Refereed Academic Publications (Articles in Journals)
“Symbolical Recreations of “Wholeness”: Memory, Mourning, Nostalgia and Counter-Nostalgia of the Colonial in Karen Blixen and Isabela Figueiredo.” Portuguese Studies Review, Volume 27 (1), 2019. 135-176.
“Suspending the ‘Lack’ Through Art: African and Western Epistemological and Artistic Intersections (Mia Couto, Wole Soyinka, Léopold Senghor, Gaston Bachelard and Mark Epstein).” African Studies. Volume 27, 2018 – Issue 1. 127-144. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00020184.2018.1426310
“Looking for ‘God’ in Non-Identity: Reading the Transcendental in Agualusa’s The Book of Chameleons.” InterDISCIPLINARY: Journal of Portuguese Diaspora Studies. Volume 5, 2017. 59-90. https://journals.library.brocku.ca/index.php/ijpds/article/view/3253
“The Way/s of ‘Poetry’: The Contracting and Expanding Self in the Writing of Mia Couto.” JALA: Journal of the African Literature Association. Volume 9, No. 2 Summer/Fall 2015. 75-111. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21674736.2015.11728726
Confused ‘Slaves’ of Many Traditions: The Search for the Freedom Dance in Chiziane’s Niketche: A Tale of Polygamy.” Research in African Literatures. SUMMER 2010, Vol. 41, No. 2. Indiana University Press. 133-159. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/ral.2010.41.2.133
“The Mirror of Colonial Trauma in Honwana’s Short Stories: The ‘Eye’ that Accuses and Incites.” African Identities: Journal of Economics, Culture and Society, Vol. 6, No. 2, May 2008. Routledge, Taylor & Francis. 127-147. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14725840801933957?journalCode=cafi20
“Mia Couto and the Holistic Choric Self: Recreating the Broken Cosmic Order (Or: Relearning the Song that Truly Speaks.” Journal of African Literature and Culture, N 4. The International Research Confederacy on African Literature and Culture (IRCALC). Ed. Charles Smith. Tema, Ghana: Progeny International, 2007. 101-124. https://www.africaresearch.org/Papers/J075Irn.pdf
“Postcolonial African Consciousness and the Poetry of Agostinho Neto.” CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal. 5.4 (December 2003), Purdue University Press. https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/vol5/iss4/3/
Refereed Academic Publications (Chapters in Books/Collectives)
“Female Resistance and Engagement: Combating Intersecting Powers of Colonialisms and Patriarchies in Mia Couto’s Woman of the Ashes.” The Worlds of Mia Couto. Ed. Kristian Van Haesendonck. New York: Peter Lang. 2020. INVITED. https://www.peterlang.com/document/1057385
“Debunking Racial, Ethnic and Cultural Essentialisms: Miscegenation/s and the Call toward Global and Cosmic Citizenship in Mia Couto’s The Other Foot of The Mermaid.” African, Lusophone, and Afro-Hispanic Cultural Dialogue, Eds Yaw Agawu-Kakraba and Komla Aggor. Cambridge Scholars Publishing: 2018. 27-58. https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-0765-4
“Spaces of Magic: Couto’s Relational Practices.” A Companion to Mia Couto. Eds Grant Hamilton and David Huddart. Suffolk: James Currey: 2016. 64-85. https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781847011459/a-companion-to-mia-couto/
“Washing by the River.” An original feminist fairy tale and an interpretative essay (‘Can the Butterfly Fly?: A Reading of Aniashinta’s Story’) about the tale. The Fairy Godmentor's Advice for Women Like Us: Life Lessons from Educated Women. Ed. Judith A. Spector. Indiana: Authorhouse, 2010. 75-110. https://www.amazon.com/Fairy-Godmentors-Advice-Women-Like/dp/1449066720
“The Works of Chin Che: A Critical Overview.” The Works of Chin Ce: Critical Supplement (A)1. Nigeria: Handel Books; Oxford: African Books Collective, 2008. 11-36. http://www.africaresearch.org/Papers/CsIr.pdf
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