Episode notes
Dorothee Boulanger discusses her PhD research on post-colonial Angolan literature. She outlines the findings of her book, Fiction as History: Resistance and Complicities in Angolan Postcolonial Literature, which explores the relationship between history, politics and literature in Angola.
Dorothee highlights the need for a more nuanced understanding of the prestigious status of Angolan fiction writers, discusses the masculine nature of this literature and calls upon historians to utilise fiction as a historical source.
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historyliteratureangolafiction