Hi, I am a Portuguese Ph.D. student in Portuguese Studies at the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures of The University of Manchester, under the supervision of Professor Hilary Owen.
In 2003, I was awarded a B.A. (Hons) degree in Modern Languages and Literature, English and Portuguese Studies from the University of Coimbra (Portugal). I went on to complete a Masters degree at the University of Manchester (UK), which was awarded (with distinction) in 2005. A revised version of my dissertation was published in the form of an article: ‘At the heart of violence: ‘Gender, exoticism and war in Paulina Chiziane’s Ventos do Apocalipse and Lídia Jorge’s A Costa dos Murmúrios’.
The title of my PhD project is “The ‘postcolonial exotic’ in the work of Paulina Chiziane and Lídia Jorge”. I expect to finish this project by September 2009.
My PhD project develops comparative views of women's writing from Mozambique and Portugal, paying particular attention to the way in which Mozambican writer Paulina Chiziane and Portuguese writer Lídia Jorge respond to global and local structures of consumption of the value of marginality and cultural difference by drawing on gender and sexual difference in their novels.
In 2003, I was awarded a B.A. (Hons) degree in Modern Languages and Literature, English and Portuguese Studies from the University of Coimbra (Portugal). I went on to complete a Masters degree at the University of Manchester (UK), which was awarded (with distinction) in 2005. A revised version of my dissertation was published in the form of an article: ‘At the heart of violence: ‘Gender, exoticism and war in Paulina Chiziane’s Ventos do Apocalipse and Lídia Jorge’s A Costa dos Murmúrios’.
The title of my PhD project is “The ‘postcolonial exotic’ in the work of Paulina Chiziane and Lídia Jorge”. I expect to finish this project by September 2009.
My PhD project develops comparative views of women's writing from Mozambique and Portugal, paying particular attention to the way in which Mozambican writer Paulina Chiziane and Portuguese writer Lídia Jorge respond to global and local structures of consumption of the value of marginality and cultural difference by drawing on gender and sexual difference in their novels.
