequente.
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- Nonfiction, Literature Studies and Criticism, Fiction and Literature
- DDC/MDS
- 869.4 — Literature & rhetoric Spanish, Portuguese, Galician literatures Literatures of Portuguese and Galician languages Portuguese essays
- LCC
- PQ9939 .C68 .P46 — Language and Literature French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literatures Portuguese literature Provincial, local, colonial, etc.
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