Pepetela and the MPLA: The Ethical Evolution of a Revolutionary Writer

Phillip Rothwell

Pepetela and the MPLA
The Ethical Evolution of a Revolutionary Writer

Phillip Rothwell

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'Pepetela', Artur Carlos dos Santos (1941-), Angolan novelist

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Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures 36

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30 April 2019 • 190pp

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Angola's most acclaimed author, Pepetela (b. 1941), has been publishing fiction for over half a century. His work bears witness to the birth and monumental transformations of one of Africa's most resource-rich nations. A former guerrilla and member of the ruling MPLA (the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola), Pepetela writes in response to the anti-colonial struggle, national independence, a decades-long civil war, a Marxist-Leninist experiment and Angola's acquiescence to the trends of globalization. In this wide-ranging study, Phillip Rothwell interrogates Pepetela's symbiotic and fraught relationship with the MPLA, the author's prescient critiques of the changes (and continuities) in Angola's political direction, and his ambiguous compromises made as a writer and militant, faced with the unpalatable choices of the Revolution and the male chauvinism of the Marxist New Man.

Phillip Rothwell is King John II Professor of Portuguese at Oxford University and a Fellow of St Peter's College.

Reviews:

‘The result is a deft, nuanced and accomplished analysis not only of Pepetela and his most important works, but of contemporary Angola and the way that the MPLA has wielded its power... It is a landmark work of scholarship from one of the field’s most accomplished critics, and essential reading for scholars of Lusophone African cultures, Angolan social history and Luso-Brazilian and African literatures.’ — Lanie Millar, Bulletin of Spanish Studies 97.6, 2020, 1069-1070

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ix-x	Acknowledgements P.R. doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkx8p.3	Cite
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xi-xii	Pepetela’s Principal Works Referenced in This Book Phillip Rothwell doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkx8p.4	Cite
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1-6	Introduction Phillip Rothwell doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkx8p.5	Cite
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7-18	Chapter 1 the Problems of History Or A History of Problems Phillip Rothwell doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkx8p.6	Cite
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19-33	Chapter 2 A Nation of New Men Or the Age-Old Abuse of A Woman’s Body Phillip Rothwell doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkx8p.7	Cite
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34-48	Chapter 3 When the Writer Can Say What the Man Cannot: the Original Sin of 1977 Phillip Rothwell doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkx8p.8	Cite
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49-66	Chapter 4 Ideology, Nationality, Racism and Rape Phillip Rothwell doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkx8p.9	Cite
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67-75	Chapter 5 the Dynamics of Girl Power Or the Selective Process of Myth-Making Phillip Rothwell doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkx8p.10	Cite
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76-85	Chapter 6 the 1990s: Plus Ça Change Phillip Rothwell doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkx8p.11	Cite
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86-94	Chapter 7 Failed Fathers, Phallic Futures and Commodified Children: the Dehumanization of Post-War Angola Phillip Rothwell doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkx8p.12	Cite
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95-105	Chapter 8 the Ethical Challenges of History Phillip Rothwell doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkx8p.13	Cite
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106-117	Chapter 9 the Ethics of Forgiveness Phillip Rothwell doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkx8p.14	Cite
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118-133	Chapter 10 the American Bogeyman: Empire and the Terror Cell Phillip Rothwell doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkx8p.15	Cite
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134-142	Chapter 11 Denationalized Dialogism and the Primordial Thing, Or Reconciling Beyond the Law of Capitalism Phillip Rothwell doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkx8p.16	Cite
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143-160	Chapter 12 the Bourgeoisie, the City and the Loner Phillip Rothwell doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkx8p.17	Cite
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161-161	Afterword Phillip Rothwell doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkx8p.18	Cite
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162-170	Bibliography Phillip Rothwell doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkx8p.19	Cite
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171-178	Index Phillip Rothwell doi:10.2307/j.ctv16kkx8p.20	Cite
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Rothwell, Phillip, Pepetela and the MPLA: The Ethical Evolution of a Revolutionary Writer, Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures, 36 (Legenda, 2019)

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Pepetela and the MPLAThe Ethical Evolution of a Revolutionary Writer

Phillip Rothwell

Pepetela and the MPLA
The Ethical Evolution of a Revolutionary Writer