MLA Commons | Irene Marques | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/members/irenemarques/activity/ Activity feed for Irene Marques. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 20:43:41 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 544816b15ee97b9d87c46f1b903f2157 Irene Marques deposited Spaces of Magic: Couto’s Relational Practices in the group West African Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1623241/ Thu, 08 Nov 2018 16:27:22 -0500 Through a detailed analysis of the story “The Three Sisters” from Mia Couto’s collection O Fio das Missangas (“The Bead Necklace”) published in 2004, I reveal how Couto recreates a space where relational practices are at the forefront of existence. I analyse this specific story to reveal Couto’s relational practices and its accompanyin…[Read more]

]]> 0 87bed382ada6e8bac94365e17e44fddb Irene Marques deposited Spaces of Magic: Couto’s Relational Practices in the group Postcolonial Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1623240/ Thu, 08 Nov 2018 16:27:19 -0500 Through a detailed analysis of the story “The Three Sisters” from Mia Couto’s collection O Fio das Missangas (“The Bead Necklace”) published in 2004, I reveal how Couto recreates a space where relational practices are at the forefront of existence. I analyse this specific story to reveal Couto’s relational practices and its accompanyin…[Read more]

]]> 0 87bed382ada6e8bac94365e17e44fddb Irene Marques deposited Spaces of Magic: Couto’s Relational Practices in the group Lusophone African Literatures https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1623239/ Thu, 08 Nov 2018 16:27:19 -0500 Through a detailed analysis of the story “The Three Sisters” from Mia Couto’s collection O Fio das Missangas (“The Bead Necklace”) published in 2004, I reveal how Couto recreates a space where relational practices are at the forefront of existence. I analyse this specific story to reveal Couto’s relational practices and its accompanyin…[Read more]

]]> 0 e27cadf06687dc6f07e1119eeab34044 Irene Marques deposited Looking for ‘God’ in Non-Identity: Reading the Transcendental in Agualusa’s The Book of Chameleons in the group West African Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1623238/ Thu, 08 Nov 2018 16:27:18 -0500 . I demonstrate how The Book of Chameleons is replete with metaphors of what I call the “non-self,” or “supra-self,” or even “God,” which are commonly found in Zen Buddhist thought, classical African epistemological and ontological paradigms, and more specifically, the idea of African Personality as put forward by Léopold S. Senghor or even in s…[Read more]

]]> 0 17b7225100792497a3ec863308b71572 Irene Marques deposited Looking for ‘God’ in Non-Identity: Reading the Transcendental in Agualusa’s The Book of Chameleons in the group Postcolonial Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1623237/ Thu, 08 Nov 2018 16:27:16 -0500 . I demonstrate how The Book of Chameleons is replete with metaphors of what I call the “non-self,” or “supra-self,” or even “God,” which are commonly found in Zen Buddhist thought, classical African epistemological and ontological paradigms, and more specifically, the idea of African Personality as put forward by Léopold S. Senghor or even in s…[Read more]

]]> 0 17b7225100792497a3ec863308b71572 Irene Marques deposited Looking for ‘God’ in Non-Identity: Reading the Transcendental in Agualusa’s The Book of Chameleons in the group Lusophone African Literatures https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1623236/ Thu, 08 Nov 2018 16:27:16 -0500 . I demonstrate how The Book of Chameleons is replete with metaphors of what I call the “non-self,” or “supra-self,” or even “God,” which are commonly found in Zen Buddhist thought, classical African epistemological and ontological paradigms, and more specifically, the idea of African Personality as put forward by Léopold S. Senghor or even in s…[Read more]

]]> 0 024ff35c4055d61177a6244442876496 Irene Marques deposited Suspending the ‘Lack’ Through Art: African and Western Epistemological and Artistic Intersections (Mia Couto, Wole Soyinka, Léopold Senghor, Gaston Bachelard and Mark Epstein) in the group West African Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1623235/ Thu, 08 Nov 2018 16:27:16 -0500 As a continuation of my previous transcultural comparative project, the current study aims to unearth some other similarities that exist between African classical knowledge systems, as put forward in the writing of Mia Couto and the work of other Africanists such as Wole Soyinka, Jacob Olupona and Léopold Senghor— in respect to their links to po…[Read more]

