João Paulo Borges Coelho, João Albasini e a Globalização da Literatura Moçambicana

In O Olho de Hertzog (2010), set in the immediate aftermath of the First World War, the Mozambican writer João Paulo Borges Coelho presents a cosmopolitan panorama of colonial south-eastern Africa. «Mozambique» emerges here not primarily as a Portuguese colonial space but as a site of multipleentanglements between interests: transnational and local, European and African, South African and Mozambican, British and German, colonial and proto-nationalist. In such a way, and differently from previous Mozambican literature, O Olho de Hertzog performs a complex act of worlding that exceeds the bounded colonial/ national space of Mozambique, but resists synthesis. This cosmopolitanism can be read expressive of the strained relations and constitutive hierarchies ofcolonial society as well as, by implication, of contemporary globalisation. The most important index of such a critical cosmopolitanism is the trope of the «two worlds» of Lourenço Marques, embodied in the central character João Albasini, legendary mestiço activist and founder of the proto-nationalist journal O Brado Africano (1918-1974). Albasini functions as a Virgil for the protagonist Hans Mahrenholz’s descent into the colonial inferno of Mozambique. Not least byciting documentary material –Albasini’s editorials and shop signs in Lourenço Marques– Coelho problematises the divisions of the colonial city, sustained by international capital, and provides a sharp contrast to the otherwise dominant «European» narrative of novel, which revolves around a fabled diamond and white South African intrigue.Em O Olho de Hertzog, situado no pós-guerra em 1919, o escritor moçambicano João Paulo Borges Coelho apresenta um panorama cosmopolita da África austral e oriental nos tempos coloniais. «Moçambique» manifesta-se aqui não tanto como uma colónia portuguesa, mas sim como um sítio ondemúltiplos e divergentes interesses se entrelaçam: locais e transnacionais, europeus e africanos, sul-africanos e moçambicanos, britânicos e alemães, coloniais e proto-nacionais. Deste modo, e de uma forma que distingue o romance no quadro da literatura moçambicana, O Olho de Hertzog alcança um tipo de «worlding» que vai além do espaço colonial/nacional de Moçambique, sem no entanto admitir uma síntese. Este cosmopolitismo poderá ser lido como uma expressão das relações complexas e das hierarquias inerentes à sociedade colonial, e também (implicitamente) da globalização contemporânea. A mais importante concretização dum tal cosmopolitismo crítico é a figura dos «doismundos» de Lourenço Marques, incorporada na personagem central de João Albasini, o lendário ativista mestiço e fundador de O Brado Africano, um jornal proto-nacionalista (1918-1974). Albasini funciona como um Virgílio tutelar para a descida do protoganista Hans Mahrenholz ao inferno colonial de Lourenço Marques. Em especial, por citar material documentário –desde editoriais deAlbasini a anúncios em Lourenço Marques– Coelho problematiza as divisões da cidade colonial, sustentadas pelo capital internacional, e fornece um contraste agudo à narrativa «europeia» –que tem a ver com um diamante famoso e intrigas sul-africanas– que domina o romance.En O Olho de Hertzog, situado la posguerra de la Primera guerra mundial, el escritor Mozambiqueño João Paulo Borges Coelho presenta un panorama cosmopolita del África colonial del sudeste. "Mozambique" surge aquí no principalmente como un espacio portugués colonial, sino como un sitio de múltiples enredos entre intereses: transnacional y local, europeo y africano, sudafricano y Mozambiqueño, británico y alemán, colonial y proto-nacionalista. De tal modo, y de manera diferente de la literatura anterior Mozambiqueña, la O Olho de Hertzog realiza un acto complejo de mundialización que excede el espacio colonial / nacional de Mozambique, pero se opone a la síntesis. Este cosmopolitanism puede ser leído expresivo de las relaciones estiradas y las jerarquías constitutivas de sociedad colonial así como, por implicación, de globalización contemporánea. El índice más importante de cosmopolitanismo crítico es el titulado "Dos mundos " de Marques Lourenço, incorporado en el carácter central João Albasini, el activista legendario mestiço y el fundador del diario proto-nacionalista Brado Africano (1918-1974). Albasini actúa como Virgilio en el descenso del protagonista Hans Mahrenholz en el infierno colonial de Mozambique. No lo menos por citando los editoriales del-Albasini documental material y la tienda firma a Marques Lourenço - Coelho problematises las divisiones de la ciudad colonial, sostenida por la capital internacional, y proporciona un contraste agudo para la narrativa dominante de otra manera "europea" de novela, que gira alrededor de una intriga fabulosa de diamante y blanca sudafricana

Literature and the World

Literature and the World presents a broad and multifaceted introduction to world literature and globalization. The book provides a brief background and history of the field followed by a wide spectrum of exemplary readings and case studies from around the world. Amongst other aspects of World Literature, the authors look at: New approaches to digital humanities and world literature Ecologies of world literature Rethinking geography in a globalized world Translation Race and political economy Offering state of the art debates on world literature, this volume is a superb introduction to the field. Its critically thoughtful approach makes this the ideal guide for anyone approaching World Literature

May Hawas, ed. The Routledge Companion to World Literature and World History

World literature and world history can seem like a match made in heaven. In her own contribution to this impressively wide-ranging companion, the editor May Hawas makes two claims in support of such a view. The first is that world history offers an understanding of the “maturation of global networks over time” (219). The second is that world-historical crises can be posited as nodal points through which we can study literary production and reception. Her key example is the Suez Canal, a pre-e..

