Literary Review Trends in Mozambique – Jeremiah Langa

This work was originally written as a dissertation to obtain Master's degree by its author. It focuses on the dominant trends of literary criticism in Mozambique and its impact on national cultural dynamics. By mediating between writers and readers, literary criticism thus assumes a reflexive unfolding of the literary work itself, in the sense that it aims to systematically understand everything that enters the process of critical expression. Criticism is therefore a constructive, analytical process. It makes intellectual recognition of the artistic character of a work and defines the criteria for legitimizing literary discourse.

The present book has the ability to analyze, scrutinize and systematize the various schools and tendencies of literary criticism, which manifest themselves in Mozambique, with a greater focus on journalistic criticism and university, for its most prominent role in intermediation with readers.

The press, a space of circulation and democratization of ideas, is a privileged place for literary criticism to exert a kind of approximation between writers, literary production and readers. For this reason, this book devotes a remarkable space to the approach of the historical relationship established between literary criticism and journalism in Mozambique, highlighting the role of newspapers as the mediation space between the critic and the reader, and the role of literary journalism in the dissemination and nationalist and cultural formation of Mozambicans, especially in the colonial period and in the first decade of national independence.