Ana Mafalda Leite

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Ana Mafalda de Morais Leite , also Ana Mafalda Leite for short (born August 23, 1956 in Aveiro , Portugal ) is a Portuguese writer and Lusitanist .

Life

Ana Mafalda de Morais Leite was born on August 23, 1956 in the northern Portuguese city of Aveiro. Just a few months after she was born, she and her family moved to Moatize ( Tete Province ) in Mozambique . She lived in what was then the Portuguese colony until she was 18 (1974).

Back in Portugal as a “ retornado ”, Leite first studied Romance studies at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Lisbon (until 1978). In 1978 she began to work as an assistant at the faculty and later, until 1986, studied her Masters in Lusophonic literature from Brazil and Africa. This was followed by a Ph.D. (until 1989) in African literature and a post-doc in Romance studies (1999), both also at the University of Lisbon. In 2007 she received a professorship at the humanities faculty of the university. She also conducts research at the Centro de Estudos sobre África, Ásia e América Latina (CESA) of the Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão (ISEG).

Although she remained loyal to her alma mater , Leite held numerous visiting professorships around the world, mainly at Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo , but also as visiting professorships in Cape Verde (Instituto Superior Pedagógico), Brown University and UMass (Amherst / Dartmouth ), Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), São Paulo (USP), Paris (Sorbonne III).

Leites research concentrates above all on the Luso-African literature and justifies this mainly because, according to her own statements, especially with her youth in Mozambique. Furthermore, she deals with post-colonial studies , cultural studies and comparative literature studies.

Works

Articles / essays

  • 1995: Modalização Épica nas Literaturas Africanas
  • 1999: A Poética de José Craveirinha
  • 1998: Oralidades & Escritas nas Literaturas Africanas
  • 2003: Literaturas Africanas e Formulações Pós-Coloniais

Poems

  • 1984: Em Sombra Acesa
  • 1989: Canções de Alba
  • 1992: Mariscando Luas (together with the painter Roberto Chichorro and the poet Luís Carlos Patraquim)
  • 1999: Rosas da China
  • 2002: Passaporte do Coração
  • 2005: Livro das Encantações

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d CURRICULUM VITAE - Ana Mafalda de Morais Leite. Centro de Estudos sobre África e do Desenvolvimento, accessed on October 15, 2016 (English, undated).
personal data
SURNAME Lead, Ana Mafalda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leite, Ana Mafalda de Morais
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese writer and Lusitanist
DATE OF BIRTH 23rd August 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Aveiro , Portugal