Addresses the Lusophone Black Atlantic as a space of historical and cultural production between Portugal, Brazil, and Africa. The authors demonstrate how it has been shaped by diverse colonial cultures including the Portuguese imperial project. The Lusophone context offers a unique perspective on the history of the Atlantic. 272pp, UK. PALGRAVE.

A volume in the 'Portuguese Encounters with the World in the Age of the Discoveries' series. Contents: 1. Contacts of the early Portuguese navigators with the peoples of the East African coast; 2. Early description of East Africa and its peoples; 3. The Portuguese factory; The Silveira mission; 5. The Barreto-Homem expedition; 6. The Zimba; 7. Portuguese descriptions of the peoples of East Africa; 8. Shipwrecks and the South; 9. Portuguese wars in the interior in the seventeenth century; 10. Descriptions of Portuguese towns and settlements; 11. Journeys of exploration; 12. Decline & fall of the Portuguese on the Zimbabwe plateau. xxxii, 192pp. Gloss., Bib., Index. UK. ASHGATE PUBLISHERS, 0754601811

A study of the connections between nationhood, sex and gender in lusophone countries. The author uses the critical lenses of gay and lesbian studies, feminist and postmodern theory and postcolonial perspectives to address the literature of the Portuguese speaking world. Index, notes, refs, xxxvii, 317pp, USA. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS, 0816639213

A collection of historical essays on the Portuguese colonial expansion in Africa, focusing mostly on Angola. Birmingham surveys this colonial encounter from its earliest roots and casts new light on its traumatic legacies. Chapters headings include Traditions, Migrations and Cannibalism; Iberian Conquistadores and African Resisters in the Kongo Kingdom; and Black and White in Angolan Fiction. Index, notes, viii, 203pp, UK. PALGRAVE.

A concise survey of history and change from the 1870s to the 1970s. Index, bib, gloss, 278pp, UK. HURST & CO.

1981 9780905838496 Paperback

Presents domestic architecture as a marker of cultural identity and social status in pre-colonial africa. Sheds light on the fluidity of social change and formations of identity in Lusophone communities. Index, bib, notes, b/w photos, maps, x, 208pp, USA. INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS, 0253215528

A comprehensive study of the post independence Portuguese and Creole literatures of Angola, Mozambique, Guinea Bissau, Cape Verde, and Sao Tome and Principe. Places it in the historical context, with many quotations in the original language and in translation. Index, bib, vi, 314pp, UK. HURST & Co, 1850652511

An examination of cultural survival and creolisation in Brazil, focusing on the first cultures of central Africa from which the slaves came such as the Ndembu, Imbangala, Kongo amongst others. The author argues that many cultural practices including kinship, divination, and dietary restrictions were transferred and remained constant during the early period though meanings of rituals often changed as slaves coped with their new environment. Index, bib, notes, map, xiv, 296pp, USA. UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS, 0807854824

A collection of critical essays by emergent scholars on the work of neglected writers from Portuguese-speaking Africa. Index, notes, 254pp, USA. AFRICA WORLD PRESS, 0865438463