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African literature
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His Chiquinho (1947) was a Portuguese-language novel, and it fell into precisely the same pattern as works composed elsewhere in Africa, such as Pita Nwana’s Igbo-language Omenuko (1935), Samuel Yosia Ntara’s Nyanja novel Nthondo (1933), and Stephen Andrea Mpashi’s Bemba story Cekesoni Aingila Ubusoja (1950); in…
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His Chiquinho (1947) was a Portuguese-language novel, and it fell into precisely the same pattern as works composed elsewhere in Africa, such as Pita Nwana’s Igbo-language Omenuko (1935), Samuel Yosia Ntara’s Nyanja novel Nthondo (1933), and Stephen Andrea Mpashi’s Bemba story Cekesoni Aingila Ubusoja (1950); in…
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Baltasar Lopes
His one novel, Chiquinho (1947), written in Portuguese, re-creates the experiences of a Cape Verdean who grows up to understand that, in his land, life is a prolonged tragedy given meaning by the assertion of human courage, unselfishness, and dignity. Chiquinho, marking the beginning of realism in the…
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His one novel, Chiquinho (1947), written in Portuguese, re-creates the experiences of a Cape Verdean who grows up to understand that, in his land, life is a prolonged tragedy given meaning by the assertion of human courage, unselfishness, and dignity. Chiquinho, marking the beginning of realism in the…
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