This book represents a groundbreaking contribution to the scholarship on African literatures and particularly for the analysis of the complex and intertwined relations between South Africa, Mozambique and, more broadly, the Portuguese-speaking world. The collection offers compelling readings of these literary connections engaging with relevant critical debates within the fields of comparative studies, postcolonial theory, and world literature and, therefore, advancing new critical paths within contemporary literary studies.

Elena Brugioni, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil

Literary Connections Between South Africa and the Lusophone World is a refreshing volume, whose essays provide remarkable insights into the cultural composition of Southern Africa and its colonial and postcolonial inheritances. As the first collection of essays to engage the Portuguese-speaking world’s many touchpoints with South Africa, this original volume offers a wonderful model for rethinking the Global South beyond colonial boundaries.

Lanie Millar, University of Oregon

Ranging from Camões to J. M. Coetzee and Lília Momplé, this volume offers an updated and nuanced take on the English-Portuguese fault line in literatures of southern Africa. Moving beyond the narrowly anglophone gaze, and attentive to local complexities of language, race and form, the contributions prompt us to rethink the region’s literary history. Highly recommended reading for students and scholars alike.

Stefan Helgesson, Stockholm University

The essays in this book make a true scholarly contribution in mapping out connections between English and Portuguese writings from Southern Africa. Attentive to neglected writers, as well as established figures like J. M. Coetzee, André Brink, and Fernando Pessoa, this volume effectively asserts the value of considering world literature from the vantage of the global South and beyond the hegemony of English.

Rita Barnard, University of Pennsylvania