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Past Events - 2008
2008 Portuguese Summer Program Cultural Events
Lecture: "Stranded Empires and Interrupted Nations:
Nationhood and Ethnicity in Mozambique"
Luis Madureira
Thursday, July 17, 2008, 11:30-12:30
Library Browsing Area
Luis Madureira is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
He has written two books, Imaginary Geographies in Portuguese and Lusophone-African Literature: Narratives of Discovery and Empire (2007), which studies figurations of empire, nation and revolution in Portuguese and Lusophone African literatures, and Cannibal Modernities (2005), a reexamination of the Brazilian and Caribbean avant-gardes from a postcolonial perspective. He has published several articles on topics ranging from Luso-Brazilian literature and cinema to early modern travel narratives and postcolonial theory.
His current research focuses on the Mozambican theatre and the politics of time in contemporary Lusophone fiction.