Irene Marques
Biographic Data
| ID | 155017 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Irene Marques |
| GIVEN NAMES | Irene |
| FAMILY NAME | Marques |
| SIGNATURE | MARQUES I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4726-800X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Five poems
Suspending the 'lack' through art
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 poetic speech and relational, holistic and mystical epistemologies-and the ideas defended by some western…
Two stories from Mia Couto's collection O Fio Das Missangas
There were three of them: Gilda, Flornela and Evelina.1 They were the daughters of the widow Rosaldo, who since his wife had passed, had isolated himself so much that his daughters had forgotten ev
The Way/s of ‘Poetry’
The mirror of colonial trauma in Honwana's short stories
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 study my analysis will concentrate on three stories from this collection: ‘Inventory of Furniture an…
Suspending the 'lack' through art
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 poetic speech and relational, holistic and mystical epistemologies-and the ideas defended by some western…
The mirror of colonial trauma in Honwana's short stories
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 study my analysis will concentrate on three stories from this collection: ‘Inventory of Furniture an…
The Way/s of ‘Poetry’
Two stories from Mia Couto's collection O Fio Das Missangas
There were three of them: Gilda, Flornela and Evelina.1 They were the daughters of the widow Rosaldo, who since his wife had passed, had isolated himself so much that his daughters had forgotten ev
Suspending the 'lack' through art
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 poetic speech and relational, holistic and mystical epistemologies-and the ideas defended by some western…
Five poems
Art (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · History (3 works) · Literature, Culture, and Criticism (3 works) · Poetry (3 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · History (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works)