Behind all these names, the sea. Mozambique and Indian Ocean: speeches, imaginary and representations

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https://doi.org/10.11606/va.v0i27.99139

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Pearl of the Indian Ocean, Mozambique, Indian Ocean, visual and written narratives

Abstract

The image of Mozambique as “The Pearl of the Indian Ocean” has its origin in the colonial era and represents, still today, one of the most common national iconographies to define the country within the official — both political and cultural — discourse (Brito, 2010). However, the very meaning and the “agency” of this image seems to imply several questions and ambiguities, offering a starting point in order to (re)think the relationship between Mozambique and the Indian Ocean. Therefore, its meaning within cultural representations, discourses and imaginary defines the Indian Ocean as a “transnational imaginative geography” (Ghosh & Mucke, 2007) and therefore an “alternative critical paradigm” (Hofmeyr, 2007) to read and situate visual and written narratives of contemporary Mozambique.

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Author Biography

  • Elena Brugioni, Centro de Estudos Humanísticos da Universidade do Minho, Portugal

    Elena Brugioni é Doutorada em Literaturas Africanas de Língua Portuguesa, Investigadora no Centro de Estudos Humanísticos – CEHUM da Universidade do Minho. As suas áreas de investigação passam pelas Literaturas Africanas, Estudos do Índico [Indian Ocean Studies] e Estudos Pós-coloniais. Desde 2010 desenvolve o projecto de Pós-doutoramento financiado pela Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Programa Operacional Potencial Humano e Fundo Social Europeu) “Provincianizando o Cânone. O questionamento das ‘grandes narrativas’ europeias em literaturas homoglotas” [SFRH/BPD/62885/2009]. É membro do GAPS - Grupo de Pesquisa em Artes, Género & estudos Pós-coloniais do Centro de Estudos Humanísticos e docente no Programa Doutoral em Modernidades Comparadas - Literaturas, Artes, Culturas da Universidade do Minho. 

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Published

2015-06-21

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Vol. 16 No. 1 (2015): Literaturas africanas de língua portuguesa e o pós-independência

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Dossiê 27: Literaturas Africanas de Língua Portuguesa e o Pós-Independência

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BRUGIONI, Elena. Behind all these names, the sea. Mozambique and Indian Ocean: speeches, imaginary and representations. Via Atlântica, São Paulo, v. 16, n. 1, p. 95–112, 2015. DOI: 10.11606/va.v0i27.99139. Disponível em: https://periodicos.usp.br/viaatlantica/article/view/99139.. Acesso em: 14 mar. 2025.