Dealing with contemporary literary production from Brazil, Portugal, Angola, Mozambique, Cabo Verde, Macau, Canada and Goa, the volume also tries to reimagine issues of cultural labour and the expansion of artistic modes of self-definition from the point of view of contemporary literary production in Portuguese.

1. ​Introduction. Carlos Garrido Castellano and Ana Albuquerque.- 2. A Portuguese Nightmare: Resisting Neoliberalism and Neocolonialism in the Contemporary Portuguese Novel. Paulo de Medeiros.- 3. Hands Interweaving Words: José Saramago’s Creative Work as a Subversion of Neoliberalism. Daniela Maduro.- 4. “Desconseguir”: Narrative Dualities between Movement and Stillness in Kalaf Epalanga’s Também os Brancos Sabem Dançar. Ana Albuquerque.- 5. Cultural Labor and the Angolan Historical Novel. Inocência Mata.- 6. And When Are You Going Back?! Narratives of Return and Identity Building in Diasporic Brazilian and Portuguese literatures. Liz Maria Teles de Sá Almeida.- 7. Lugar de Fala (Place of Speech) and the “New Voices” in 21st Century Brazilian Fiction. Karl Erik Schøllhammer.- 8. Brazilian Literature in Times of Political Setbacks. Regina Dalcastagnè.- 9. The Jaguar’s Story: Imagining Decoloniality in Micheliny Verunschk’s O som do rugido da onça. Leila Lehnen.- 10. The Author as Curator in Recent Brazilian Fiction. Luciene Azevedo.- 11. Barbarism without Civilization: Reading Mia Couto through a Latin American Lens. Kristian Van Haesendonck.- 12. Portuguese-speaking African Writers in the World-Literary Marketplace. Thomas Waller.- 13. Power, gender and sexuality in contemporary Cape Verde: On Evel Rocha’s Marginals. Mário César Lugarinho.- 14. Precarity Frontier: Cape Verdean Literature as World Literature. Emanuelle Santos.- 15. Cultural Labor and Historical Fiction in Contemporary Macau. Fernanda Gil Costa.

This book examines the evolution of contemporary narrative in Portuguese from the point of view of cultural labour. The main objective of this volume is to analyse the panorama of contemporary literary fiction in Portuguese under the prism of the economization of cultural creativity and the expansion of neoliberal understanding of creative subjectivity and self-realization. Assuming that neoliberalism still constitutes a haunting presence that becomes present in ways that are far from universal and homogeneous and that are shaped by coloniality, this book expands the debates on cultural labour and literary materialisms beyond European and North American contexts. Dealing with contemporary literary production from Brazil, Portugal, Angola, Mozambique, Cabo Verde, Macau, Canada and Goa, the volume also tries to reimagine issues of cultural labour and the expansion of artistic modes of self-definition from the point of view of contemporary literary production in Portuguese. Carlos Garrido Castellano is Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in University College Cork, Ireland, where he coordinates a BA programme on Portuguese Studies. He is also Senior Associate Researched at the Visual Identities in Art and Design (VIAD), University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He is Principal Investigator of the IRC Laureate Consolidator Project “Assessing the Contemporary Art Novel in Spanish and Portuguese: Cultural Labour, Personal Identification and the Materialisation of Alternative Art Worlds (ARTFICTIONS) and the author of Beyond Representation in Contemporary Caribbean Art (2019), Art Activism for an Anticolonial Future (2021) and Literary Fictions of the Contemporary Art System (2023).

“This excellent and timely collection uses the labor of literary production, consumption and circulation in the Portuguese language to reconfigure contemporary debate on the construction of ‘world literature’ in neoliberal contexts. Drawing from critical expertise in all the key historic areas of Portuguese-language expression, as well as the diaspora, the result is a fascinating and engaging volume in which a series of materialist readings tease out both the possibilities and the pitfalls of ‘worlding’, and the way that writers themselves choose to deploy it.” (Hilary Owen, Professor of Portuguese and Luso-African Studies, University of Manchester and Oxford University)“This book’s overtly materialist approach to contemporary literatures in Portuguese constitutes a major point of reference for their study in the 21st century. Its combination of the study of aesthetics with serious consideration of a work’s material conditions of production, reception and circulation confers much needed visibility to emerging attempts at worlding the literatures of the Portuguese-speaking world, seen here in all its diversity through the lens of major scholars in the field.” (Emanuelle Rodrigues dos Santos, Associate Professor, University of Birmingham, UK)

Explores the evolution of contemporary literature in Portuguese from the perspective of cultural labour Expands debates on cultural and labour and literary materialisms beyond European and North American contexts Shows how contemporary literature in Portuguese interacts with other creative practices

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