A Incompletude do Processo de Disciplinarização das Literaturas Africanas

Luís Kandjimbo

doi:10.21471/jls.v1i2.121

Luís Kandjimbo Universidade Gregório Semedo/Universidade Agostinho Neto

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21471/jls.v1i2.121

Keywords: African literary criticismo, disciplinarization, epistemology, African literary Studies, African literatures

Abstract

In the present essay, I propose a meta-theoretical and interdisciplinary articulation of themes and problems that point to the need for African literary comparativism. In particular, I examine the controversies that have emerged in the theories and criticism devoted to African literatures in light of the debates that likewise took place in African philosophy. The key concept with which I operate is disciplinarization; this is due to its potential for explaining the incomplete nature of the process that might lead to the integration of African Literary Studies or African Literatures in the current disciplinary system.

Author Biography

Luís Kandjimbo, Universidade Gregório Semedo/Universidade Agostinho Neto

Luís Kandjimbo is Professor at the School of Social Sciences and Chair of the Portuguese Department at Universidade Gregório Semedo (Luanda, Angola) and Professor of Graduate Studies of the School of Social Sciences at Universidade Agostinho Neto. He is a researcher at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa and member of the UNESCO editorial board for the ninth volume of the General History of Africa.