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African Lusophone Writers
Provides biographical essays on authors of the literature of the five Portuguese-speaking African countries: Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, and São Tomé and Príncipe. From the Dictionary of Literary Biography Series.

Lusophone Africa: Beyond Independence (e-book) by Fernando Arenas
A study of the contemporary cultural production of Portuguese-speaking Africa and its critical engagement with globalization in the aftermath of colonialism. Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2011
A History of Postcolonial Lusophone Africa by Patrick Chabal; David Birmingham; Joshua Forrest; Malyn Newitt
Call Number: Clapp Library DT36.7 .C48 2002
Part I examines what the five Lusophone countries have in common. In Part II, each chapter by a leading specialist focuses on one country.
The Brazil Reader: History, Politics, Culture (e-book)
Duke University Press, 2019
Brazil Imagined: 1500 to the Present by Darlene J. Sadlier
Call Number: Clapp Library F2510 .S24 2008
Univ. of Texas Press, 2008