Deslocando campos: imaginando a renovação literária em Itinerário e Drum

Este artigo mira seu olhar nos inícios das culturas literárias antiapartheid/anticolonial em Johanesburgo e Maputo (antiga Lourenço Marques) depois da Segunda Guerra Mundial, prestando atenção especificamente aos modos pelos quais tentaram cultivar uma estética da “novidade”. Focalizando nos influentes jornais Drum (1951 -) e Itinerário (1941 – 1955), argumento que ambos aproveitaram-se de correntes intelectuais transnacionais tais como o Harlem Renaissance e sua escrita, mas que as redes discursivas próprias do inglês e do português contribuíram para uma diferenciação de suas propostas estéticas. Itinerário atuou como uma espécie de vanguarda resistente à cultura colonial e burguesa. Drum tinha uma visada mais mercadológica e alcançou em sua primeira fase um compromisso entre um apelo a uma cultura de massa racializada e os ideais literários orientados por uma missão educacional dos negros sul-africanos. Essas diferenças podem ser então tornadas fatores explicativos em uma análise das diferenças persistentes entre as literaturas da África do Sul e de Moçambique

Literature and the World

Literature and the World presents a broad and multifaceted introduction to world literature and globalization. The book provides a brief background and history of the field followed by a wide spectrum of exemplary readings and case studies from around the world. Amongst other aspects of World Literature, the authors look at: New approaches to digital humanities and world literature Ecologies of world literature Rethinking geography in a globalized world Translation Race and political economy Offering state of the art debates on world literature, this volume is a superb introduction to the field. Its critically thoughtful approach makes this the ideal guide for anyone approaching World Literature

History Begins in the Future: On Historical Sensibility in the Age of Technology

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Ethical deliberations about involuntary treatment: interviews with Swedish psychiatrists

Background: Involuntary treatment is a key issue in healthcare ethics. In this study, ethical issues relating to involuntary psychiatric treatment are investigated through interviews with Swedish psychiatrists. Methods: In-depth interviews were conducted with eight Swedish psychiatrists, focusing on their experiences of and views on compulsory treatment. In relation to this, issues about patient autonomy were also discussed. The interviews were analysed using a descriptive qualitative approach. Results: The answers focus on two main aspects of compulsory treatment. Firstly, deliberations about when and why it was justifiable to make a decision on involuntary treatment in a specific case. Here the cons and pros of ordering compulsory treatment were discussed, with particular emphasis on the consequences of providing treatment vs. refraining from ordering treatment. Secondly, a number of issues relating to background factors affecting decisions for or against involuntary treatment were also discussed. These included issues about the Swedish Mental Care Act, healthcare organisation and the care environment. Conclusions: Involuntary treatment was generally seen as an unwanted exception to standard care. The respondents’ judgments about involuntary treatment were typically in line with Swedish law on the subject. However, it was also argued that the law leaves room for individual judgments when making decisions about involuntary treatment. Much of the reasoning focused on the consequences of ordering involuntary treatment, where risk of harm to the therapeutic alliance was weighed against the assumed good consequences of ensuring that patients received needed treatment. Cases concerning suicidal patients and psychotic patients who did not realise their need for care were typically held as paradigmatic examples of justified involuntary care. However, there was an ambivalence regarding the issue of suicide as it was also argued that risk of suicide in itself might not be sufficient for justified involuntary care. It was moreover argued that organisational factors sometimes led to decisions about compulsory treatment that could have been avoided, given a more patient-oriented healthcare organisation. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12910-015-0029-5) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users

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This brief conceptual essay addresses the fundamental antinomy between, on the one hand, promoting a multilingual approach to reading and, on the other, deconstructing linguistic boundaries and identifications as such. While the concept of multilingualism pragmatically challenges monolingual habits of thinking, it fails to take account of the porousness of linguistic boundaries. Multilingualism, in this respect, is still beholden to the monolingual paradigm. Conversely, however, the deconstruction of the unity of a language risks playing fast and loose with sedimented institutional and textual histories that not only give “a” language tremendous authority but also add continuously to its qualities as a conceptual and aesthetic resource. Drawing on two examples from Kiran Desai’s novel The Inheritance of Loss (2006), the article discusses author-, text- and reader-oriented approaches to literary multilingualism, in order to arrive at a more contextualising and socially oriented notion that draws on current world literature scholarship. With “English” as its central case, a key claim here is that a regimes-approach makes it possible to speak of the multilingualism of “one” language