Doris Wieser and
Ana Filipa Prata (eds.). (2019). Cities
of the Lusophone World. Literature, Culture and Urban Transformations. Oxford and New York: Peter Lang (ISBN: 978-1-78874-253-5)
Cities of the
Lusophone World addresses diverse literary and cultural representations of
urban settings produced in the period from the 1960s to the present day and
originating from the Island of Mozambique, Lisbon, Luanda, Macau, Maputo, Porto
Alegre and São Paulo. The volume contributes to the interdisciplinary research
field of urban cultural studies, which lies at the crossroads between the
social sciences and the humanities. The essays gathered here consider the city
not only as a geographical configuration, but also as a historical discourse
where space and time merge and where different individual and collective
practices and actions take place. They explore how memories and identities are
framed, how people at the margins create discourses of resistance, and how
processes of migration and urban transformation disrupt established social and
cultural borders.