Luísa Coelho
1) Kunuar
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Kunuar is a volume of fifty-two poems framed by the feminist and postcolonial sensibilities of the Portuguese author, Luísa Coelho. In a painful but playful manner she describes her re-discovery, in a post-colonial era, of Luanda, the capital of Angola, the country of her birth. Memory crafts a vivid dialogue between today and yesterday that sheds light on the remains of colonial Luanda s history. Kunuar, the title of both the book and the concluding...
2) Monique
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In 1929, Marguerite Yourcenar, writing in French, published her first novel, Alexis, or a Treatise on a Vain Conflict, Ý1 ̈ in the form of a letter written by a husband to the wife of three years whom he had deserted. In 2003, the Portuguese author, Lusa Coelho took up the task and created Monique in response to Yourcenars Alexis. Coelhos novella, the letter Monique wrote in return to Alexis, explodes not only Alexiss perception of Monique, but...