This book discusses colonial and postcolonial textuality under thetheoretical scope of Literary Theory, Cultural Critique andAnthropology. It focuses mostly but not exclusively on Angola andMoçambique. In these countries, both writers and literature play acentral role in the discussion of politics, thought, culture, andeducation, Ethnographic Fiction in particular emerges in this contextas a genre that allows a violent reading of history and society. Thegeneralized interest in ´the cultural in the text´ raises literaryheritage to the position of a privileged mediator for all forms ofpostwar predicament. Configuring grounded ethnographies, the fictionthat we choose to present and discuss translates simultaneously intolocalized experience, movable textuality and protean matter, since itapplies to changing knowledge, as the field demands it. This work isadjacent to the contributions of researchers who are dedicated to theLiterary and Ethnographic fields in their contemporary associations.