]]> 0 3ad0209e1a9015d06a565679285cb57c Irene Marques deposited Suspending the ‘Lack’ Through Art: African and Western Epistemological and Artistic Intersections (Mia Couto, Wole Soyinka, Léopold Senghor, Gaston Bachelard and Mark Epstein) in the group Postcolonial Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1623234/ Thu, 08 Nov 2018 16:27:13 -0500 As a continuation of my previous transcultural comparative project, the current study aims to unearth some other similarities that exist between African classical knowledge systems, as put forward in the writing of Mia Couto and the work of other Africanists such as Wole Soyinka, Jacob Olupona and Léopold Senghor— in respect to their links to po…[Read more]

]]> 0 3ad0209e1a9015d06a565679285cb57c Irene Marques deposited Suspending the ‘Lack’ Through Art: African and Western Epistemological and Artistic Intersections (Mia Couto, Wole Soyinka, Léopold Senghor, Gaston Bachelard and Mark Epstein) in the group Lusophone African Literatures https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1623233/ Thu, 08 Nov 2018 16:27:13 -0500 As a continuation of my previous transcultural comparative project, the current study aims to unearth some other similarities that exist between African classical knowledge systems, as put forward in the writing of Mia Couto and the work of other Africanists such as Wole Soyinka, Jacob Olupona and Léopold Senghor— in respect to their links to po…[Read more]

]]> 0 165ce2f1363e04f8b6a97b218379aabb Irene Marques deposited Spaces of Magic: Couto’s Relational Practices https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1623086/ Tue, 06 Nov 2018 23:00:45 -0500 Through a detailed analysis of the story “The Three Sisters” from Mia Couto’s collection O Fio das Missangas (“The Bead Necklace”) published in 2004, I reveal how Couto recreates a space of magic where relational practices are at the forefront of existence. I analyse this specific story to reveal Couto’s relational practices and its accompanyin…[Read more]

]]> 0 1e14af1bb9def0af08c356f6c65cdf52 Irene Marques deposited Suspending the ‘Lack’ Through Art: African and Western Epistemological and Artistic Intersections (Mia Couto, Wole Soyinka, Léopold Senghor, Gaston Bachelard and Mark Epstein) https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1623084/ Tue, 06 Nov 2018 22:44:14 -0500 As a continuation of my previous transcultural comparative project, the current study aims to unearth some other similarities that exist between African classical knowledge systems, as put forward in the writing of Mia Couto and the work of other Africanists such as Wole Soyinka, Jacob Olupona and Léopold Senghor— in respect to their links to po…[Read more]

]]> 0 c22efdab939dd5f49e81ed0f1dfad718 Irene Marques deposited Looking for ‘God’ in Non-Identity: Reading the Transcendental in Agualusa’s The Book of Chameleons https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1623083/ Tue, 06 Nov 2018 22:34:29 -0500 . I demonstrate how The Book of Chameleons is replete with metaphors of what I call the “non-self,” or “supra-self,” or even “God,” which are commonly found in Zen Buddhist thought, classical African epistemological and ontological paradigms, and more specifically, the idea of African Personality as put forward by Léopold S. Senghor or even in s…[Read more]

]]> 0 fed23ec92e2c03a01edf2ae462a63fa9 Irene Marques created the group Lusophone African Literatures https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1623080/ Tue, 06 Nov 2018 22:18:40 -0500 0 3baee0fcfc6f95cf4fc2ade79bab8c88 Irene Marques deposited Spaces of Magic: Couto’s Relational Practices https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1623075/ Tue, 06 Nov 2018 22:05:08 -0500 Through a detailed analysis of the story “The Three Sisters” from Couto’s collection O Fio das Missangas (“The Bead Necklace”) published in 2004, I reveal this space of magic, these relational practices that permeate most (if not all) of Couto’s writing, whether we are dealing with short-stories or novels or poetry. I choose to analyse this specif…[Read more]

]]> 0 4f045f254af8f7426d296405ef7206a7 Irene Marques deposited The Mirror of Colonial Trauma in Honwana’s Short Stories: The ‘Eye’ that Accuses and Incites https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1623072/ Tue, 06 Nov 2018 21:41:44 -0500 This article looks at the various ways in which the Mozambican writer, Luís Bernardo Honwana, displays colonial trauma and oppression in his short story collection, Nós Matámos o Cão‐Tinhoso, first published in 1964, and then in 1969 as an English translation with the title We Killed Mangy‐Dog and Other Mozambican Stories. Due to the scope of this…[Read more]

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